This guide is a listing of recommended materials and is organized below into six categories.
Materials include those related to the topic of Reproduction and Embryological Development, the references given to us by speakers, and miscellaneous resources that participants have found helpful.

Books
Articles
Videos
Lab Kits and Instructional Aids
Web Sites
Software
 
 

BOOKS

 Evolution of Sex  Michod, Levin   1988

Experiments in Animal Development  Merriman, Robert W.
        ISBN #  0-87893-525-8
         Lab Book with suggestions for developmental studies.  Students are given information
        and then write their experiment.  (Advanced)

A Child is Born:  Lennart Nilsson    Hamberger, Lars
        ISBN # 0-440-5069103
        Dell Publishing
        Pictures by the photographer of "Miracle of Life"--Presents many aspects of conception
            and birth.

Issues in Science    Newton, David
     Examining ethics activities, many of which apply to fertilization, development, and related topics.
 
Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects  (1991)
Wynbrandt, James and Ludman, Mark
Facts on File Inc.
460 Park Ave. South
NY,  NY  10016

The Red Queen:  Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature      Ridley, Matt
    Macmillan Publishing Co. 866 Third Ave., NY  10022  (1993)
   Very good, accessible description of the "sexual paradox" as discussed in our lectures.
    Considers the reasons for the development/ evolution of sex and focuses on humans.
    Good examples for use in classes.
 
Developmental Biology: A Guide for Experimental Study    Tyler, Mary A.
    ISBN 0-87893-834-6
    Sinauer Associated, Inc. Publishers
    23 Plumtree Rd
    Sunderland, Ma 01375-0407
    Fax: (413) 549 1118
    email- publish@sinauer.com
    *Recommended by Dr. Cronkite.  Lab manual with experimental design for using fruit flies,
    chicks, slime molds, planarians, and amphibians.
 
 
Joyful Origami Fuse, Tomoko
     Japan Publications Trading Co., Tokyo  1996

     Construct 3 and 4 part (or more) origami boxes to demonstrate ENZYME STRUCTURE-
     subunit assembly.  Many combinations depending on how you put the pieces together.
 

 Hydroponics for Everyone   Sutherland, S.K.
    Hyland House Publishing
    Melbourne, 1995

    Build a simple (complex too) hydroponics setup to grow plants for any type of experiment,
    for study, or for the study of hydroponics and ecology.  Also gives instructions for setting up
    an aquaponics system to grow plants and fish at the same time by recycling nutrients.

Hydoponics--Soilless Gardening   Nichols, R.
    Running Press
    Philadelphia     1990

 Hydroponic Home Food Gardens    Resh, H.
    Woodbridge Press Publishing Co.
    Santa Barbara     1992
 
 
Growlab-Resource Book
    National Gardening Association
    This resource is designed for elementary to middle school, however, you can tailor is to fit
    your needs and modify it for your high school class.  It gives great starting ideas for botany.
 
A Classroom Guide to Yeast  Genetics     Manney, Tom et al.
    GENE Project, Dept of Physics
    116 Cardwell Hall,
    Kansas St University
    Manhattan, KS  66506-2601

Cranial Creations    Welsh, J.H.
    Variety of great, hands-on, cooperative learning activities; including a number of developmental
     experiences.
 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Deals with a variety of neurological aberrations such as autism in an easy to understand and entertaining manner.
e-mail Linda Hall at shall@seidata.com for more info.

The Medical Detectives
Each chapter concerns an epidemiological search for the source of mysterious ailments.  For example, one chapter dearl with a trichinosis problem- another with the "orange man" --to much beta carotene.
e-mail Linda Hall at shall@seidata.com for more info.
 
 
 ARTICLES

"Exoskeletons out of the Closet"  Science Nov 8, 1996

References listed by Marc Roy
"Genetically Triggered Sexual Differentiation of Brain and Behavior"  Arnold A.
       Hormones and Behavior  30:495-496 (1996)

"From Fertilization to Adult Sexual Behavior"  Diamond, M.  Binstock, T, Kohl J
       Hormones and Behavior  30: 333-353  (1996)

"The Organizational Concept and Vertebrates without Sex Hormones"  Crews, D.
       Brain Behavior and Sexual Evolution  42: 208-214  (1993)

 
 
 VIDEO (TAPE AND DISK)

A Dozen Eggs
    Editor:  Rachel Fink                                    Society for Developmental Biology
    Sinaur Associates                                        ISBN 0-87893-181-3
    Sunderland, MA  01375
Used by Dr. Cronkite to show sea urchin egg development.
Great footage but he felt $60 price tag too expensive, wrote to company.

Gypsy Moth: A Balanced Perspective  (18 min)
    USDA- Forest Service
    Southern Region
    Forest Pest Management  1991
Used by Carol Bernon in her explanation of gypsy moths.

How Babies Get Made
NOVA
Embryogenesis of variety of organisms, including Drosophila, C. elegans, and humans

C. elegans Videos
Caenorhabditis Genetics Center
Gartner Ave.
University of Minnesota
St. Paul,  MN  55108
Contact:  Theresa Sternagle
Source for C. elegans strains, videos, and other resources given to us by Phil Meneeley.

Theories on the Origin of Life (15 min)
     Encyclopedia Brittanica

Lorenzo’s Oil
    MCA Universal (Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon)  1992
     Academy Award winning film about a child with ALD and his parents fight to
             save his life.
         *Also see lab from 1994 Woodrow Wilson…                                     http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/biology/institutes/1994/adreno.html

Menstruation: Understanding Your Body
Produced by the American Medical Communications.  Part of the Women’s
Health Series.  The video is 30 minutes long and discusses female reproduction
            and the menstrual cycle.  Also deals with teen sexuality.

Decoding the Book of Life
 Nova.  Produced by Jon Palfreman
 1 hour
 This video discusses genetic engineering and cure to genetic diseases.  The
 human genome project is also discussed

The Miracle of Life
 1 hour
 Movie goes from the first cell to the birth of a child.

Look Who’s Talking
 The first 5 minutes of this movie has a great animated segment on fertilization.
 Available at any video store
 
 The Secret of the Sexes
Nova- 1 hour
Begins at the birth of a child and discusses how boys and girls are raised and stereotyped.  Based in the late 70’s and early 80’s.  Discusses personality
development and behavior studies.

The Secret of Life
4 part series with 2 segments in each part.  Each segment is 1 hour long (8 hrs   total)
 Part 1: Evolution, Accidents of Creation, Darwin, Genetic Evolution, Genetic
  Diversity
 Part 2: Birth, Sex and Death
 Part 3: Conquering Cancer
 Part 4: Biotechnology
 
 Hosted by David Suzuki and produced by WGBH Boston and BBC-TV.
 Available in book form "The Secret of Life," by Joseph Levine and David Suzuki.
 The only address I could find for the video was the transcript address.  They may
 know where to purchase copies of the video.  It was on public television sometime
 in 1994.
      Transcript Address
      Journal Graphics
      1535 Grant Street
      Denver, Colorado 80203
      (303) 831-9000
This series is very good and has many topics that are of interest in evolution, genetic, biotechnology and developmental biology.

Gene Hunters
     Assignment Discovery
      Discovery Channel
      7700 Wisconsin Ave.
      Bethesda, Md 20814
 Very well done.  The Human Genome Diversity Project has gathered samples
 from endangered tribes from around the world.
 *Deals with the ethical issue of who benefits when a cure to disease is found
 from DNA collected from endangered tribes.

Winding Your Way Through DNA
  Cold Spring Harbor Labs
 Interviews with scientists Watson & Crick, and Boyer and Cohen (The founders
 of Genentec).  Discusses genetic engineering and insulin manufacture.
 
Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
    Carolina Biological
    Excellent for pollination vectors.  Great footage of unusual ways flowers are pollinated by
    wasps, bees, and birds.
 
Genetics
Laser disc from Videodiscovery, Seattle, WA
 
Digestion:  It Takes Guts
Excellent for use in the study of the digestive tract.  It's informative and entertaining.
e.mail Linda Hall for more info.  shall@seidata.com

 
 
LAB KITS AND INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS
Caenorhabditis Genetics Center
Gartner Ave.
University of Minnesota
St. Paul,  MN  55108
Contact:  Theresa Sternagle
Source for C. elegans strains, videos, and other resources given to us by Phil Meneeley.
 

Experiments in Animal Development  Merriman, Robert W.
        ISBN #  0-87893-525-8
    Lab Book with suggestions for developmental studies.  Students are given information  and then write their experiment.  (Advanced)

Get each of the following, which has a booklet and a slide show FREE  (20 booklets) to use in your classes!
Understanding the Immune System
Understanding Gene Testing
    Office of Cancer Research          1 800- 4CANCER
    National Cancer Inst                    1 800-422-6237
    Building 31, Room 10A28
    31 Center Drive MSC 2580
    Bethesda, MD  20892-2580

Chances Choices
    Foundation for Blood Research
    PO Box 190
    Scarborough, Maine  04870-0190
This is a set of 12 episodes in the lives of a fictitious family with genetic conditions.  There is a great deal of background information included plus questions and suggested projects that can be used to discuss moral and ethical aspects of genetic testing, counseling, etc.
Cost: $50

BIO-RAD
    1-800-424-6723
Colony transformation lab that allows E. coli to glow and to isolate the protein with column chromatography.

Cell Biology—46 Modules dealing with cell biology.
Worth Publishers
33 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003
1-800-223-1715
 
 
WEBSITES
 Fish Net
    http://zfish.uoregon.edu/
Everything you ever wanted to know about zebra fish maintenance, and uses in lab.
Links to all the other important zebra fish sites.

The Biology Place
    http://biology/com
This website is edited, allows for interactive exercises, linked selected websites, tutorial, and Scientific American articles.

http://eatworms.swmed.edu
Worm web page- for info about C. elegans.

Cell Alive!  --Great cell biology site.
    http://www.comet.chv.va.us/

National Science Foundation
    http://www.nsf.gov/
 
 National Center for Science Education (NCSE)
    http://www.natcenscied.org/
   (Includes Supreme Court Decisions relating to Evolution )

National Association of Biology Teachers  (NABT)
   http://www.nabt.org/

Bio-Rad
    http://www.biorad.com
All about glowing bacteria transfomations and much more.

Access Excellence
    http://www.gene.com/ae/

National Science Education Standards
    http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/msds/

NASA
    http://www.nasa.gov

Science Education Association
    http://science.coe.vwf.edu/

Cockroach World (Includes lots of insect stuff)
    http://www.nj.com/yucky/

Biodiversity/ Biological Collections
    http://muse.bio.cornell.edu

Mosquito genomics
     http://klab.agsci.colostate.edu
     http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/www_sites.html

Virtual Cell
    http://ampere/scale.vive.edu/~m-lexa/cell/cell.html

Bugs on the Web
    http://bugs.vah.ualberta.ca.webbug/index.htm
Articles and facts about microbiology.  Good graphics.

Tibolium Home Page
    http://bru.usgmrl.ksu.edu/beeman/tribolium.html
Provides information regarding raising and handling Red Flour Beetles.  Includes info about their life cycle.

BIOQUEST  Genetics Construction Kit  (for Mac)
    http://terrapin.umd.edu/
 This includes the genetics simulation software that we worked with in lab.

1994 Genetics Woodrow Wilson Website
    http://www.woodrow.org/teacher/biology/institutes/1994/
        Includes…
 -Life cycles of fruit fly
 -Inheritance Patterns
 -Molecular Genetics
 -Molecular Disease and Counseling/ Bioethics
 -And multimedia in the classroom
 
 httm://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/
Intercultural e-mail classroom connections
Free service to help classes and teachers link with partners in other countries and cultures
 for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.  Provided by St. Olaf College.
 
 http://bio1.bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp:8000/
Medakafish homepage
Contains introductory remarks, culturing techniques, and a complete staging sequence with excellent diagrams.

http://130.69.100.13/SPACEMEDAKA/E.html
Interesting information regarding experiments on the U.S. Space Shuttle in which Medaka breed and reproduce in space-the first vertebrates to do so!!!

http://www-leland.stanford.edu?group/Urchin/
Sea Urchin Education
An invaluble resource with a variety of activities on sea urchin embryology.  A sense of animations can also be downloaded.
 
 
 

SOFTWARE
BIOQUEST  Genetics Construction Kit  (for Mac)
http:terrapin.umd.edu/bioquest_library.html
 This includes the genetics simulation software that we worked with in lab.

Embryo: CD-Color Atlas for Developmental Biology
(For both Windows and Mac)
Prentice Hall
www.prenhall.com
ISBN# 0-13-594011-7

Includes serial sections, time-lapse movies, real-time movies of normal and experimental embryos and animations.   Includes video of frog, chicks, pigs, and gametogenesis.
 

Vernier Interfacing Equipment and Software
8565 S.W.  Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy
Portland, Oregon  97225-2429
(503)297-5317
Fax (503) 297-1760
 
 Logal Genetics
Logal Software Company
Boston, (or Cambridge) MA
Wonderful genetics simulation-can perform simple Mendelian crosses through sex-linked, multiple allele, and polygenic inheritance simulations.  You can also design your own studies.  Good for use with intro kids to AP.  Excellent graphics, good documentation, good handouts and activities.
         $200- single computer        $ 1200--site license.