REFERENCE BOOKS MADE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS DURING THE SUBATOMIC PARTICLE CURRICULUM UNIT:
This author currently teaches in a school district where most students show respect for the personal property of a teacher. During the subatomic curriculum unit, the author keeps several of his personal reference books on the front cabinet in his classroom. The books have been selected, in most cases, for their photos and diagrams. Additionally, many of these books have information in them which relates directly to the cosmic ray video, the cloud chamber lab, the supernova video or to the AMANDA Project neutrino research. Students are encouraged by this author to use the books during cooperative learning group project time or after school. As of this writing, the author's book selection includes the following:
"THE PARTICLE EXPLOSION" , by Frank Close, Michael Martin, & Christine Sutton, 1994, Oxford University Press Inc., New York .
"PHYSICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" , by Curt Supplee; edited by Judy R. Franz and John Rigden, 1999, American Institute of Physics/American Physical Society, published in 1999 by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York.
"SHADOW
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THE NEUTRINO STORY OF SUPERNOVA 1987A" , by
Alfred A. Mann, 1997, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York.
"THE ELUSIVE NEUTRINO A SUBATOMIC DETECTIVE STORY" , by Nickolas Solomey, 1997, Scientific American Library, New York.
"FROM QUARKS TO THE COSMOS TOOLS OF DISCOVERY" , by Leon m. Lederman and David N. Schramm, 1995, Scientific American Library, New York.
"A SHORT HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE" , by Joseph Silk, 1994, Scientific American Library, New York.
"COSMIC CLOUDS BIRTH, DEATH, AND RECYCLING IN THE GALAXY" , by James B. Kaler, 1997, Scientific American Library, New York.
"THE CASE OF THE MISSING NEUTRINOS AND OTHER CURIOUS PHENOMENA OF THE UNIVERSE", by John Gribbin, 1998, Fromm International, New York.
"ARE THERE REALLY NEUTRINOS? AN EVIDENTIAL HISTORY", by Allan Franklin, 2000, Perseus Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts.