Inquiry, in general:

• "Step Across This Line," Salman Rushdie. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Yale, 2002 (published in Step Across This Line, Salman Rushdie, Random House, New York, 2002.

Evaluation of internet resources

• http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/Healey-adventus-internetus
• http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
• http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm (annotated list of related sites)

Chemistry in daily life

• Prometheans in the Lab, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001 (chapters on topics including soap, lead, DDT, sugar)

Sugar substitutes

• http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1200762,00.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/business/15sugar.html?ex=1273809600&en=e2a38211d6221667&ei=5088
• http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2611_v124/ai_18232464
• "Does This Goo Make You Groan?" Melanie Warner, New York Times, July 2, 2006 (Sunday Business, Section 3)
• "The Search for Sweet" Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, May 22, 2006, page 40

Ideas from Access Excellence (http://www.accessexcellence.org/index.html)

Resources for topics in bioethics

• http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/IE/

Chemistry-related resources

• Elements with Biological Roles (good or bad for you?)
• Chemistry of Health (chemistry helps and hurts)

Other ideas related to bioethics

• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, HarperPerennial, New York, 1st published in 1932
• Gattaca (1997), film

Polymer/plastic websites

• http://pslc.ws/macrog/kidsmac/index.htm Lots of excellent links, including a "polymer mall" with information about everyday polymers you may not even know about
• http://www.plastics.ca/teachers/ Canadian website with information, links, and teaching resources

Basics of DNA, genes, heredity

• http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/

Wondernet: Chemistry Activities for the classroom. An excellent collection of simple chemistry activities and experiments

• http://www.acs.org/portal/a/c/s/1/wondernetdisplay.html?DOC=wondernet%5Cindex.html

Countertop Chemistry: Wonderful resource for simple and effective chemistry activities and experiments

• http://www.science-house.org/learn/CountertopChem/index.html

A collection of experiments and demonstrations in chemistry. Topics focus on key areas of chemistry curriculum: the periodic table, chemical reactions, kinetics, etc.

• http://www.flinnsci.com/Sections/Chemistry/chemTopicLabs.asp

A scientifically accurate account of chance and revolutionary scientific discoveries (written for non-experts).

• Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science (Paperback) by Royston M. Roberts (Wiley, 1989)

Wonder Science ­ collection of hands-on activities using cheap, readily available materials for 3rd to 6th grade levels

• http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education%5Ccurriculum%5Cwondsci.html