Texts Used for this Unit

American Chemical Society, (1993) ChemCom: Chemistry in the Community, Kendall-Hunt, Dubuque, IA.

Nash, Gary B.(1994) American Odyssey: The United States in the Twentieth Century, Glencoe Division, Macmillian/McGraw-Hill, Westerville, OH.

Rubenstein,Rheta N., et. al., (1995)Integrated Mathematics, vol. 2. McDougal Littel/Houghton Mifflin, Inc., Boston, MA.

Watson, George W.(1991) McDougal, Littell Economics, McDougal, Littell and Co., Evanstan IL.

Wright, Richard (1944, 1993) Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood, HarperCollins Publisher, Inc., New York, NY.

Content References

American Chemical Society
http://www.acs.org/education/curriculum/chemcom.html

ChemCom: Chemistry in the Community: ChemCom Home page
http://www.lapeer.lib.mi.us/ChemCom

USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl

USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center: Food Composition
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/000020.html

Richard Wright: Black Boy PBS special
http://www.pbs.org/rwbb/rwtoc.html

Richard Wright: Black Boy; A Teacher's Guide for Secondary and Post Secondary Educators based on the documentary. (Contains extensive bibliography)
http://www.newsreel.org/guides/richardw.htm

Selected links to related Standards:

Principles and Standards for School Mathematics published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
http://standards.nctm.org/protoFINAL/cover.html

National Science Education Standards: Ch. 6 Science Content Standards published by the National Academy of Sciences
http://books.nap.edu/html/nses/html/6a.html

Standards for the English Language Arts sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association.
http://www.ncte.org/standards/standards.shtml

Curriculum Standards for Social Studies by National Council for the Social Studies
http://www.ncss.org/standards/toc.html

National Standards for United States History published by National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA, Dept. of History
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/us-toc.htm

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