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• 1.4.1 Web Media: PBS’s Evolution Library: “Evolving Ideas: How Does Evolution Really Work?”

  Link: PBS’s Evolution Library: “Evolving Ideas: How Does Evolution Really Work?” (Quicktime or Realplayer)
   
  Also available at:
  YouTube
   
  Instructions: On this web page, choose either QuickTime or Real Player (QuickTime seems to work best) under the text “View in.” This will provide you with an excellent description of the processes of natural selection.
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 10 minutes.
   
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• 1.4.2 Web Media: The Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures for Children: Richard Dawkins, excerpt from “Growing Up in the Universe,” Episode #3, “Climbing Mount Improbable”

  Link: The Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures for Children: Richard Dawkins, excerpt from “Growing Up in the Universe,” Episode #3, “Climbing Mount Improbable” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Click the above link and the video will begin. This is an informative and entertaining look at how sensory systems can evolve by natural selection.
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 15 minutes.
   
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• 1.4.3 Web Media: TED Talks: Beau Lotto’s “Optical Illusions Show How We See”

  Link: TED Talks: Beau Lotto’s “Optical Illusions Show How We See” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Also available in:
  Quicktime
   
  Instructions: Click the above link and the video will begin. Be sure you have a good idea about how illusions, which are really failures of our visual system, provide information on how the system works.
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 20 minutes.
   
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• 1.4.4 Web Media: NPR’s series, The Human Edge: “From Primitive Parts: A Highly Evolved Human Brain”

  Link: NPR’s series, The Human Edge: “From Primitive Parts: A Highly Evolved Human Brain” (HTML)
   
  Also available in:
  Adobe Flash Audio
  Mp3
   
  Instructions: Read the article listed above in the link. It is a text transcript of an interview also available as audio on the website. Additionally, you may click the “Listen to the Story” link to listen to the audio. Pay close attention to the discussion of how our brains have evolved into incredibly complex structures.
   
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• 3.1.1 Web Media: YouTube: Derek Owens’ “Physical Science 7.3a – The Nature of Light”

  Link: YouTube: Derek Owens’ “Physical Science 7.3a – The Nature of Light” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to YouTube and start the video. This will introduce you to what light is and how it is measured.
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 5 minutes.
   
  Terms of Use: The linked material above has been reposted by the kind permission of Derek Owens  through his website and can be viewed in its original form here. Please note that this material is under copyright and cannot be reproduced in any capacity without explicit permission from the copyright holder.

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• 3.1.1 Web Media: YouTube: Derek Owens’ “Physical Science 7.3b – Light Waves Part 1”

  Link: YouTube: Derek Owens’ “Physical Science 7.3b – Light Waves Part 1” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to YouTube and start the video. It is very important that you understand the wave properties of light and other types of electromagnetic energy.
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 10 minutes.
   
  Terms of Use: The linked material above has been reposted by the kind permission of Derek Owens  through his website and can be viewed in its original form here. Please note that this material is under copyright and cannot be reproduced in any capacity without explicit permission from the copyright holder.

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• 3.1.1 Web Media: YouTube: Derek Owens’ “Physical Science 7.3c – Light Waves Part 2”

  Link: YouTube: Derek Owens’ “Physical Science 7.3c – Light Waves Part 2” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to YouTube and start the video. Be sure you understand how light waves are a “disturbance” in the surrounding energy.
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 5 minutes.
   
  Terms of Use: The linked material above has been reposted by the kind permission of Derek Owens through his website and can be viewed in its original form here. Please note that this material is under copyright and cannot be reproduced in any capacity without explicit permission from the copyright holder.

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• 3.1.1 Web Media: YouTube: Derek Owens’ “Physical Science 7.3d – Is Light a Particle?”

  Link: YouTube: Derek Owens’ “Physical Science 7.3d – Is Light a Particle?” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to YouTube and start the video. Is light a wave or a particle? This video introduces you to the “controversy.”
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 6 minutes.
   
  Terms of Use: The linked material above has been reposted by the kind permission of Derek Owens through his website and can be viewed in its original form here. Please note that this material is under copyright and cannot be reproduced in any capacity without explicit permission from the copyright holder.

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• 3.1.1 Web Media: Derek Owens’ “Physical Science 7.3e – The Double Slit Experiment”

  Link: Derek Owens’ “Physical Science 7.3e – The Double Slit Experiment”
  
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to YouTube and start the video. This video describes how light operates at a subatomic level.
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 11 minutes.
   
  Terms of Use: The linked material above has been reposted by the kind permission of Derek Owens through his website and can be viewed in its original form here. Please note that this material is under copyright and cannot be reproduced in any capacity without explicit permission from the copyright holder..

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• 3.1.2 Web Media: YouTube: Cassiopeia Project’s “Photon”

  Link: YouTube: Cassiopeia Project’s “Photon”
   
  Also available in:
  iTunes U
  Quicktime
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to YouTube and start the video. Photons are the “carriers” of electromagnetism.
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 1 minute.
   
  Terms of Use: This video has been available in the public domain.

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• 3.1.4 Web Media: YouTube: “The Electromagnetic Spectrum”

  Link: YouTube: “The Electromagnetic Spectrum” (YouTube)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to YouTube and start the video. Be sure you understand that visible light is just a small “slice” of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 3 minutes.
   
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• 3.1.6 Web Media: Molecular Expressions’ “Basic Electromagnetic Wave Properties”

  Link: Molecular Expressions’ “Basic Electromagnetic Wave Properties” (HTML)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to the website. In the animation, use the sliders to see the relationship between frequency, wavelength, color, and intensity. Think about how changes in these quantities change your perception of the colors.
   
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• 3.3.1 Web Media: LensShopper.com’s “Anatomy of the Eye”

  Link: LensShopper.com’s “Anatomy of the Eye” (Adobe Flash and HTML)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to the web page. On the diagram of the human eye, click each labeled structure and, in turn, read the description.
   
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• 3.6.1 Web Media: Pearson Education’s “LIVE!Psych: A Tour Through the Human Eye”

  Link: Pearson Education’s “LIVE!Psych: A Tour Through the Human Eye” (Shockwave)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to the web page. The animation has eight (8) parts. You may skip directly to part #5 and watch parts #5 – #8. Alternatively, watch all eight (8) parts for an excellent review of the structure of the eye.
   
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• 3.9.2 Web Media: Sumanas, Inc.’s “Receptive Fields in the Retina”

  Link: Sumanas, Inc.’s “Receptive Fields in the Retina” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to the web page. Choose the “Narrated” or “Step-Through” link to view the animation.
   
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• 3.9.3 Web Media: Sumanas, Inc.’s “Visual Pathways in the Human Brain”

  Link: Sumanas, Inc.’s “Visual Pathways in the Human Brain” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to the web page. Choose the “Narrated” or “Step-Through” link to view the animation.
   
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• 4.7 Web Media: Michael Bach’s “88 Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions”

  Link: Michael Bach’s “88 Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions” (HTML and Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to the web page. Explore and enjoy the many visual illusions and interesting effects. Read the explanations for each, and relate this to what you have learned about the visual system.
   
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• 5.3.3 Web Media: University of Pennsylvania Health System’s Medical Animation Library’s “Hearing and the cochlea”

  Link: University of Pennsylvania Health System’s Medical Animation Library’s “Hearing and the cochlea” (HTML and Quicktime)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to watch the animation.
   
  Terms of Use: Please respect the copyright and terms of use included on the above webpage and document.

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• 5.3.4 Web Media: Sumanas, Inc.’s “Sound Transduction”

  Link: Sumanas, Inc.’s “Sound Transduction” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to the web page. Choose the “Narrated” or “Step-Through” link to view the animation. Although the first parts of the animation are redundant to other subunits, please view it in its entirety.
   
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• 5.4.1 Web Media: The Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience’s “Cochlear Travelling Wave”

  Link: The Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience’s “Cochlear Travelling Wave” (HTML and Quicktime)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to the web page and watch the animation. NOTE: This reading applies subsections 5.4.1-5.4.2.
   
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• 5.4.3 Web Media: YouTube: Brandon Pletsch’s “Auditory Transduction”

  Link: YouTube: Brandon Pletsch’s “Auditory Transduction” (YouTube)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to YouTube and start the video. 
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 8 minutes.
   
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• 6.1.3 Web Media: LearnersTV’s “The Sense of Taste”

  Link: LearnersTV’s “The Sense of Taste” (Shockwave)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to the web page and watch the animation.
   
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• 6.3.1 Web Media: Sumanas, Inc.’s “Receptors in the Skin”

  Link: Sumanas, Inc.’s “Receptors in the Skin” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to the web page. Choose the “Narrated” or “Step-Through” link to view the animation.
   
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• 6.3.5 Web Media: Neuroscience for Kids’ “Your Really Weird Body Map.”

  Link: Neuroscience for Kids’ “Your Really Weird Body Map.” (Flash)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to the web page and watch the animation.
   
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• 7.2 Web Media: YouTube: Peter Vishton's “Development of Infant Visual Tracking. Activity 1” from “What Babies Can Do: An Activity-Based Guide to Infant Development”

  Link: YouTube: Peter Vishton's “Development of Infant Visual Tracking. Activity 1” (YouTube) from “What Babies Can Do: An Activity-Based Guide to Infant Development”
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to YouTube and start the video. 
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 7 minutes.
   
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• 7.2 Web Media: YouTube: BBC’s “Baby Synapse Connection”

  Link: YouTube: BBC’s “Baby Synapse Connection” (YouTube)
   
  Instructions: Click the link above to navigate to YouTube and start the video. 
  
  Watching this video should take approximately 5 minutes.
   
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