Resources

• Articles
  
  
  • Common Ground - Evolution vs. Young Earth and Intelligent Design Creationism in Ohio's Public School Curriculum: Finding the Common Ground
  • Letter with extensive resource references - Steven A. Edinger to Ohio Board of Education
  • Life's Grand Design, an analysis of intelligent design theory by Kenneth R. Miller.
  • Darwin's Black Box, reviewed by Kenneth R. Miller.
  • The Elusive Evidence for Intelligent Design, by George W Gilchrist.
  • Design and Its Critics: Yet Another ID Conference, by Jeff Otto with Andrew Petto.
  • Natural Selection, a Beginner's Guide, by Patricia Princehouse.
  • A Summary of Objections to "Intelligent Design", by Jack Krebs.
  • A critical discussion of Jonathan Wells' book, "Icons of Evolution"
  • A critical analysis of Web links that are likely to come up if students search for evolution sites based on the flawed 10-23 lesson plan, by Thomas Baillieul.
  • A critique of the approved lesson plan for lesson 10-23, prepared by Richard Hoppe and other OCS members.
  
  
  
• Lesson Plans
  
  
  • Speciation Lesson - Teacher Version (MS Word)
  • Speciation Lesson - Student Version (MS Word)
  • Supplemental PowerPoint for the Lesson Plan: How New Species Form
  • OCS's alternate lesson plan for lesson 10-23, prepared by Steve Rissing, Patricia Princehouse, and other OCS members.
  
  
  
• Documents
  
  
  • The Wedge Strategy, Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture.
  • The Many Faces of Anti-Evolution, Anti-Evolution, The Critics Resource
  • Voices for Evolution, an extensive list of religious organizatons that support the teaching of evolution.
  
  
  
• Links
  
  
  • The Talk Origins Archive, Evolutionists Refute Creationism
  • Kansas Citizens for Science, pro-science group in Kansas that helped restore evolution to the science curriculum.
  • The National Center for Science Education, non-profit group dedicated to protecting evolution education.
  • The Geological Society of America, GSA Evolution and Creationism Position Statement.
  • New Mexicans for Science and Reason, Pro Science group in New Mexico.
  • Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education, Pro education group in New Mexico.
  • Evolution, selected papers and commentary.
  
  
  
• PowerPoint
  
  
  • Supplemental PowerPoint for the Lesson Plan: How New Species Form
  • Evolution and Creationism in Ohio's Public School Curriculum
  
  
  
• Topics of Interest
  
  
  • Ohio's Monster Trilobites, ancient life right here in Ohio.
  • North Coast Fossil Club, of Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Caesar Creek State Park, offers guided fossil hunting excursions for kids & adults, including special trilobite hunts.