Read a Book! (125 EXP each)
Pick a chapter from one of the following books to write a Reading Reflection about. Copies of each book can be found at the IRC or your local public library. Links to Amazon are included here, but, of course, no purchase is necessary.
Any student with a B or lower may access these assignments for extra credit, but they will not be accepted for points if the student already has an A.
You may submit one reading reflection per chapter but are welcome to submit multiple reading reflections per book. Limit 4 per week
Pick a chapter from one of the following books to write a Reading Reflection about. Copies of each book can be found at the IRC or your local public library. Links to Amazon are included here, but, of course, no purchase is necessary.
Any student with a B or lower may access these assignments for extra credit, but they will not be accepted for points if the student already has an A.
You may submit one reading reflection per chapter but are welcome to submit multiple reading reflections per book. Limit 4 per week
- "A Brief History of Time" - Stephen Hawking
- "Cosmos" - Carl Sagan
- "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" - Neil deGrasse Tyson
- "Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life" - Helen Czerski
- "Bad Astronomy" - Phil Plait
- "The Planet Factory" - Elizabeth Tasker
- "NightWatch" - Terence Dickinson
- "The Character of Physical Law" - Richard Feynman
- "Relativity: The Special and the General Theory" - Albert Einstein
- "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics" - Carlo Rovelli
- "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" - Thomas Kuhn
- "A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create a New Universe" - Zeeya Merali
- "Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas that Reveal the Cosmos" - Priyamvada Natarajan
- "A Short History of Nearly Everything" - Bill Bryson