Advances in Biology and Geology: Evolutionary Perspectives

生物学和地质学的进展：进化的观点

• 批准号: 8950312
• 负责人: Joseph McInerney
• 金额: $ 43.31万
• 依托单位: BSCS Science Learning
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-06-15 至 1991-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8950312&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advances; Biology; Geology; Evolutionary; Perspectives

Recent progress in biology and geology has provided new insights into the processes that have led to our earth as we find it today and to the existing variety of life forms. This work affirms the view that the central for understanding life on earth is evolution. However, high school earth science and biology curricula do not adequately address the ways in which modern topics such as plate tectonics or molecular biology inform our understanding of this framework. The Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), in cooperation with the American Society of Zoologists and the Geological Society of American, will design, develop, field test, and distribute print materials and an interactive videodisc on advances in our understanding of evolution for use in high school earth science and biology courses. The materials will be designed for integration into biology and earth science curricula throughout the year rather than as a separate unit; this approach will promote the incorporation of evolutionary perspectives throughout the curriculum. The materials also will acquaint students with "science as a way of knowing", by emphasizing such concepts as hypothesis formation, data analysis, and the tentative nature of scientific knowledge. Media Design Associates, Boulder, Colorado will produce the videodisc and interactive software; VideoDiscovery, Seattle Washington, will publish and market the completed program. Wards's Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, New York, will provide laboratory equipment and materials for all field-test schools and will be the official supplier of the materials when the program reaches commercial distribution.

生物学和地质学的最新进展提供了新的见解 我们今天的地球是如何形成的 以及现存的各种生命形式。 这项工作肯定了 认为理解地球生命的核心是 进化然而，高中地球科学和生物学 课程没有充分解决的方式，现代 板块构造学或分子生物学等主题， 理解这个框架。 生物科学 课程研究（BSCS），与美国协会合作 动物学家和美国地质学会， 设计、开发、现场测试和分发印刷材料， 互动光碟，介绍我们对 进化论在高中地球科学和生物学中的应用 课程 这些材料将被设计为集成到 生物学和地球科学课程全年，而不是 而不是作为一个单独的单位;这种做法将促进 在整个过程中纳入进化观点 课程。 这些材料也将使学生熟悉 “科学作为认识的一种方式”，强调这样的概念， 假设的形成，数据分析，以及 科学知识。 媒体设计协会，博尔德，科罗拉多 将制作影碟和互动软件; 位于西雅图华盛顿的VideoDiscovery将出版和推广 完整的方案。 沃兹自然科学研究所， 纽约的罗切斯特将提供实验室设备， 所有实地测试学校的材料，并将成为官方 材料供应商，当该计划达到商业 分布