Modernizing Instruction in Taxonomy and Systematics: Materials for High School Biology

9730648麦金纳尼生物科学课程研究(BSCS)与荷兰阿姆斯特丹的分类鉴定专家中心和纽约罗切斯特的沃德自然科学机构合作，正在开发和出版一张关于分类学、系统学和生物多样性的互动光盘，用于高中生物学课程。十个已开发的活动是基于实验室的交互式调查，允许学生使用各种数据(例如，形态、行为和分子)来构建和分析现存和灭绝的生物群的分类。这种方法是将分类系统视为代表当前对地球上生命的理解和相关性的活跃假设之一。学生能够访问作为光盘核心的数据库，并指向与分类学和生物多样性有关的其他公共数据库。

9730648 McInerney The Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), in collaboration with the Expert-center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc. Rochester, New York, are developing and publishing an interactive CD-ROM on taxonomy, systematics, and biodiversity for use in high school biology courses. Ten developed activities are interactive and laboratory-based investigations that allow students to use a variety of data (for example, morphological, behavioral, and molecular) to construct and analyze classifications of groups of organisms both extant and extinct. The approach is one of viewing classification systems as active hypotheses that represent current understandings and relatedness of life on earth. Students are able to access the database that is central to the CD-ROM and are directed to other, public databases that are related to systematics and biodiversity.