Advances in Immunology and Immunogenetics: Development and Distribution of an Instructional Monograph For High School Teachers and Students

在过去的十年里，我们对人体免疫系统如何运作的理解取得了重大进展。分子遗传学的进步使我们对免疫反应的遗传控制有了更深入的了解，目前正在扩大我们对基因与某些人类癌症之间关系的认识。但是，这些生物学概念上的进步以及与健康相关的应用的知识还没有进入高中课程。在这个项目中，生物科学课程研究将与血液研究基金会合作，开发、实地测试和分发一本关于免疫学和免疫遗传学进展的教学专著，供高中教师和学生使用。专著的前半部分将致力于为教师提供更新，并建议将免疫学内容引入现有的中学生物学课程。下半部分将用于课堂活动。该专著将由国家生物教师协会分发给其6000名成员，并由国家妇幼保健教育中心按要求分发给其他成员。

Over the past decade, there have been significant advances in our understanding of how the human immune system functions. Advances in molecular genetics have led to a deeper understanding of the genetic control of immune response, and are currently leading to an expansion of our knowledge of the relationship between genes and certain human cancers. But knowledge of these conceptual advances in biology and of the health-related applications has not yet filtered into the high school curriculum. In this project, the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, in conjunction with the Foundation for Blood Research, will develop, field test, and distribute an instructional monograph on advances in immunology and immunogenetics for use by high school teachers and students. The first half of the monograph will be devoted to an update for teachers and to suggestions for introducing immunology content into the existing secondary school biology curriculum. The second half will be devoted to classroom activities. The monograph will be distributed by the National Association of Biology Teachers to its 6000 members and by the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health to others on a per-request basis.