CITYLAB--A BIOTECHNOLOGY LEARNING LABORATORY

CITYLAB--生物技术学习实验室

• 批准号: 2772016
• 负责人: CARL FRANZBLAU
• 金额: $ 26.11万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-30 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2772016
• 关键词: biomedical facility; biotechnology; curriculum; education evaluation /planning; handbook; information dissemination; science education; secondary schools; teaching

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): Schools often lack the laboratory resources necessary to present students and their teachers with modern-day, hands-on science, particularly science applicable to human health. CityLab, a regional biotechnology learning laboratory, provides such scientific experiences for middle and high school students and their teachers. Located in an urban medical center, CityLab is a partnership between scientists and educators at BUSM and high school teachers throughout greater Boston. CityLab has state-of-the-art equipment, two full time high school teachers, and a full time scientist, jointly providing laboratory opportunities to students and teachers on a daily basis. Since its inception, over 8,500 students, one third of whom are minority, have used CityLab and over 800 teachers have been certified to lead their classes. Demand for the current year is above capacity. Seven laboratory modules are fully operable and are drawn from major health disciplines such as biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, immunology and microbiology. The next phase of the project has two broad goals: dissemination and evaluation. Dissemination will see the establishment of other CityLab sites and satellites, as well as partnerships with school systems and other institutions, reaching additional communities in New England. The CityLab curriculum will be enhanced by the development of four additional curriculum modules. CityLab will expand its teaching methodology by including teleteaching and videoconferencing. A fully operable mobile laboratory will allow CityLab to reach students not able to come to CityLab and to reinforce prior CityLab experiences for some students. Dissemination will also include the continued distribution of the curriculum and the production of a Replication Manual for those institutions interested in establishing an independent CityLab. A CityLab Biotechnology Camp for high school juniors and seniors will be formalized. Finally, to complement on-going internal evaluative procedures, external evaluation techniques will be used to assess the impact CityLab experiences have on students' decisions to pursue higher education and careers, especially in science.

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：学校通常缺乏 为学生及其教师提供必要的实验室资源 现代实践科学，特别是适用于人类的科学 健康。 CityLab 是一个区域生物技术学习实验室，提供 为中学生和他们的学生提供这样的科学体验 老师们。 CityLab 位于城市医疗中心，是一家合作伙伴 BUSM 的科学家和教育工作者以及高中教师之间 大波士顿。 CityLab拥有最先进的设备，两名全职高 学校教师和全职科学家共同提供实验室 学生和老师每天都有机会。 由于其 自成立以来，超过 8,500 名学生（其中三分之一是少数族裔）使用了 CityLab 和 800 多名教师已获得授课资格认证。 今年的需求超出了产能。 七个实验室模块是 完全可操作，并来自主要健康学科，例如 生物化学、细胞和分子生物学、免疫学和微生物学。 这 该项目的下一阶段有两个广泛的目标：传播和 评估。 传播将导致其他 CityLab 站点的建立 和卫星，以及与学校系统和其他系统的伙伴关系 机构，覆盖新英格兰的更多社区。 城市实验室 课程将通过开发四门额外课程来加强 模块。 CityLab 将扩展其教学方法，包括 远程教学和视频会议。 一个完全可操作的移动实验室将 让 CityLab 接触到无法来 CityLab 的学生并加强 一些学生之前有过 CityLab 经验。 传播也将 包括继续分发课程和制作 为那些有兴趣建立一个 独立的城市实验室。 面向高中生的 CityLab 生物技术营 和老年人将正式化。 最后，为了补充正在进行的内部 评估程序，将使用外部评估技术来评估 CityLab 经历对学生追求更高学位的决定的影响 教育和职业，尤其是科学领域。