UT-PAN AMERICAN'S MODEL BIOSCIENCE EDUCATION PROGRAM. P*

描述(由申请人提供)： 德克萨斯大学泛美分校(UTPA)的科学教育伙伴计划(UTPA)主要关注一项名为区域生物技术的计划。地区生物技术成立于2001年，作为UTPA的一个地区生物医学学习实验室，供南得克萨斯州下里奥格兰德山谷(LRGV)地区的初中/高中学生和教师使用。地区生物技术的科学家和教育工作者为有针对性的学生和教师提供了一系列协调一致的基于探究的生物技术学习模块，传授实际的实验室经验。我们还利用医学实验室科学模块来补充生物技术实验。自2001年以来，国家卫生研究院的国家研究资源中心(NCRR)通过科学教育合作伙伴奖(SEPA)慷慨地支持区域生物技术。我们寻求持续的资金，用于保持区域生物技术的卓越。我们提议的第二阶段项目的总体目标是广泛传播我们经过试点测试的生物技术/医学检验科学贷款计划，并扩大我们非常成功的校园生物技术/医学检验科学培训活动。Region Biotech将组装5套便携式最先进的实验室设备，这些设备将与实验模块一起借给参与的学校。我们还将全面实施我们的校园生物技术/医学实验室科学培训活动，包括现在要求参加德克萨斯州知识与技能评估(TAKS)科学测试的五年级学生。拟议的地区生物技术活动将提高学生和教师对健康科学的理解，并使科学界代表性不足的群体，包括妇女和少数群体，受益。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Science Education Partnership initiative at the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) has focused for the most part on a program called Regional Biotech. Regional Biotech was established in 2001 as a regional biomedical learning laboratory at UTPA for use by middle/high school students and teachers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) region of South Texas. Scientists and educators at Regional Biotech provide a targeted student population and teachers a series of coordinated inquiry-based biotechnology learning modules that impart practical laboratory experience. We also utilize medical laboratory science modules to complement the biotechnology experiments. The National Institutes of Health's National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) has generously supported Regional Biotech through a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) since 2001. We seek continuation funding for use in maintaining the excellence of Regional Biotech. The overall goal of our proposed phase II project is to widely disseminate our pilot-tested Biotechnology/Medical Laboratory Science loan program and to expand our greatly successful on-campus Biotechnology/Medical Laboratory Science training activities. Regional Biotech will assemble 5 packages of portable state-of-the art laboratory equipment sets that will be dispatched on loan together with experiment modules to participating schools. We will also fully implement our on-campus Biotechnology/Medical Laboratory Science training activities to include 5th grade students who are now required to take the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test in science. The proposed activities of Regional Biotech will result in the improvement of the student and the teacher's understanding of the health sciences and benefit a wide audience of underrepresented groups in science, including women and minorities.