CityLab: A Systems Approach to Biology - Phase I/II

描述（由申请人提供）： CityLab是一个区域生物技术学习实验室，是波士顿大学医学院集中其大学预科科学教育工作的保护伞。CityLab通过其广受欢迎的课程补充，为60，000多名初中和高中学生及其教师提供了基于实践探究的生物医学科学实验室体验。CityLab的两个专用实验室及其移动的生物技术实验室（MobileLab）现在每年为9，000多名学生提供服务。CityLab是地方和国家努力改善大学预科科学教育的成功典范，其漫长的等待名单证明了这一点，以确保访问和越来越多的CityLab卫星已经复制了这一计划的许多方面。城市实验室还直接向可以在自己的教室中实施课程的教师分发课程补充材料。迄今为止，我们估计有近30万名学生参加了利用CityLab开发的材料的实验室体验。 城市实验室的使命是向大学预科学生和他们的老师介绍生物技术世界，作为促进科学兴趣和科学素养的一种手段。对科学感兴趣的学生可以攻读高级课程，为生物医学科学的职业生涯做准备。此外，知情的公民将作出谨慎的政策和健康/生活方式的决定。这些目标使我们扩大了我们的大学预科科学教育的视野，包括更广泛的系统方法来生物学。我们未来五年的主要目标是与当地教师合作开发新的实验室课程补充材料，这些补充材料将使用协调系统方法来统一州和国家框架中许多关键生命科学主题的研究。我们建议创建一系列实验室体验，让学生探索血液作为理解蛋白质结构和功能，细胞结构和相关主题的一种手段。这些新材料将通过我们不断扩大的城市实验室卫星网络传播。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): CityLab, a regional biotechnology learning laboratory, is the umbrella under which Boston University School of Medicine concentrates its pre-college science education efforts. CityLab has provided more than 60,000 middle and high school students and their teachers with hands-on inquiry-based biomedical science laboratory experiences via its well-received curriculum supplements. CityLab's two dedicated laboratories and its mobile biotechnology laboratory (MobileLab) now serve over 9,000 students per year. CityLab s a successful model for both local and national efforts to improve pre-college science education, as evidenced by its long waiting list to secure a visit and by the growing number of CityLab satellites that have replicated many facets of this program. CityLab also disseminates its curriculum supplements directly to teachers who can implement the curriculum in their own classrooms. To date, we estimate that nearly 300,000 students have participated in a laboratory experience that utilizes CityLab-developed materials. CityLab's mission is to introduce pre-college students and their teachers to the world of biotechnology as a means of promoting both interest in science and scientific literacy. Students who are interested in science may pursue advanced coursework in preparation for a career in the biomedical sciences. Further, an informed citizenry will make prudent policy and health/lifestyle decisions. These goals have led us to expand our vision of pre-college science education to encompass a broader systems approach to biology. Our primary aims for the next five years are to work with local teachers to develop new laboratory curriculum supplements that will use a coordinated systems approach to unify the study of many key life science topics in the state and national frameworks. We propose to create a series of laboratory experiences that will allow students to explore blood as a means of understanding protein structure and function, cell structure, and related topics. These new materials will be disseminated through our growing network of CityLab satellites.