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

描述(由申请人提供)： CityLab是一个地区性的生物技术学习实验室，是波士顿大学医学院集中进行大学前科学教育工作的保护伞。CityLab通过广受欢迎的课程补充，为60,000多名初中生和他们的老师提供了动手探究式生物医学科学实验室体验。CityLab的两个专用实验室及其流动生物技术实验室(MobileLab)现在每年为9000多名学生提供服务。城市实验室S是地方和国家努力改善大学前科学教育的成功典范，其获得参观的漫长等待名单以及复制了该计划许多方面的城市实验室卫星的数量不断增加就是明证。CityLab还直接向能够在自己的课堂上实施课程的教师分发课程补充资料。到目前为止，我们估计已有近300,000名学生参加了使用CityLab开发的材料的实验室体验。 CityLab的使命是将大学前的学生和他们的老师介绍给生物技术世界，作为一种促进对科学的兴趣和科学素养的手段。对科学感兴趣的学生可以学习高级课程，为在生物医学科学领域的职业生涯做准备。此外，知情的公民将做出谨慎的政策和健康/生活方式决定。这些目标使我们扩大了大学前科学教育的视野，以涵盖更广泛的生物学系统方法。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，将使用协调系统的方法来统一州和国家框架内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，允许学生探索血液，以此作为了解蛋白质结构和功能、细胞结构以及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进行传播。

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.