CITYLAB--A BIOTECHNOLOGY LEARNING LABORATORY

描述(根据申请者的摘要改编)：学校通常缺乏 为学生和他们的老师提供必要的实验室资源 现代实践科学，尤其是适用于人类的科学 健康。CityLab，一个地区性的生物技术学习实验室，提供 对于初中生和他们的学生来说，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 在BUSM的科学家和教育工作者和高中教师之间 大波士顿。CityLab拥有最先进的设备，两个全职最高 学校教师和一名全职科学家，共同提供实验室 学生和老师每天都有机会。因为它的 一开始，超过8500名学生，其中三分之一是少数族裔，已经使用 CityLab和800多名教师已获得领导班级的认证。 本年度的需求超出了产能。七个实验模块是 完全可操作，取自主要健康学科，如 生物化学、细胞和分子生物学、免疫学和微生物学。这个 该项目的下一阶段有两个广泛目标：传播和 评估。传播将看到其他城市实验室网站的建立 和卫星，以及与学校系统和其他 机构，覆盖新英格兰的更多社区。城市实验室 将通过开发四个额外的课程来加强课程 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 允许CityLab接触到无法来CityLab的学生，并加强 一些学生以前有过城市实验室的经验。传播还将 包括继续分发课程和制作一份 为有兴趣建立 独立城市实验室。面向高三学生的城市实验室生物技术夏令营 而高年级学生将被正规化。最后，为了补充正在进行的内部 评估程序、外部评估技术将用于评估 城市实验室的经历对学生选择更高学历的影响 教育和职业，尤其是在科学方面。

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.