CITYLAB--A BIOTECHNOLOGY LEARNING LABORATORY

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：学校往往缺乏 为学生和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， 这种科学经验，为初中和高中学生和他们的 教师 CityLab位于城市医疗中心， BUSM的科学家和教育工作者以及高中教师之间的联系 大波士顿 城市实验室拥有最先进的设备，两个全职高 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。 以来 成立以来，超过8，500名学生，其中三分之一是少数民族， CityLab和800多名教师已获得认证，可以领导他们的班级。 本年度的需求超过了产能。 七个实验室模块 完全可操作，并从主要的卫生学科，如 生物化学、细胞和分子生物学、免疫学和微生物学。 的 该项目的下一阶段有两大目标：传播和 评价 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，到达新英格兰的其他社区。 城市实验室 课程将通过开发四个额外的课程来加强 模块。 CityLab将扩大其教学方法，包括 远程教学和视频会议。 一个完全可操作的移动的实验室将 允许CityLab接触无法来CityLab的学生，并加强 一些学生之前的CityLab体验。 传播也将 包括继续分发课程和制作 供有兴趣建立一个 独立的CityLab CityLab生物技术夏令营 老年人将被正式化。 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 CityLab体验对学生决定追求更高 教育和职业，特别是在科学方面。

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.