SCIENCE LABORATORY

描述（由申请人提供）： 南加州大学科学与数学学院SCienceLab将发展成为一个动手，发现为导向的教学实验室，初中和高中科学教师和学生可以与大学研究小组互动，扩展尖端生物科学的经验。它将模仿波士顿大学医学院非常成功的CityLab，并将使用CityLab开发的一些实验室研究。南加州大学的研究团队将根据他们的研究专长开发其他实验室调查。SCienceLab的一个独特之处在于，每个实验室研究都将由特定的实验室研究团队负责。这些团队将由一名教师和博士后研究员，研究生，本科生和技术人员组成，他们共同致力于一个特定的研究项目。他们将不仅负责开发基于他们的研究项目的特定实验室调查的细节，而且还负责与科学教师和学生进行调查。这些活动将与国家科学标准挂钩。 在夏季，将为科学教师提供研究生课程，其中包括对参加科学营实验室调查的学生进行指导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The USC College of Science and Mathematics SCienceLab will be developed as a hands-on, discovery-oriented teaching laboratory where middle and high school science teachers and students can interact with university research groups in an extended experience of cutting edge bioscience. It will be modeled after Boston University School of Medicine's highly successful CityLab and will use some of the laboratory investigations developed by CityLab. Additional laboratory investigations will be developed by USC research teams based on their research expertise. A unique feature of SCienceLab will be that each laboratory investigation will be the responsibility of a particular laboratory research team. These teams will consist of a faculty member(s) and the postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduates, and technicians who work together on a particular research project. They will be responsible not only for developing the details of a particular laboratory investigation that is based on their research project, but also for conducting that investigation with science teachers and their students. These activities will be tied to the National Science Standards. During the summer, a graduate course will be offered to science teachers that will include mentored instruction of students participating in the laboratory investigations at SCienceCamp.