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The University of Alabama at Birmingham proposes to develop a highly coordinated program to provide high school science teachers and their students with a laboratory based learning experience in molecular biology and its applications in modern medicine. While the program will be based on providing a high level of science content to the participants, the primary goal will be to provide the teachers and students with an opportunity to explore, by experimentation, the molecular world. The program integrates a highly successful high school teacher summer training program in molecular biology, BioTeach, with three new initiatives. The program is designed to provide maximum flexibility to have the greatest impact directly on high school students in the city of Birmingham and throughout the state of Alabama.
The combined programs will:
1) Train Alabama teachers in molecular biology during a 4-week summer course, BioTeach, taught by the faculty and graduate students at the UAB medical center;
2) Provide the BioTeacher graduates with the opportunity to bring five molecular biology lab modules directly into their classrooms;
3) Provide additional opportunity for BioTeach teachers to bring their classes to the laboratory space at the McWane Science Center in downtown Birmingham to carry out molecular experiments with supporting staff from UAB and McWane Center; and
4) Develop a laboratory-based Molecular Genetics/Biotechnology curriculum for Birmingham Public Schools.
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