ABE is an innovative science education program that empowers teachers to bring biotechnology to their classrooms.
ABE provides teacher professional development, curriculum materials, and research-grade equipment and supplies to secondary schools at no cost. This video explores ABE and the benefits of implementing this program with students.
The LabXchange resources below were developed to support the ABE labs and curriculum, and include valuable background information about the biotechnology concepts and techniques covered in ABE. You can use these resources to support students' learning through a hybrid ABE experience or a fully remote biotechnology learning experience. Additionally, you can use these resources to differentiate instruction in a full in-person learning environment.
Content on LabXchange is broken down into different clusters. These clusters are then broken down into pathways. This way you can learn in bite-sized chunks and focus on what is important to you.
This cluster introduces learners to fundamental biotechnology concepts and lab techniques that are part of the ABE Foundations of Biotech labs, including creating a recombinant plasmid, expressing a gene of interest to produce a desired protein, and purifying that protein.
This cluster explores how the understanding of genetics can help to personalize the medical treatments we receive. You examine medical cases, explore how your DNA may make it so things taste different to you than to other people and why, and investigate how we know what genes control what traits.
This cluster introduces learners to fundamental biotechnology concepts and lab techniques that are part of the ABE Foundations of Biotech Labs, including creating a recombinant plasmid, expressing a gene of interest to produce a desired protein, and purifying that protein.
View ClusterThis cluster explores how the understanding of genetics can help to personalize the medical treatments we receive. You examine medical cases, explore how your DNA may make it so things taste different to you than to other people and why, and investigate how we know what genes control what traits.
View ClusterResponding to a Mystery Illness is a self-paced class based on the real events surrounding the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, though the timeline and details may have been changed to allow it to be used for educational purposes. As part of an imaginary WHO team, you help determine which organism is causing a mysterious illness first described in China, try to halt its spread, and begin the work of developing a vaccine. These assets and pathways support ABE professional learning experiences for teachers. These courses align with ABE's Foundations of Biotech curriculum.
This resource is also available with teacher and student guides on the ABE website here.
You can request access to this class by emailing abeinfo@edc.org for the class code. Once you are in the class, you can clone the pathways that are included in it so that you can offer this learning experience to your students.
These assets and pathways support ABE professional learning experiences for teachers. These courses align with ABE Foundation of Biotech labs.
ABE offers lab-based, classroom-based (non-lab) and web-based investigations in biotechnology, and provides professional learning opportunities and resources to support teachers and students in the use of ABE materials.
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