Summer Teacher Workshop on Tuberculosis (August 2008)
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Who should apply? Washington State Math and Science high school teachers.
What do participants get?
Extra! Extra! Information about SBRI's TB research program can be found in a recent Seattle Times article. Read it here.
- 291 active TB cases in Washington State last year.
- 11 million American currently carry TB bacilli in their lungs (latent TB).
- 3 billion people on earth currently carry TB bacilli in their lungs (latent TB).
Who should apply? Washington State Math and Science high school teachers.
What do participants get?
- Involvement in a paid 8-hour teacher professional development workshop at SBRI on August 21, 2008. Workshop training designed to demonstrate the devastating impact of tuberculosis both worldwide and in Washington; and includes materials and workshop lectures that will prepare your students for a 2008-09 visit to SBRI's research laboratories and for careers in biomedical research.
- Cross-curricular mathematics and science curriculum that allow students to see the relevance in their fractions, proportions and pre-calculus (modeling). Sample calculations investigate the true meaning of the commonly held belief that one third of our planet is infected with tuberculosis.
- A $300 travel stipend for the participating math and science teachers; supporting the financial means by which up to 32 students may return to SBRI for a three-hour field trip during the 2007-08 school year.
Extra! Extra! Information about SBRI's TB research program can be found in a recent Seattle Times article. Read it here.
From: BioQuest.
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