Brown gets $600,000 grant to train science teachers

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Brown University has received a grant worth more than $600,000 from the National Institutes of Health to improve science teaching in the state's high schools.

The 636,000 dollar grant will be used to train high school science teachers how to integrate high-level concepts and hands-on experiments into their lesson plans.

A team of Brown faculty and staff will work with teachers to design lesson plans and laboratory projects that integrate national science standards and complex concepts in molecular and genomic biology, bioinformatics, neuroscience and physiology.

The program will train 45 teachers, who in turn will teach more than three-thousand students.

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Information from: The Providence Journal, http://www.projo.com/