GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — It’s called the Amgen Biotech Experience and for a number of teachers across the Piedmont, it could be the key to helping their students learn all about biotechnology. They have come to North Carolina A&T State University for two days of intensive training on how to better help their students learn all about bio-tech and how to use it in their classroom lessons. That includes online learning, resources and contacts that show how the procedures they are learning now are applied in real life.
According to North Carolina A&T Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Misty Thomas, “We then split half of our time in the actual lab. So, we ran all our teachers through all the protocols, all the experiments that they would be doing with their students. And we also make sure that in the lab, they have all the exact materials they’re going to have in their classroom. So that way then they’ve touched everything. They’ve played with everything. They’ve gone through all of the labs, so they’re better prepared to then take it into their classroom.”
The university has also put together lab kits with everything the teachers will need to conduct experiments in their own classrooms…