APEP is a program that will produce and share standards-based inquiry teaching materials and activities with high school biology & chemistry teachers. The program provides teachers with tools to teach basic concepts of biology & chemistry using alcohol pharmacology topics of interest to high school students. The program includes a professional development component (workshop) with rich content and development of alcohol pharmacology modules that will be available online.

Three hundred teachers throughout the US have been recruited to participate in APEP. At the professional development workshop given by Duke faculty, teachers learn how to integrate alcohol pharmacology into their own curricula to teach basic biology & chemistry. After the workshop, teachers will field-test the APEP modules in their classes during the school year.

The next professional development full-day workshop will take place at the Southern Area NSTA Conference on Science Education in Charlotte, NC (8:30 am - 4 pm on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008). The workshop will be held in the Dunn Room at the Hilton Charlotte City Center Hotel. The workshop is open only to teachers currently participating in the APEP program.

Teachers will receive registration to attend the Southern Area NSTA conference, course materials, including a teacher's guide, a video, and web access to APEP. Upon completion of the program teachers will receive an honorarium.

For further information about APEP contact Project Manager, Carolyn Weinbaum at rise@duke.edu or call 919-684-5182