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 participating in APEP. At the professional development workshops given by Duke faculty, teachers learned how to integrate alcohol pharmacology into their own curricula to teach basic biology & chemistry. After the workshop, teachers have been field-testing the APEP modules in their classes during the school year. Data about the acheivement of their students will be released later in 2009.

In the Fall of 2009, we will provide a professional development workshop for preservice high school biology and chemistry teachers. The workshop will take place at the North Carolina Professional Development Institute in Greensboro, NC on Nov. 20, 2009. Details for the time and place will be posted in the Fall of 2009.

Teachers will receive registration to attend the conference, course materials, including a teacher's guide, a video, and web access to APEP.

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