APEP is an online resource that provides standards-based inquiry teaching materials and activities. Developed by faculty at Duke University along with high school biology & chemistry teachers across the US, the APEP modules provide teachers with tools to teach basic concepts of biology & chemistry using alcohol pharmacology topics of interest to high school students.

Three hundred teachers throughout the US came to professional development workshops given by Duke faculty to learn how to integrate alcohol pharmacology into their own curricula to teach basic biology & chemistry. After the workshops, the teachers field-tested the APEP modules in their classes during the school year. Data about the acheivement of their students (~20,000!) will be released later in 2010.

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 at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, NC on Nov. 20, 2009 (11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.).

Teachers will receive materials, including a teacher's guide, and web access to APEP.

For further information about APEP rise@duke.edu or call 919-684-5182