|NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH ||Office of the Director| |FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, July 19, 2002 Dr. David Vannier The
modules are the result of a cooperative effort among teachers,
scientists, and curriculum developers. A team of teachers from
across the country, top scientists from the NIH, and curriculum
developers from Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) of
Colorado Springs, CO, and Videodiscovery, Inc. of Seattle, WA,
created the modules. Teachers and students across the country
field-tested the supplements. According to Marjorie King, K-12
science consultant at Jefferson Parish Public School System,
La., "The NIH supplements help bridge the gap between the
classroom and the scientific world. They are very, very good."
Three earlier curriculum supplements, designed for use in high
school classrooms, are Cell Biology and Cancer, Emerging and Re-
emerging Infectious Diseases, and Human Genetic Variation. Each
is available on the NIH Office of Science Education Web site.
Additional supplements a