Molecular Logic:

Bringing the Power of Molecular Logic to High School Biology

The Concord Consortium invites interested high school teachers to participate in field testing Molecular Logic (MOLO), a supplemental technology program designed to help students understand fundamental biological phenomena in terms of the interactions of atoms and molecules. The Molecular Logic project will do this by enhancing biology courses with guided explorations of powerful atomic and molecular computational models correlated to traditional biology textbooks. This project will help students visualize diffusion and equilibrium, random thermal motion, organic and inorganic molecules, polymer folding, template based synthesis and biochemical processes.

The MOLO models and activities can be found here: http://molo.concord.org/

Teachers who field test the materials will be asked to:

• Include a subset of 10 model-based activities (that have been identified as core) that the MOLO test teachers will need to implement over the course of the year.
• Implement a pre-test at the beginning of the year and a post-test at the end of the year.
• Collect and provide copies of student work from the implementation of the stepping stone activities.
• Prepare using our professional development materials, including online and/or in-person workshops.
• Participate in teacher interviews, and complete on-line questionnaires.

Teachers who are implementation testers will be asked to:

• search the database and choose any models.
• use a minimum of 5 models in their classroom.
• Provide feedback via on-line feedback form and participate in interviews

We are looking for 24 Field Test Teachers. These teachers will receive a stipend of $500.00 And 10 Implementation testers that will get a stipend of $200.00

Interested Teachers

Participating teachers need be teaching biology
Minimum of full year commitment

Technical Requirements for the School

Windows (Pentium 3 Windows 98 or later) or Macintosh OS X
Ability to install and maintain MOLO software in suite of computers for classroom use (no more than 2-3 students per computer).
Internet connection

For more information contact:

Amy Pallant, (apallant@concord.org) 978-371-1337
Eric Rosenbaum (erosenbaum@concord.org) 978-371-5850