title: Innovative tools for scientific and technological education in italian secondary schools.
abstract: This paper describes the project "Biotech a Scuola" ("Biotech at School"), financed by the Italian Ministry of Education within the SeT program (Special Project for Scientific-Technological Education). The project involved the University of Siena, five senior and junior secondary schools in the Siena area, and a private company. Twenty-three teachers from diverse fields and 318 students from 15 classes were involved. The aim of the project was to improve scientific-technological teaching by providing schools with the support and materials necessary to understand some fundamental aspects of biotechnology. With this project we propose a model of close cooperation among various educational sectors with the goal of teaching junior and senior high school students some of the theory and practice of modern biotechnology.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Fiorentina 1, 53100 Siena, Italy.
authors.forename: Annalisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santucci
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mini
authors.forename: Elisa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ferro
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Martelli
authors.forename: Lorenza
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Trabalzini