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ABE Australia Teacher Builds Bead Model to Help Students Visualize Plasmids
August 11, 2026
Susan Senior, an ABE Master Teacher Fellow in New South Wales, Australia, noticed her Year 12 students were struggling to grasp how plasmids work. “They just weren’t understanding how the plasmids would come apart and go back together,” she recalled. While the ABE laboratory kit includes a paper modeling activity, her students found the process…
Transitioning to Online Science Learning – 1
March 17, 2020
This blog post is the first of a two-part post focused on how science teachers can prepare and plan for a transition to online learning during the…
Learning in the Time of COVID-19
March 16, 2020
We at the ABE Program Office want to support teachers and students during these extraordinary times. For those teachers who are switching to or…
Real-World Biotech Experiences to Broaden the Narrative
March 9, 2020
Right before the end-of-the-year holiday break, Ann-Marie Butler welcomed some visitors into her biotech classroom at Brockton High School who would…
Creating a New Pathway for Bioscience Education
February 11, 2020
ABE teachers—and all science teachers—now have an exciting new resource at their fingertips. Launched in January by the Amgen Foundation, LabXchange…
Providing Equitable STEM Education in Rural Australia and Beyond
January 31, 2020
Since October, Australia has been facing widespread and devastating fires. While the severity and extent of the fires are unprecedented,…
Teachers Connect at Networking Event in Germany
January 10, 2020
Teaching is too often an underappreciated and solitary endeavor. While working with students day to day in the classroom, it can be hard to feel…
Inspiring and Empowering Young Scientists to Pursue Their Dreams
January 2, 2020
When Sheetal Kumar was 15 years old, her journey in science really began. After growing up in the United Arab Emirates and spending some of her early…
A Twinning for Scientific and Educational Benefit
December 2, 2019
A unique global exchange program is now underway with the Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) in Europe. It started with Italy and France, where the…