ABE empowers teachers to bring biotechnology to their classrooms.
Curriculum & Resources
ABE offers lab-based, classroom-based (non-lab), and web-based investigations in biotechnology, and provides professional learning opportunities and resources to support teachers and students in the use of ABE materials.
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ABE Is Effective
Studies have shown that students exposed to ABE have increased interest and confidence in science and biotechnology.
Students made a significant and substantial gain in biotech learning.
Teachers reported greater interest, knowledge, and skills from their ABE training.
59% of participating public ABE schools in U.S. serving low SES students.
ABE’s Global Reach
ABE currently has 27 program sites across 16 countries. Globally, the program has impacted 1,000,000+ students to date.
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Featured Content
Seeing the Impact: ABE Reaches 1 Million Students and Counting
Choosing a single student's story to highlight for a program that has reached 1 million students is not an easy task. Over the past 35 years, alumni of ABE have done everything from running their own labs and working in biotech manufacturing, to teaching and becoming engineers. > READ MORE
Protein Factory Game
In this card game, developed by ABE The Netherlands teacher Ingeborg Van der Neut, the goal is to make a finished protein starting from DNA! The team that is first to have a finished protein in their Golgi apparatus wins! > READ MORE