Mount Mary College CREST educational materials Dr. Colleen Conway, Associate Professor of Chemistry Nicole Fischer, Senior Biology Major
Advantages ◦ Students construct their own knowledge ◦ Students remember and learn more ◦ Students guided to do critical thinking Disadvantages ◦ Most models used are 2-D
Physical models
Interactive Guided Molecules from Protein Data Base (PDB) website
Importance Approaches ◦ Lecture ◦ Guided inquiry
Protein structure tutorial ◦ Primary through quaternary Enzyme function ◦ Specificity ◦ Active site ◦ Control ◦ Inhibition
Hosted at CBM (Center for Biomolecular Modeling) Link Link
Focus on learning objectives Focus is dynamic
Search pdb.org for proteins Create scripts ◦ HTML ◦ Source codes
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Thinking in three dimensions ◦ Preliminary results Home access to computers/internet Classroom management
Center for Biomolecular Modeling ◦ Dr. Margaret Franzen Mount Mary College ◦ Sciences Department ◦ Dr. Maureen Leonard National Science Foundation Grant ◦ DUE