On-line tutorials Mount Mary College CREST educational materials

Dr. Colleen Conway, Associate Professor of ChemistryNicole 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

Guided inquiry

Physical models

Three dimensional training

Interactive

Guided

Molecules from Protein Data Base (PDB) website

On-line models

Importance

Approaches◦ Lecture◦ Guided inquiry

Intermolecular interactions

Protein structure tutorial◦ Primary through quaternary

Enzyme function◦ Specificity◦ Active site◦ Control◦ Inhibition

Tutorials

Hosted at CBM (Center for Biomolecular Modeling)

Link

Enzyme tutorial

Focus on learning objectives

Focus is dynamic

Purpose of Tutorials

Search pdb.org for proteins

Create scripts◦ HTML◦ Source codes

How to Build a Tutorial:

Zoom

Rotate

Color

Flash

Scripting

Thinking in three dimensions◦ Preliminary results

Home access to computers/internet

Classroom management

Student challenges

Center for Biomolecular Modeling◦ Dr. Margaret Franzen

Mount Mary College◦ Sciences Department◦ Dr. Maureen Leonard

National Science Foundation Grant ◦ DUE-1022793

Acknowledgments