Description

Models are powerful tools for teaching science as they provide useful simplifications of structures and processes, helping to make the unseen seen and the complex simple. Using the colorful model, your students will get an engaging overview of enzymes.

Using the ready-to-use materials provided with each 3-D model set, students first assemble a model to represent a structure or an entire system as an aid to develop questions and explanations. They will then generate data and observations that can be used to make predictions and communicate ideas to others.

Using the materials provided, students will construct a colorful enzyme model. They will then use it to gain an understanding of how enzymes speed up reactions of substrates in their active sites to produce products. They’ll also use the model to see how inhibitors work and how enzymes are regulated. Covers enzyme substrate interaction, active site, catalytic cycle, competitive inhibitors, non-competitive inhibitors, allosteric activators, allosteric inhibitors, and cooperativity.

The Model Making Kit includes enough materials for students to assemble up to 5 paper models, working cooperatively, along with a comprehensive Teacher Resource Guide.

Also includes a comprehensive, illustrated Teacher Resource Guide for effective preparation and integration of the models’ use in instruction.