Curated OER
Carbohydrates: Disaccharides & Polysaccharides
Feed your young chemists a carbohydrate feast with this presentation. Partakers will ingest molecules of maltose, lactose, sucrose, cellulose, and more! This concise lesson introduces viewers to the molecular structure of different...
Curated OER
Biologically Important Molecules
In this biologically important molecules learning exercise, students fill in the blank with information about carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins. Students also make notes about nucleic acids.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Sweet Sweet Carbs
Here you can learn all about carbohydrates! Content explores what carbohydrates are used for in the body, as well as the different types: saccharides, regular sugars, and polysaccharides.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Disaccharide
Wikipedia provides a brief description of disaccharides, including hyperlinked terms and examples.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Food Chemistry: Carbohydrates
Read about carbohydrates, which make up one of the three "Major classes of macronutrients that are essential to living organisms." In addition to defining several terms, including carbohydrate, simple sugars, complex carbohydrates,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Disaccharides: Lesson 2
This lesson will introduce disaccharides, including an overview of their structure, and providing multiple examples. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Disaccharides."
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: Carbohydrates
This is a rather advanced site outlining carbohydrates, and their various forms.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Could We Live Without Water?
News article summarizes research on the disaccharide, trehalose, and its role in survival under extremely dry conditions.
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Molecular Structures: Disaccharides
View some common disaccharide molecules such as maltose, lactose, and fructose. Manipulate the structures to see the carbon chains from all angles.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Disaccharides: Lesson 3
This lesson will introduce disaccharides, including an overview of their structure, and providing multiple examples. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Disaccharides."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Disaccharides: Lesson 4
This lesson will introduce disaccharides, including an overview of their structure, and providing multiple examples. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Disaccharides."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Disaccharides: Lesson 1
This lesson will introduce disaccharides, including an overview of their structure, and providing multiple examples. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Disaccharides."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Structure and Function of Macromolecules: Carbohydrates: Lesson 2
This lesson presents how the structure and function of carbohydrates pertain to living things. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Structure and Function of Macromolecules: Carbohydrates."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Structure and Function of Macromolecules: Carbohydrates: Lesson 1
This lesson presents how the structure and function of carbohydrates pertain to living things. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Structure and Function of Macromolecules: Carbohydrates."
Frostburg State University
Frostburg State Univ.: Test for Sucrose
Frostburg State University provides a chemical procedure for determining the presence of a sucrose.