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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Enzymes in the Digestive System

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Chemical digestion could not take place without the help of digestive enzymes. An enzyme is a protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the body. Digestive...
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: One Gene, One Enzyme

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about these historical experiments having to do with genes being connected to enzymes: Garrod's studies of alkaptonuria and Beadle and Tatum's work with Neurospora mutants.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Enzymes Proteins That Pack a Punch!

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a combination of slide show tutorials and a video demonstration, learn how enzymes work. [3:00]
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Interactive
BioMan Biology

Bio Man Biology: Enzymatic!

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the critical role enzymes play in supporting life as you play games and solve puzzles, and do virtual experiments. Then take a quiz to check your understanding.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Enzymes Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this biology lab, students use pineapple juice as an enzyme, and jello as a substrate to illustrate an enzyme/substrate complex.
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BioMan Biology

Bio Man Biology: Life Chemistry Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th
Two multiple-choice quizzes, one on the processes and types of biological molecules, the other on the structure and replication of DNA.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Energy and Enzymes: Overview of Metabolism

For Students 9th - 10th
An article reviewing how energy flows in a cell including metabolic pathways.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Energy and Enzymes: Enzyme Regulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Review over the factors that can control enzymatic activity with this article.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biological Processes: Putting Microbes to Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn the fundamentals of using microbes to treat wastewater. They discover how wastewater is generated and its primary constituents. Microbial metabolism, enzymes and bioreactors are explored to fully understand the primary...
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Handout
Other

University of Akron: General, Organic, and Biochemistry: Enzymes [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Slideshow notes introduce enzymes: their purpose, process, and importance.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Enzymes

For Students 1st - 9th
Explore information about enzymes in the science of biology including what they do, how they work, and things that affect enzyme activity.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Biological Molecules

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, step-through animations, and video clips, studnet explore biochemistry and the molecules that make up living things.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium:molecular Workbench:enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Elisa)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the ELISA test in this learning module. Explore how the Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) test can be used to see if certain antigens are present.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Enzyme Substrate Complex

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the properties of enzymes and the concept of enzyme-substrate specificity, and how a substrate molecule binds to an enzyme to form an enzyme-substrate complex. An overview of enzyme-substrate reactions is also presented.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: What Are Enzymes and How Do They Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what enzymes are, the three broad categories, their working mechanism and two theories developed to explain this, and factors that impact enzyme activity.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Important Factors That Influence Enzyme Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what is meant by enzyme activity and the factors that impact on their ability to function. Looks at temperature, pH value, substrate concentration, enzyme concentration, the presence of inhibitors, and allosteric factors that...
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Effect of P H on Enzymes

For Students 9th - 10th
Every enzyme has an optimal pH value at which it functions best. This article explains why pH has an effect on enzyme activity and how it affects them.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Rennin (Enzyme)

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how rennin is produced and why it is important in the human body. Describes some other uses of rennin and how it is sometimes confused with a different enzyme named renin.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Restriction Enzymes & Dna Ligase

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about restriction digestion, where the result has sticky ends and blunt ends. Also find out about ligation reactions.
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Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Biochemistry: Enzymes

For Students 5th - 9th
This tutorial takes a brief look at enzyme activity and how enzymes work as catalysts.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: An Overview of the Difference Between Nadh and Nadph

For Students 9th - 10th
NADH and NADPH are enzymes involved in cellular processes. Explains how NADH participates in catabolic reactions where energy is released and NADPH is involved in anabolic reactions where energy is consumed. Their functions and chemical...
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Handout
Other

Biology Guide: Molecules, Cells, and Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about molecules, cells, and systems. Some topics investigated in the tutorial are cell types, enzymes, plasma membranes, and the heart.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Energy and Enzymes: The Laws of Thermodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the first and second law of thermodynamics as it applies to the body in this article.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Energy and Enzymes: Free Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
In this article, read all about the relationship between spontaneity and equilibrium to the Gibb's free energy change.

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