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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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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Enzymes as Catalysts

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores how enzymes work and their role in chemical reactions in living cells.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions What Affects Their Rates?

For Students 9th - 10th
Enzymes speed up chemical reactions by factors of at least a million. This project investigates some of the factors that affect how fast enzymatic reactions occur.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: A Juicy Project: Extracting Apple Juice With Pectinase

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a basic project on the effect of enzymes on apple slices. The goal of the project is to monitor enzyme activity by measuring the amount of apple juice released by pectinase.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Enzymes and the Active Site

For Students 9th - 10th
An article reviewing over enzymes and active sites.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Molecular Scissors

For Students 9th - 10th
Ever used a pair of molecular scissors? Restriction enzymes are molecular scissors that cut DNA into pieces. Find out which enzymes will cut, and where by making a restriction map. Then you can figure out what will happen if you change...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Which Fruits Can Ruin Your Dessert?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here is a basic project for investigating enzymes that prevent gelatin from solidifying. This way you can understand why it is some fruits are not recommended for inclusion when it comes to making gelatin.
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Activity
K Science

K Science: Enzymes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Several animations illustrating how enzymes catalyze chemical reactions. Examine how temperature affects the enzymes and how toxins can alter the shape of the enzymes.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Basics of Enzyme Kinetics Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the basics of enzyme kinetics graphs, and see examples of the graphs to understand the valuable data that is found on the graph. [12 min, 29 sec]
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Liver Stinks!

For Students 3rd - 5th
Sometimes science can be really messy or use pretty disgusting ingredients. That is what it takes to understand how the world works, even if the experiment isn't pretty. If you like chemical reactions that stink and ooze foamy bubbles...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: I Love Ice Cream, but It Doesn't Love Me: Lactose Intolerance

For Students 6th - 8th
Pizza, milk shakes, and ice cream sundaes all contain dairy products, therefore they cannot be eaten by the majority of people around the world. Dairy products contain the sugar molecule lactose, and the majority of people on the planet...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Weeds Be Gone! Experiment That Affect Roundup Weed Killer

For Students 9th - 10th
Experiment with factors that affect the activity of the weed killer Roundup. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed by a section on terms, concepts, and...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Explore Enzyme Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this science activity, you will investigate the enzyme called catalase to find out how it helps to protect your body from cell damage.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Explore Enzyme Activity With Toothpicks

For Students 6th - 8th
In this activity, you will simulate an enzymatic reaction and explore what factors affect the activity of an enzyme.
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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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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Biochemical Reaction Chemistry

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of a biochemical reaction, the different types and the importance of enzymes in biochemical reactions.
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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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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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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.18 Digestive System Enzymes

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn how the enzymes in the digestive system help with the digestive process in the human body.
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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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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Milk Makes Me Sick

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity will use glucose strips to explore the function of lactase enzyme in milk. Students will try to understand the lactase enzyme to figure out the basics of lactose intolerance.
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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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Other

Science Alive: Changing the Starch in "Yams" to Sugar

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lab activity provides students with the experience of using their own enzymes to convert starch to sugar (a disaccharide called maltose), then testing to see if the conversion has taken place.
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Science & Plants for Schools

Science & Plants for Schools: Project Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th
A website featuring project starter ideas to help students carry out hands-on practical investigations on plants. Some ideas featured on the page include exploring food waste, medicinal plants, enzymes in fruits, and much more! Project...

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