Education@Home: An opportunity
for teachers and students to participate
in scientific research
If you are a folding@home/genome@home participant
you may also find these educational pages useful.
Teach
California Chemistry Standards in Organic Chemistry while
students participate in a worldwide scientific research
community to find the cure for diseases like Alzheimer's,
Mad Cow ...
Students learn about
polymers, molecular modeling, distributed computing, computational
methods in science, protein design while they participate
in real scientific research.
Download
a free program (see screen shot above) that will allow
the students to observe the results of computer simulations
of protein folding in real time. |
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Everything you need are in
the links under Education
- See teacher page for description
of the project and full instructions on the installing the computer
program.
- Projects page gives students opportunities
for hands-on learning regarding Amino Acids Acids and Proteins,
closely aligned with California Chemistry Standards. Teaches
the fundamental concepts in a meaningful context, with 3D computer
modeling on the web pages where students can measure bond angles,
bond distances, label atoms.
- Molecular modeling page explains
the science behind the pretty pictures.
- Validation of Results Page sees
how the results of computer simulations are validated experimentally.
- Assessment page provides teachers
and students tools for self evaluation and formal evaluation.
- Learn about research results
so far in research article summaries.
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Author: Tug
Sezen
These initial education web pages were supported
in part by the Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular
Assemblies (CPIMA) as part of the NSF Materials Science and Engineering
Center program under Grant DMR 9808677.
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