Physical models in teaching structure and function of biological macromolecules to undergraduates

本科生物大分子结构与功能教学中的物理模型

• 批准号: 0411278
• 负责人: David Nelson
• 金额: $ 20.09万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-15 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0411278&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Physical; models; teaching; structure; function

Biological Sciences (61) This project is adapting technology for producing three-dimensional physical models, developed at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, to the teaching of macromolecular structure and function to undergraduates and graduate students in biology, biochemistry, and chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The PI team is creating a new honors course in which undergraduates work with researcher-mentors to produce both a physical model and a computer-based tutorial that illustrate some aspect of the function of a macromolecule of interest. The models and tutorials created by these mentor-student teams are then introduced into the classroom in five undergraduate and three graduate courses that cover macromolecular structure and function at several levels. The efficacy of the model-tutorial combination in teaching structure and function of macromolecules to different student audiences with different levels of chemical sophistication is being evaluated.

生物科学（61）本项目是将密尔沃基工程学院开发的三维物理模型制作技术应用于威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校生物、生物化学和化学专业本科生和研究生的大分子结构和功能教学。 PI团队正在创建一个新的荣誉课程，在该课程中，本科生与研究人员导师一起制作物理模型和基于计算机的教程，以说明感兴趣的大分子功能的某些方面。 这些导师和学生团队创建的模型和教程然后被引入到五个本科生和三个研究生课程的课堂中，这些课程涵盖了多个层次的大分子结构和功能。 正在评估模型-教程组合在向具有不同化学复杂程度的不同学生受众教授大分子结构和功能方面的功效。