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

生物科学(61)这个项目正在将密尔沃基工程学院开发的制造三维物理模型的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的本科生和研究生的大分子结构和功能教学。PI团队正在创建一门新的荣誉课程，在该课程中，本科生与研究人员导师合作，制作物理模型和基于计算机的教程，说明感兴趣的大分子功能的某些方面。然后，由这些导师-学生团队创建的模型和教程在五门本科课程和三门研究生课程中被引入课堂，这些课程涵盖了几个层次的大分子结构和功能。模型-教程组合在向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有效性正在评估中。

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.