STEM Education Institute Announcement: Tuesday Talk info

[Stem Account <stem@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Institute
presents:

Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 4 PM
Hasbrouck Lab, Room 138, University of Massachusetts Amherst

"DNA & Protein 3D Structure for High School Teachers"

Eric Martz
Professor Emeritus, Microbiology, University of Massachusetts

Ready-to-use software, tutorials, and lesson plans offer interactive,
rotating, zooming 3D models of high-impact macromolecules such as
influenza neuraminidase and Tamiflu, DNA, antibody, hemoglobin,
HIV-protease and inhibitor drug, lipid bilayers and channels. 
BioMolecular Explorer 3D features molecules that dovetail into high school
curricula. Proteopedia.Org, a new wiki with Jmol, makes it easy to author
new 3D structure tutorials which are immediately online. SMART Teams
engage students in the design of physical molecular models with
researchers. Transmissionist tutorials vs. discovery-based learning will
be contrasted. Molecular Workbench from the Concord Consortium exemplifies
the latter, and has built-in report-generation and assessment tools. All
software is free, works in web browsers on Windows or Macs without
installing anything except java, and is available from
http://HighSchool.MolviZ.Org.

The program begins at 4 PM; refreshments at 3:45 PM.
Parking available at the Campus Center Garage.
For more information, contact STEM Ed Institute at 545-0453