Enzymes 3-D Model Making Kit

Our easy to make model gives your students a new way to visualize how enzymes catalyse biochemical reactions inside our cells.

Models are powerful tools for teaching science because they provide useful simplifications of structures and processes, helping to make the unseen seen and the complex simple.

After making their model, students use it to look at how enzymes speed up reactions of substrates in their active sites to produce products. They then use the model to see how inhibitors work and how enzymes are regulated.

Covers: enzyme substrate interaction, active site, catalytic cycle, competitive inhibitors, non-competitive inhibitors, allosteric activators, allosteric inhibitors and cooperativity.

The Model Making Kit includes enough materials for students to assemble up to 5 paper models working cooperatively. The comprehensive Teacher Resource Guide included provides illustrated readings, activities, key vocabulary and an assessment, along with teaching opportunities for students to Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend and Evaluate their understanding of the concepts presented.

Models are powerful tools for teaching science because they provide useful simplifications of structures and processes, helping to make the unseen seen and the complex simple.

Based upon the NGSS Standards, students are expected to develop and use models to represent structures, systems and processes, and then provide explanations, make predictions, or investigate possible solutions.

Using the ready-to-use materials provided with each 3-D model set, students first assemble a model to represent a structure or an entire system as an aid to develop questions and explanations. They will then generate data and observations that can be used to make predictions and communicate ideas to others.