This is a case study adapted from "Teaching Chemistry Through the Jigsaw Strategy" by the Quality Education Fund, Hong Kong (2007). It brings to attention the importance of chirality and the structures of molecules in a biological context. It describes the real events surrounding the drug Thalidomide before it was pulled off of the market. This drug has recently been introduced back to the market...

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Modified from a worksheet originally created by Dr. Biao Ding, this worksheet can be passed out to students to use as a review of chemistry, macromolecules, and components of the cell. The key to the worksheet and all references for the figures are included in the file.

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This resource comes from the NIH U.S. National Library of Medicine. The website includes resources for teaching Mendelian genetics and nonmendelian inheritance patterns all related to characters in the Harry Potter series. PowerPoint slides are included for instruction along with printable student handouts.

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This activity was designed for small group discussions during class. The purpose of this activity was to help students see the importance of the cytoskeleton and to get some exposure to mechanisms of cancer, specifically metastasis of cancer cells. The images and much of the information was taken from a review published by Fife, et al., Brit. J. Pharm., 2014. The first page of the file contains...

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This is a website that describes an in-class, hands-on activity to model the different levels of protein structure (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary) using Twizzlers candy.

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