Chapter 5: Lysosomes, Er, and Golgi Bodies.
Sounds unlikely. The Lysosomes sound like a 90s Goth band. Try watching their proton pumps here, and the lysosomes here, courtesy of McGraw Hill animations.
The Golgi Bros are on Youtube.
Ellen says about this next one (Protein modification) 'don't let the vocabulary scare you off'. She's right. Let the words pass. What you're watching is the equivalent of a shuttle bus.
Monday 20 February 2012
Chapter 4: Proteins, DNA and the RNA's.
This chapter of Ellen McHenry's course on Cells covers a whopping amount.
Watch these videos:
DNA
Transcription and translation
DNA Transcription and Protein Assembly
The Secret of Life: a narrative of findings by Watson and Crick
Rosalind Franklin
The DNA song. Can you learn to sing it? And the Protein Song.
Protein transport
And the activities this week:
1. Make a protein pencil popper. Scroll to see the protein shapes, then click on the thumbnail of the shape you like ... and get out your pipe cleaners.
2. Building a double helix from carrots, raisins, blueberries, peas and marshmallows will make complete sense, right?
This chapter of Ellen McHenry's course on Cells covers a whopping amount.
Watch these videos:
DNA
Transcription and translation
DNA Transcription and Protein Assembly
The Secret of Life: a narrative of findings by Watson and Crick
Rosalind Franklin
The DNA song. Can you learn to sing it? And the Protein Song.
Protein transport
And the activities this week:
1. Make a protein pencil popper. Scroll to see the protein shapes, then click on the thumbnail of the shape you like ... and get out your pipe cleaners.
2. Building a double helix from carrots, raisins, blueberries, peas and marshmallows will make complete sense, right?
Monday 13 February 2012
Chapter 3 ATP & Mitochondria
Make sense of ADP and ATP! Read the chapter, twist the ATP synthase, and watch these videos.
1. How diffusion works. Try the quick quiz underneath when you've watched the film.
2. The Electron Transport Chain.
3. Powering the cell; the brilliant animation that makes sense of the chapter; you should easily spot the ATP synthase.
4. The Cell Song.
Thank goodness for the workshops to help make sense of it all!
Make sense of ADP and ATP! Read the chapter, twist the ATP synthase, and watch these videos.
1. How diffusion works. Try the quick quiz underneath when you've watched the film.
2. The Electron Transport Chain.
3. Powering the cell; the brilliant animation that makes sense of the chapter; you should easily spot the ATP synthase.
4. The Cell Song.
Thank goodness for the workshops to help make sense of it all!
Monday 6 February 2012
Chapter 2: The cell membrane and cytoskeleton
Read Ellen McHenry's chapter on what forms the cell. Watch The inner life of the cell. From the chapter we've read, can you identify the phospholid molecules, lipid rafts, microtubule highways and odd shaped proteins?
She also recommends white blood cell chases bacteria and videos on the cytoskeleton.
I'm not pretending to understand all of this... but that's not stopped me before. We'll follow the activity about marshmallows in water and make a motor protein pen.
And I think it will help at this point if we can collaborate to think up a recipe for a CELL CAKE.
Read Ellen McHenry's chapter on what forms the cell. Watch The inner life of the cell. From the chapter we've read, can you identify the phospholid molecules, lipid rafts, microtubule highways and odd shaped proteins?
She also recommends white blood cell chases bacteria and videos on the cytoskeleton.
I'm not pretending to understand all of this... but that's not stopped me before. We'll follow the activity about marshmallows in water and make a motor protein pen.
And I think it will help at this point if we can collaborate to think up a recipe for a CELL CAKE.
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