| How To | |
|---|---|
| Read a Scientific Paper | Guide Quick review |
| Make sense of the Information Out There | Guide and exercise Teaching Notes Additional Reading |
| Explore a Topic of Interest at a Molecular Level | Guide Quick Review Worksheet Learning about Asthma |
| Find Structures Relevant to a Topic of Interest | Guide Quick Review Selected structures related to Asthma |
| Visualize, Analyze and Compare Selected Structures | Cheat Sheet Basics Menus Selections Structure Analysis Structure Comparisons |
| Make Publication Quality Images and Movies | Guide Part1 Part2 |
Learning Objectives
Teaching Notes and resources are available to educators via log-in. For access, please send a message to info@rcsb.org with the subject "curriculum modules" and include your name and school/institution.
- Knowledge
- Compare innate and acquired immunity
- Identify, access, and visualize immune system proteins playing key roles in innate and acquired immunity
- Describe how the structures of immune system molecules facilitate their functions
- Explain at a molecular level how pathogens evade immune responses and cause infections
- Discuss at a molecular level what vaccines are and how they work
- Skills
- Critically read a scientific paper
- Gather information related to a topic of interest from online resources and published literature
- Evaluate if information about a topic is relevant and reliable
- Explore a topic of interest at a molecular level
- Identify, access, visualize and analyze biomolecular structures related to a topic of interest
- Predict how molecular interactions may differ in health and disease
- Attitudes
- Develop arguments at a cellular and molecular level to support or refute a claim related to topics in immunology, infectious diseases and vaccines
- Develop molecular rationales for discussing and making informed choices about available medical diagnostics and treatments options for specific diseases
Lesson plans/activities include a listing of relevant science education standards (NGSS, Common Core and AP Biology) in the accompanying Teaching Notes.
