Student Designed Enzyme Lab (In-Person and Digital Versions)

Unlock a World of Exploration: Dual-Mode Enzyme Lab for Ultimate Student Engagement

Embark on a captivating journey of discovery with our groundbreaking product, featuring both an interactive in-person and digital version of a student-designed enzyme lab. This lab isn't just a highlight of the year; it's a transformational experience that sets new standards for engagement, depth, and alignment with NGSS principles.

Why Choose Our Enzyme Lab?

Unleash Curiosity: Step away from ordinary "cookbook" labs. Our enzyme lab fosters critical thinking, challenges assumptions, and delivers a genuine understanding of enzyme action. Prepare students for authentic scientific exploration.

Versatile Learning: With options for both in-person and digital engagement, our lab is tailored to your teaching style and classroom needs. Empower every student to delve into a world of discovery and understanding.

Design Empowerment: Empower students to take the reins by designing their own enzyme lab, investigating the intriguing effects of temperature or pH. Witness their confidence and creativity flourish as they navigate experimental design.

Dive into Enzyme Adventure:

Immersive Introduction: Kickstart the non-digital version with a comprehensive background on enzymes, jello composition, canning processes, and the enzymes bromelain, catalase, and amylase. Set the stage for meaningful exploration.

Student-Driven Design: Watch students become scientists as they craft their unique enzyme lab. Whether they explore temperature or pH effects, they'll grasp concepts like never before, with you guiding and inspiring their journey.

Real-World Relevance: Post-lab design, students create an "order request form" outlining supplies required for their experiment. Simple-to-source items from grocery stores or online platforms ensure seamless preparation.

Digital Ingenuity: The digital version provides an innovative solution for absent or struggling students. Experience six out of seven lab investigations in an interactive format, revealing insights through visual tricks and interactive elements.

Empower Minds, Shape Futures:

Our dual-mode enzyme lab isn't just a lesson; it's an experience that equips students with skills extending far beyond the classroom. Witness their transformation as they grasp the essence of scientific inquiry, design experiments, and decode complex concepts.

Invest in a product that bridges traditional and digital learning to foster a deep understanding of enzyme action. Transform your classroom into a hub of scientific exploration and empower every student to thrive. Elevate your teaching today and give your students an unforgettable journey into the world of enzymes.

Grade Recommendation

Grade Level: 9–10 (High School Biology – Enzymes and Biochemistry Unit)
This hands-on and digital lab set is designed for high school students investigating how environmental conditions (temperature, pH, enzyme concentration) affect enzyme activity.

• The paper lab encourages design, data collection, and collaborative experimentation.

• The digital version provides a complete asynchronous experience, ideal for students who were absent, need review, or require differentiated digital access.

It could also be adapted for advanced middle school (8th grade honors life science) when simplified for guided data collection.

Cross-Curricular Connections

• ELA Integration: Students engage in scientific writing through the formal lab report, incorporating citations and clear evidence-based reasoning.

• Math Integration: Students measure, record, and graph reaction rates under different conditions.

• Chemistry Integration: Students explore reaction kinetics, denaturation, and structure-function relationships.

• Technology Integration: The digital version strengthens digital literacy through interactive review, online graphing, and virtual lab features.

Extension Ideas:

• Students could compare catalase and amylase reactions under identical conditions.

• Add a reflection prompt connecting enzyme activity to food science (Jello/pineapple example).

Join the Lesson Laboratory and Teach for Tomorrow!

NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards)

High School Life Science

• HS-LS1-1: Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the structure of DNA determines the structure of proteins, which carry out life’s essential functions.
  Connection: Students connect enzyme structure to its catalytic function and explore how denaturation alters shape and function.

• HS-LS1-6: Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.
  Connection: Introduces enzymes as proteins formed through these biochemical pathways.

• HS-LS1-7: Use a model to illustrate that cellular respiration is a chemical process involving many different chemical reactions.
  Connection: Students relate enzymatic catalysis to metabolic pathways like respiration.

Science & Engineering Practices:

• Planning and carrying out investigations

• Analyzing and interpreting data

• Constructing explanations and communicating results

Crosscutting Concepts:

• Structure and function

• Stability and change

• Cause and effect

Common Core Standards

Applicable Standards (Grades 9–10):

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.9-10.3: Follow multistep procedures when conducting experiments or analyzing data.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.9-10.7: Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed visually (graphs, charts) with written explanations.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to convey scientific information clearly.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.9: Draw evidence from informational texts to support scientific analysis.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.ID.A.1: Represent data with plots on real number lines (histograms, dot plots, and box plots).