Bite-Sized Post-16 Biology Learning & Teaching Resources
Using the LIPID MAPS Database
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About
This is our most recent project (summer 2020 & 2021) and, as with our previous projects on this site, the resources have been peer-produced by year 12 Nuffield Research Placement students (called Nuffield Future Researchers in these two years - the projects were completed remotely entirely online due to the Coronavirus pandemic).
The objective of the project was to develop resources for either student self-study or to support learning and teaching.
These resources cover topics in post-16 UK & IB biology specifications related to the structure and function of lipids and related biology and biochemistry, but we hope they will have much wider applicability across the world.
They also cover specific topics in post-16 UK & IB chemistry specifications using lipid molecules as the exemplars, viz. saturated & unsaturated, geometric isomers, optical isomers, esterification & transesterification and saponification.
This is a collaborative project with LIPID MAPS (www.lipidmaps.org), a worldwide online database of lipid structures and other associated data, which is based at Cardiff University, UK. My collaborator is again Dr Matt Conroy, with whom I previously worked on the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) project 2015-2019 (to view these resources please go to tiny.cc/proteinLR or click on the PDBE PROJECT title at the top of this page!).
Creators
The initial resources were developed in summer 2020 by two year 12 Nuffield Research Placement students (called Nuffield Future Researchers in that year).
The students who produced the resources for this project were:
Resources
To access the resources, simply hover your mouse over the LIPID MAPS PROJECT title at the top of this page and a drop-down menu BIOLOGY RESOURCES-LIPIDS will appear.
The resources are now available from this webpage for students and teachers in schools and colleges to trial and hopefully provide us with feedback, as we are aware that "biomolecules" is an early year 12 topic in many UK post-16 biology courses?
You can view or download a summary table of the resources here: LRB1_biology_resources_summary_table.pdf
Newcastle STEM Outreach (the team I currently work for) will also develop a single lesson/1hr hands-on post-16 biology workshop on lipids to be delivered in UK schools on demand (once we're back to normal working, whenever that will be?).
We will be delivering a hands-on workshop on these resources at the ASE Annual Conference in January 2022 at Sheffield Hallam University. Further details to follow.
Finally, we are currently developing a set of resources for post-16 chemistry using lipid molecules as the vehicle to deliver them - topics such as geometric (E/Z) and optical isomerism, formation and hydrolysis of esters and both saponification (soap production) and transesterification (biodiesel production) of triglycerides. They will appear on a different tab CHEMISTRY RESOURCES-LIPIDS under this LIPID MAPS PROJECT header. The initial resources will be in place in September 2021, with others to follow later in autumn and winter 2021).
Other Resources
If you have landed directly onto this page and you are a post-16 or equivalent biology (or chemistry?) teacher you will also be interested in our parallel project with the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) which produced a range of learning and teaching resources on amino-acids, proteins, enzymes and DNA. They are hosted on a set of webpages on this same website - please just hover your mouse over the PDBE PROJECT title at the top of this page (which will reveal a drop-down menu).
Get in touch!
If you are a post-16 (or equivalent) biology or chemistry teacher in the UK (or anywhere else in the World as our resources are designed to be generic) and have any questions, suggestions or comments, please contact me either by email at [email protected] or via Twitter @PHoare1963. I look forward to hearing from you!
This is our most recent project (summer 2020 & 2021) and, as with our previous projects on this site, the resources have been peer-produced by year 12 Nuffield Research Placement students (called Nuffield Future Researchers in these two years - the projects were completed remotely entirely online due to the Coronavirus pandemic).
The objective of the project was to develop resources for either student self-study or to support learning and teaching.
These resources cover topics in post-16 UK & IB biology specifications related to the structure and function of lipids and related biology and biochemistry, but we hope they will have much wider applicability across the world.
They also cover specific topics in post-16 UK & IB chemistry specifications using lipid molecules as the exemplars, viz. saturated & unsaturated, geometric isomers, optical isomers, esterification & transesterification and saponification.
This is a collaborative project with LIPID MAPS (www.lipidmaps.org), a worldwide online database of lipid structures and other associated data, which is based at Cardiff University, UK. My collaborator is again Dr Matt Conroy, with whom I previously worked on the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) project 2015-2019 (to view these resources please go to tiny.cc/proteinLR or click on the PDBE PROJECT title at the top of this page!).
Creators
The initial resources were developed in summer 2020 by two year 12 Nuffield Research Placement students (called Nuffield Future Researchers in that year).
The students who produced the resources for this project were:
- Ryan Hall, Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy, Birtley - Nuffield Future Researchers project student, summer 2020
- Ayaan Mehmood, Prior Pursglove College, Guisborough - Nuffield Future Researchers project student, summer 2020
- Christopher Watson, Southmoor Academy, Sunderland - Nuffield Future Researchers project student, summer 2021
Resources
To access the resources, simply hover your mouse over the LIPID MAPS PROJECT title at the top of this page and a drop-down menu BIOLOGY RESOURCES-LIPIDS will appear.
The resources are now available from this webpage for students and teachers in schools and colleges to trial and hopefully provide us with feedback, as we are aware that "biomolecules" is an early year 12 topic in many UK post-16 biology courses?
You can view or download a summary table of the resources here: LRB1_biology_resources_summary_table.pdf
Newcastle STEM Outreach (the team I currently work for) will also develop a single lesson/1hr hands-on post-16 biology workshop on lipids to be delivered in UK schools on demand (once we're back to normal working, whenever that will be?).
We will be delivering a hands-on workshop on these resources at the ASE Annual Conference in January 2022 at Sheffield Hallam University. Further details to follow.
Finally, we are currently developing a set of resources for post-16 chemistry using lipid molecules as the vehicle to deliver them - topics such as geometric (E/Z) and optical isomerism, formation and hydrolysis of esters and both saponification (soap production) and transesterification (biodiesel production) of triglycerides. They will appear on a different tab CHEMISTRY RESOURCES-LIPIDS under this LIPID MAPS PROJECT header. The initial resources will be in place in September 2021, with others to follow later in autumn and winter 2021).
Other Resources
If you have landed directly onto this page and you are a post-16 or equivalent biology (or chemistry?) teacher you will also be interested in our parallel project with the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) which produced a range of learning and teaching resources on amino-acids, proteins, enzymes and DNA. They are hosted on a set of webpages on this same website - please just hover your mouse over the PDBE PROJECT title at the top of this page (which will reveal a drop-down menu).
Get in touch!
If you are a post-16 (or equivalent) biology or chemistry teacher in the UK (or anywhere else in the World as our resources are designed to be generic) and have any questions, suggestions or comments, please contact me either by email at [email protected] or via Twitter @PHoare1963. I look forward to hearing from you!