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Photosynthesis

Anuradha Murphy (a-datta@bigfoot.com) (not ready to use)


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Partner Projects
GK-12 Teaching Fellowships

Subject Areas
Education, Educational Technology, Science

Grade Levels
10, 11, 12, Undergraduate

Unit Keywords
Oakland, School, GK-12, science, photosynthesis

Rationale of the Unit
In the presence of sunlight, green plants convert water and CO2 into glucose using a process called photosynthesis. We will investigate some of the factors involved in this process using freely available Education Technology tools such as the Biology Workbench.

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Background and Resources
BACKGROUND


READINGS


WEB SITES:

Find out more about photosynthesis at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/photosynthesis.html
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/webwise/spinneret/plants/photsy.htm
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/photo_Resp.html

Find out more about Rubisco at:
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/molecules/pdb11_1.html
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/newsletter/2000q4/mom.html
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/fo24_1/e1rxoe.htm
http://www.marine.usf.edu/microbiology/RubisCO/rubisco.html
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031010/04
http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/ps/dark.html

RESOURCES AND SUPPLEMENT MATERIALS


Uploaded Files:
Rubisco.ppt

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