Curriculum Topics
Biochemistry and Chemical Systems

Module	Page	Type
Aspirin Adventures	Aspirin Detectives	paper activity
	Aspirin Quiz	paper activity
	Before Aspirin	reading
	A Festival of Analgesics	reading
	Hoffmann, We Have a Problem	reading
	Timeline of Discovery	reading
Magic Bullets: Chemistry vs. Cancer	Cancer Chemotherapy: A Chemical Needle in a Haystack	reading
	Cancer Chemotherapy: A Timeline	reading
	The Gene Factor—Cracking the Code: Mutations	paper activity
	The Gene Factor—Cracking the Code: A Simulation	paper activity
	The Gene Factor—Gene BRCA1	reading
	The Gene Factor—Gene p53	reading
	The Gene Factor—Genes and Cancer	reading
	The Gene Factor—Genetics: A Timeline	reading
	The Gene Factor—Isolating DNA	lab activity
	The Gene Factor—Mary-Claire King: Prevention Pioneer	reading
	George Hitchings: Pharmaceutical Achiever	reading
	Gertrude Belle Elion: a Lifeline	reading
	Methods of Treatment: Choosing a Weapon	reading
	Paul Ehrlich: Pharmaceutical Achiever	reading
	You Become What You Eat— Antioxidants and the Hunt for Free Radicals	reading
	You Become What You Eat—Reading Food Labels	paper activity
Antibiotics in Action	Brewing for Millennia: Fermentation in History	reading
	Bugs Fighting Back: Basics of Bacterial Resistance	reading
	Cell Membranes	lab activity
	Culturing Bacteria: Isolation and Identification	lab activity
	Digging for a Cure	reading
	Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Pharmaceutical Achiever	reading
	Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown: Pharmaceutical Achievers	reading
	Enzyme Basics: Science and History	reading
	Enzyme Specificity: Adventures in Digestion	lab activity
	Fermentation by Yeast	lab activity
	Honey—Yes, UFOs—No	reading
	Medicine from Dirt: Isolating Actinomycetes	lab activity
	Mold is for Wimps: Antibiotics from Big Scary Reptiles	reading
	Name That Actinomycete: Isolating Soil Organisms	lab activity
	Observing Cells: Using Stains	lab activity