Lesson Plan: Enzyme Action Biology
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to describe the properties of enzymes and outline the lock-and-key theory of enzyme action.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- describe the properties of enzyme molecules as being biological catalysts that are not used up in a reaction,
- explain enzyme action in terms of the lock-and-key theory,
- state that enzymes can be denatured due to changes in their active site.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- basic graph skills (e.g., spotting a trend in data).
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- the effect of temperature/pH/substrate concentration on enzyme reactions,
- the induced-fit model.
