Abstract 1328 Rediscovering Glycolysis: A Card-Sorting POGIL Activity for Student Engagement

An understanding of metabolic pathways is critical for biochemistry students to advance in their discipline. Accordingly, the regulation and dynamics of biochemical pathways has been recognized as a threshold concept in biochemistry, and several societies-including the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-have described metabolism and its energetics as a core concept. However, learning about metabolism can be overwhelming for students. Often, pathways like glycolysis are presented without an analysis of the chemical logic underlying each enzyme-catalyzed step, requiring rote memorization by students and evaluation of student ability at lower Bloom's levels by instructors.