Itinerary of the trip

8:00: Wake up for a full day of SCIENCE!
8:30-9:30: Breakfast
9:45: Board the USS Bio and meet with tour guide, Ernie.
10:00: Enter the cell and chloroplast
10:00-11:30: Observe the light dependent reaction. This includes photosystem II, where water is broken down and where sunlight is used to energize electrons in the electron transport chain. You will also observe photosystem I, where the energized electrons in the electron transport chain are used to turn NAD+ into NADPH, and hydrogen molecules that were pumped into the thylakoid now diffuse through a protein channel in the thylakoid membrane, turning ADP into ATP.
11:30-1:00: Have lunch and discuss what you have seen with your tour guides and your fellow tourists.
1:00-3:00: Observe the light independent reaction. The light independent reaction takes place in the stroma, which is the liquid inside of the chloroplast. The ATP and NADPH molecules that you saw being made before is now used to rearrange the carbon molecules in a process called the Calvin Cycle, and after two cycles of this, a high energy carbon molecule, glucose, is made.
3:00: Leave the cell and return to the docking bay.
3:30: Leave with lots o’ new knowledge!