Includes bibliographical references and index.

Educating the public about lipids / Anthony H.C. Huang and Randall J. Weselake -- Fats, genes, and food: using lipids as a tool for science education and public outreach / Denis J. Murphy -- Mentorships and related programs provide mechanisms for involving students in the science of fats and oils / Norm Lee and James K. Daun -- Teaching lipid chemistry through creative problem solving / Karen M. Schaich -- Mentoring independent study students in lipid science / E. Chris Kazala ... [et al.] -- Sample cards for teaching processing of oilseeds and cereals / Lawrence A. Johnson, Jeni Maiers and Darren Jarboe -- Biotechnology and crop improvement in agriculture / David Hildebrand -- Understanding isoprenoid biochemistry / Mee-Len Chye -- What's in a potato chip? / Robert G. Ackman, Anne Timmins and Suzanne M. Budge -- Oils and fats: simple demonstrations of properties and uses / Thomas A. McKeon -- Teaching relationships between the composition of lipids and nutritional quality / Roman Przybylski -- High temperature gas-liquid chromatographic profiling of plasma lipids: a student exercise / Arnis Kuksis -- Analysis of total milk fat / Cristina Cruz-Hernandez and John K.G. Kramer -- The use of enzyme test kits for teaching lipid chemistry / Robert A. Moreau -- Plastids as a model system in teaching plant lipid metabolism / Salvatore A. Sparace and Kathryn F. Kleppinger-Sparace.