We’ve been working with two high school teachers (David Paynter and Aminah Bilal) to give a full introduction to Folding@home for those with little or no science background. We’ve made a series of YouTube movies that are linked together. You can get to them at
https://foldingathome.org/talklets/index.html
PS You can also find all the movies here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=PandeScience