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Bacterial Roles
Students study bacteria and the role it plays in the ecosystem. In this bacteria lesson students research the roles bacteria has and submit a chart.Â
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Bacterial Transformation
Students explore DNA recombination. In this biology lesson, students observe the growth of microscopic species. They predict the phenotype of the transformed colonies.
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Bacterium Cells
In this bacteria instructional activity, students read several elements of bacterium cells, their diet, types, locations, reproduction, resting stages, effects of, and classification. Students also study a cross-section of bacterium cells.
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Y7 Variation and Habitats (S)
In this biology activity, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms relating to variations and habitats of living things. There are 37 biology terms located in the word search.
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Classification
For this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms related to the classification of living things. There are 32 biology terms located in the word search.
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Bacteria Test Word Search Puzzle
In this word search learning exercise, students find twenty-one terms related to bacteria. The puzzle is challenging with scientific terms.
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MicroBiology Chp 1
In this biology worksheet, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms found in Microbiology. There are 42 words located in the puzzle.
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Word Scramble – Lesson 3
In this health worksheet, learners identify and define vocabulary terms related to foodborne illness. They unscramble the words listed at the bottom of the sheet and use them to complete each of 8 blanks.
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Wanted: The Infamous Five
Students name the five most common types of foodborne pathogens. They comprehend how bacteria can grow and spread. Students are taught healthy hygiene and food-safety habits. They discuss the crimes of the five most wanted foodborne...
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Bacteria Buddies
Tenth graders grow two different bacteria cultures. They count the colonies, and then use graphing calculators to predict the number of colonies that are going to appear. Students answer questions from their worksheet after completing...
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A Breath of Fresh Air! Oxygen Tolerance in Bacteria
High schoolers explore and research what pork and beans, gangrene and denitrification have in common. They summarize that they all are the result of anaerobic bacterial action. Students analyze the chemical processes that are carried out...
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Living Without Oxygen: Oxygen Tolerance in Bacteria
High schoolers explore and experience a variety of chemical processes that are carried out by bacteria and determined by the amount of oxygen present in the environment in which they live. They review and examine various chemical...
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Living in Extreme Environments
Students explore the living conditions needed to grow bacteria. They develop an experiment that will test the ability of bacteria to survive various temperature extremes. In addition, they complete a lab reprt to share their results.
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Activity 4: Alvin Dive, A Mysterious Encounter and Change Over Time
Students receive copies of the Time Series Observations to use for note-taking. They work in small groups to discuss what they see when the outside lights of Alvin are turned on, and off, where the bacteria may have come from. They view...
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Providing Safe Food to the Consumer
Students identify safe practices that must be followed to assure the food chain from the farm or ranch to dinner table is providing safe and quality food for the consumer. Students visit websites to examine numbers of food borne...
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How Clean Is Our Water?
Students examine samples of water to determine its cleanliness. They visit a waste treatment plant and/or reservoir. Students explore what protects the water supply from contamination by chemical or organize pollution. They trace the...
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Microworlds in Waterways Around You Home
Learners explore the concept that different waterways support different organisms. After completing experiments, students predict what life-forms exist in each waterway in their area. They research how humans impact the habitat of other...
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DNA Transformation of Bacteria - Red Colony
Students perform experiments with bacteria. They discover that genes can be transferred from one bacteria to another on the plasmid by a transformation. Over a two day period, students follow detailed instructions in order to observe...
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How Can You Prevent Spoilage?
Middle schoolers complete laboratory activity to discover what temperature is most effective in prohibiting bacterial growth in two percent milk. Students then write lab report detailing findings.
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What's Living in My Mouth?
Students articulate in written and oral formats that bacteria can be found living everywhere. They explain in written and oral formats why the immune system is necessary. Students are presented with an opportunity to see bacteria alive...
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Lights On - We Have A Quorum
Students explore basic bacteriological techniques. They investigate cell to cell communication and become aware of the environmental and evolutionary implications of this communication.
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Using Magnetotactic Bacteria to Study Natural Selection
High schoolers demonstrate that living organisms may possess incredible adaptations which enable them to survive. They observe bacteria that are able to orient themselves using the Earth's magnetic field and formulate a hypothesis as to...
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Active Ingredient Screening Test for Plants
Students explore the growth of bacteria. They determine if various plant materials contain active ingredients that inhibit the growth of bacteria. In addition, they complete a student data sheet.
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Selecting Soil Organisms in Compost
Students conduct an experiment to demonstrate that many of the enzyme systems needed to break down society's wastes exist in nature among the decomposers in a compost pile. They culture compost bacteria on starch agar to examine the...