Bill Nye
Bill Nye: Mold Madness
This tutorial from Bill Nye introduces the difference between mold and plants through a mold growing contest on pieces of bread.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Mold
Resource provides facts about mold, health concerns with mold in homes damaged by hurricanes, and mold prevention strategies.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Slime Mold
Wikipedia provides several paragraphs of information on slime molds, members of the Protista kingdom. Includes image.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Bread Mold Facts
Explains what bread mold is, what causes it to grow on bread and other surfaces, types of bread molds, health risks, and some benefits.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: What Causes Growth of Bread Mold and How to Prevent It?
Explains what bread mold is, what causes it to grow on bread, factors that contribute to its growth, and how to prevent its growth. Includes an experiment for growing mold on bread.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Mold vs. Yeast
Discusses the characteristics of mold and yeast and how they are different in terms of structure, where they are found, method of reproduction, and appearance.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Black Bread Mold
Explains what black bread mold is, what it grows on, the conditions needed for growth, its method of reproduction, how to grow it, and how to prevent its growth.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Slime Mold Biology Activity
This site offers instructions for a biology lab involving slime mold. Includes steps for the 5 day procedure and explains how students should evaluate their observations.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Smarter Than Your Average Slime: Maze Solving by an Amoeboid
In this science fair project, grow the acellular slime mold Physarum polycephalum and test its ability to find the shortest path through a maze.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Slimey Likes It! Studying Chemotaxis in Physarum Polycephalum
In this biology science fair project, test various amounts of glucose to see which ones attract and which repel (chemotaxis) growing Physarum polycephalum slime mold.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum: Make a Fossil Mold and Cast [Pdf]
For this activity, students will make a fake fossil cast using plaster of Paris. A second activity on comprehending the size of dinosaurs is included in this file.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 6.5 Mold
Learn about several different types of fungus-like protists.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Fungus Among Us
Fungi grow from spores and fungi spores are present almost everywhere. Molds and other fungi grow in damp places. In this lesson students will grow and observe bread mold and other kinds of common fungi. Student sheets are provided in...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Indoor Air Quality
This website defines and explains indoor air pollution in all its forms. Content includes a focus on asthma, molds, secondhand smoke, and radon in public buildings and at home.
WebMD
Web Md: Airborne Allergens
This site from WebMD Health provides an article entitled, "Something in the Air: Airborne Allergens". Includes detailed information on why some people are allergic to certain substances, while others are not. Symptoms of airborne...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Making Model Microfluidic Devices Using Jell O
Students create large-scale models of microfluidic devices using a process similar to that of the PDMS and plasma bonding that is used in the creation of lab-on-a-chip devices. They use disposable foam plates, plastic bendable straws and...
Bryn Mawr College
Serendip: Moldy Jell O
Brief text summary of what students learn in the Moldy Jell-O Lab along with links to download Student Handouts and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF or Word formats. Students design the experiment and observe the growth of mold. Focus is...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Molds
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes different types of fungus-like protists.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Mold With Six Partitions
A mold with six partitions, it was used to mold clay which was then dried, baked and used for decorative elements on buildings.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Molded Cross
A brass cross molded in the middle, it consists of two parts. On one of its faces there is an incised drawing of a Saint, above the drawing his name is written in Coptic language. On the other side there are four circular cavities that...
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Mold for a Flask
This round mold is made of reddish clay for the front of a flask.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Types of Allergies
Insightful article that categorizes and describes the various types of allergies. Also gives information on treatment of symptoms.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Preventing Allergic Reactions
This site gives information on how to prevent an allergic reaction--anaphylaxis, rhinitis, skin conditions, etc.-- from happening. Also gives information on how to prepare for a reaction.
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