Microbiology Learning Activities

Description:   Construct an Aquarium on a Glass Microscope Slide

Description:   Observe a relationship between two organisms that together produce an effect they could not achieve individually.

Description:   Examine a non-pathogenic bacterial strain that illustrates endospore formation.

Description:   Culture Common Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria

Description:   Explore how bacteria and viruses spread through a population.

Description:   Conduct bacterial experiments in a self-paced activity.

Description:   Indroduce skills that microbiologists use on a daily basis.

Description:   Understand niches, biotic/abiotic factors, and species interactions.

Description:   You don’t have to take a field trip to the dentist to teach your students about tooth decay and preventive oral hygiene. With this kit, students will gain firsthand knowledge as they culture bacteria taken from their own teeth both before and after brushing. <BR><BR>Includes materials for 24 students<BR><BR>sterile petri dishes <BR>swabs<BR>agar<BR>mouthwash<BR>complete instructions.

Description:   Make the invisible visible. A safe and simple way to teach pollution and contamination, this kit allows students to detect microscopic microbes in samples of air and water they collect.

Description:   This model of the HIV virus is enlarged millions of times to show the outer lipid membrane with protein structures and the internal nucleoproteins and contained RNA.