Chapter 3: Living with Microbes
Science Understanding
- Understand the role of decomposers in recycling matter in the environment
- Investigate the responses of the body to the presence of microorganisms
- Describe the advance in technologies that have occurred to stop and slow down the decay of food
- Investigate the work of Professor Ian Frazer in developing a vaccine for cervical cancer
- Consider how ideas about disease transmission have changed from medieval time to the present as knowledge has developed
Week 1
InvestigateResearch and answer the following questions:
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Microscopic Life
Where do microbes fit? |
Growing Microbes
Seeing Microbes
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Week 2
Microbes Everywhere1. Choose the Human Body or the Kitchen
2. Collect and Categorize them by type of organism. 3. Write a report of your observations 4. Save your collection. 5. Submit Collection 6. Repeat with another location |
Helpful MicrobesFood and Drink
In your body |
Decomposers
Can you do make your own video? Take progressive photos so it records in time lapse for at least a week.
Preserving Food
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PracticalsDo McDonald's fries decompose?
Decomposing Bread Preserving Food Fermentation
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Week 3
Complete the mission to identify what microbe is responsible for the outbreak.
What causes Disease? |
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