Students will develop and improve their communication
skills as they present their results to their peers.
Grade Level/Discipline
Grades 6-12
Biology, Life Science, Ecology
National Standards
Content Standard A: Grades 5-8 and 9-12, Science as Inquiry
Content Standard C: Grades 5-8 and 9-12, Life Science
Pre-activity set-up
The teacher will need to prepare sterile nutrient agar plates and tubes of nutrient broth prior to the start of class.
Materials
Each group of students will need several sterile nutrient agar plates and tubes of sterile nutrient broth. The numbers will depend on the number of diffent and trials temperatures used in the experiment.
Time Frame
The activity will take a minimum of 4 days.
Engagement and Exploration (Student Inquiry Activity
As a class, students should spend half a class period discussing bacteria, its characteristics, and its life cycle. It will work best if students have already studied bacteria. The second half of the class period should be spent in groups developing their methodology for the lab.
Explanation (Discussing)
Each group of students will explain their results to the class noting anything unusual or unexpected.
Elaboration (Polar Applications)
Exchange (Students Draw Conclusions)
Evaluation (Assessing Student Performance)
Students will write lab reports that detail each step of the experiment. Lab reports should follow a basic format of: Introduction - gives background information; Methodology - how they did the experiment; results - what they got (graphs, charts, data, etc); and Conclusion - why they got the results they saw, noting reasons for anything unusual or unexpected.
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