Target: I will learn how we can observe bacteria by playing a game, watching a video, and taking notes.
Dispatch: Have you ever been sick? How did it feel?
After the dispatch students were asked to stand up. Colored papers were given out to a few select students. These students were instructed to shake hands with other students, tear their paper in half, and hand them the paper. This process was repeated until everyone in the class had many small sheets of paper.
Students were debriefed about the game, and many students already made the connection - each paper was bacteria, and it was being spread by hand shaking. The yellow paper was neutral bacteria - it did not cause illness, but the red paper was streptococcus - a bacteria that causes strep throat.
Students then watched a video on hand washing, then answered some reflection questions about the activity and the video.
We then took some notes about bacteria on assignment 29 - Observing Bacteria. They learned about how these prokaryotes can reproduce rapidly in favorable environments to form colonies, and that using agar plates allows us to see the growth of the colonies.
They then had to create their Cornell Notes questions - reserving the 3rd level of questioning as their research question for an experiment they will design tomorrow as a team.
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