LaMotte™ Air Microbe Hunter™ Activities

Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to the exploration of microbes that they encounter every day.

Supplier:  LaMotte™ 5562

Catalog No. S43411

Includes:

• Five expandable and adaptable activities
• Digital Student Guide and Teacher Guide (available as a download)
• Free microbe identification app from iTunes store
• STEM extension activities
  • How Did Fungus Get Into King Tut's Tomb?
  • Dust and Dust Bunnies

Description

STEM-based activities guide students through the culturing and presumptive identification of common microbes on innovative BioPaddles™ - each containing microbe-specific media enclosed in a sterile vile. Activities develop critical thinking skills and emphasize engineering as a key component.

Students predict which environmental conditions are favorable to airborne microbes and then propose and carry out a strategy to collect airborne microbes using passive sampling techniques. Students construct and calibrate an impact sampler to sample an airspace and determine airborne microbe contaminate levels.

Activities and topics:

• Culture grocery store products and school surroundings
• Presumptive identification of airborne microbes
• Bioaerosols
• Cloud chemistry
• Precipitation
• Bacterial ice nucleators
• Airborne diseases

Features:

• Organized for classroom use
• Culture bacteria without Petri dishes - no prep time
• Student teams design experiments
• Step-by-step introductory to advanced activities
• PowerPoint presentations for iPad, ID guides, resources, links, etc
• Digital Student Guide and Teacher Guide (available as a download)

Specifications

• Product Type: Environmental education bacteria studies