LaMotte™ Air Microbe Hunter™ Activities

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)