Introduction
Today, you will be learning all about bacteria. You may think bacteria are gross but after you learn about how these prokaryotes (single-celled organisms without a nucleous)operate, you'll begin to think bacteria are super cool!
Essential Question: What is bacteria and how does it grow?
Task
Your assigned task is to complete the guided worksheet by doing a variety of four different computer activities.
*Be sure to write down missing words, labels, and your BrainPop score.
Process
Visit the websites located under the *credits* tab. Use your guided worksheet to guide you from website to website. You will need to visit all the websites in the order that your guided worksheet states and write down any missing words, labels, and your BrainPOP score in order to get full credit.
After you complete the entire WebQuest, explore the links provided on the "Teacher's Page".
Evaluation
You will be evaluated on the following:
-Completion
-Accuracy
*Be sure your handwriting is legible. If your handwriting is not legible, you may lose points on accuracy because the teacher cannot read your response.
Conclusion
First of all, I hope you learned something new!
What we consider to be bacteria were the first living organisms on Earth to live! Thousands of species of bacteria exist today. Bacteria are all around us and we come into contact with it every day. In fact, we house 2 to 5 pounds of bacteria inside our bodies! You see, not all bacteria is bad, but it is beneficial to learn about how bacteria grows and exists so we can prevent bad bacteria from infesting.
Credits
First Stop: Biology4Kids
Second Stop: Cells Alive
Third Stop: BrainPOP
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Final Stop: Google Images
Write down observations you see from the google images on the white space underneath 4b on your guided worksheet.
Teacher Page
Here are extra websites you may find interesting to learn more about bacteria:
Also, feel free to also explore more on the websites you visited during the WebQuest activity, located under the credits tab.
Below are other questions you can investigate and explore answers to. Write down you answers underneath 4b on your WebQuest guided worksheet.
1) Write down your favorite website and why.
2) What do you find interesting about bacteria?
3) Can you find another website that would be useful for us to visit? Write down the website and some details about the website.
4) Are there any projects you think would be cool (in place of a unit test) to do with studying bacteria? Write down your ideas/suggestions.
5) What are you hoping to observe from our growing lab?
6) What types of bacteria do you think we will grow in our growing bacteria lab?
7) If you were a bacteria, which would you be and why? Feel free to also draw what you would look like.