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IGNITE DRAFT PROGRAM - Coggle Diagram
IGNITE DRAFT PROGRAM
Through the familiar context of a mouldy sandwich at the bottom of a school-bag, students explore:
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Approximately 100 trillion microbes live on and in the average adult human. Scientists have so far counted more than 1000 different species that live in distinct populations. The microbes that live in your gut, for example, are different in size and species from the microbes that live on your skin
Grow Aspergillus, Penicillium
Are there any microbes living on you? Use petri dish's to find out! A petri dish is a circular dish made out of glass or plastic that scientists use for growing microbes such as bacteria and fungi. Microbes start off microscopic and invisible to the naked eye, but as they grow they form colonies which then become visible. Agar provides nutrients and a stable controlled environment for the microbes to grow. The dish is made sterile meaning that it is free from other microbes. If other sneaky microbes were to be hanging around, it might interfere with your results.
Units of measurement micrometers. If there are 1000 micrometers in a millimeter, how many micrometers are there in 1 centimetre?1000 x 10 = 10,000
mysterious world of microbes, with a special focus on fungi
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Students will have the opportunity to plan and conduct their own experiments to investigate the growth of mould
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The case of the mouldy sandwich: at the bottom of your school-bag. It's green. It's smelly. And it looks like it's alive! It couldn't possibly be....could it?
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What type of fungus is threatening the survival of frogs - What role do zoos play in helping save endangered species?
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Philosophy- what is it for data to confirm or refute a theory in science?
Step back from process and explore how we are thinking about what we are doing
The Philosophy of Science
The four humors - previously in medicine disease was looked at in terms of imbalance of phlegm, blood, black bile or yellow bile.
We no longer think about diseases this way. How did this change in thinking come about.
