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Microbial Control
Laboratory
Virtual Microbiology Classroom of Science Prof Online
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VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS
Microbial Control Lab Materials
This is the main page for the Microbial Control Laboratory Topic of an 8-week introductory college microbiology class. This lab exposes students to various methods (heat, UV radiation, antibiotics and chemicals) used to kill bacteria and other microbes. The following links will take you to the Virtual Microbiology Classroom documents that you will need to prepare for lab.
The Microbial Control Lab materials include:
- Lab Exercise & Report word documents
- a Laboratory PowerPoint
- links to images related to the lab
- additional articles and links that support the lecture material
MICROBIAL CONTROL LABORATORY POWERPOINT
The lab PowerPoints used in the Virtual Microbiology Classroom support the material in the related Lab Exercise & Report, and are designed to help introduce students to each lab topic.
HELPFUL TIPS: Some of the PowerPoint presentations are large files and may take a few moments to download, depending on the speed of your internet connection. If you are printing a hard copy of the PowerPoint, you can save paper by selecting Handouts (rather than Slides) in the "Print What:" drop down menu of the PPT print screen. Then you can choose the number of slides you want to have on each printed page. If the printed PPT presentation is to be used as student notes, it is best to choose handouts with 2 or 3 slides per page.
MICROBIAL CONTROL LAB EXERCISE & REPORT
Each laboratory topic has an associated Word document. The Lab Exercise portion of the document provides a thorough explanation of the lab topic, as well as detailed instructions on how to complete the lab exercise.
Students must carefully read the associated Lab Exercise & Report before participating in lab. A quiz will take place at the start of most labs to ensure students are prepared. See syllabus for the schedule of quizzes and due dates for assignments.
MICROBIAL CONTROL LABORATORY IMAGES
This link takes you to the main page of microbiology images, which includes images related to microbial control he images linked here directly relate to the lab exercise and are designed to help you review and study that lab material while outside of lab.
MICROBIAL CONTROL LAB NOTES
Here are brief summaries of some of the various subtopics and concepts introduced in this laboratory, kind of like really good lab notes.
MICROBIAL CONTROL HELPFUL LINKS
These are links to useful articles, animations and videos to help students better understand the laboratory exercise.
- Control of Microbial Growth, Todar’s Online Textbook of Bacteriology.
- Play Pandemic 2 a video game of strategy, where you try to become a successful pandemic microbe and infect the world. My 14-year old, crazy-smart daughter recommends this one to you.
- Play Disease Defenders educational video game, Rice University.
- Pasteur’s Experiment in which he used heat to control microbes animation and quiz from WH Freeman.
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You have free access to a large collection of materials used in a college-level introductory microbiology course. The Virtual Microbiology Classroom provides a wide range of free educational resources including PowerPoint Lectures, Study Guides, Review Questions and Practice Test Questions.
Page last updated: 3/2012
SCIENCE PHOTOS
- Microbiology 101 TextVook (Fun animated textbook.)
- Biology & Microbiology app from QuizMe.com
- Basic Microbiology Lab Techniques by TouchApp
- Microbiology Pronunciations from HippoSoft LLC
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