Virtual Microscope

You're going a great job in class guiding your learning. For extra practice - do some virtual work using the same website as we used in our manual - virtual urchin. Click on the microscope icon to take you there. Peruse and work through the list of items on the left hand side of the site. It's kinda fun!  Scan the QR code for an extra little piece of information.

Microscope Practice

If you want to do some virtual work with the microscope - virtual urchin is a great site to use.  Click on the icon and peruse through the many options on the left of the site.

Cell Webquest

CELL.... WHAT'S A CELL?

*The cell is the smallest unit of all living things.
*They are the building blocks of LIFE.  
*IF IT'S EVER BEEN ALIVE - IT'S MADE OF CELLS!

**ALL LIVING THINGS ARE MADE OF CELLS**

In order to understand microbes (germs) we need to first understand cells and in order to understand cells we need to  quest - and in order to quest we need to click on the cell!
Homework:  Fill out the cell quest document.  You will have until next week to do this.  Make sure you "make a copy" if you are going to edit on the document.  Otherwise, just print it off and fill it in by hand.

Reading Writing Thinking Day

Leprosy

A number of you have had the opportunity to go to the leprosy home here.  Learn more about it as we continue our study of infectious  disease.  Keep the key questions (from C21) in mind as you watch the video and read through the articles.

Click on this link to see the Leprosy Video about India

But.... There is hope!  Read this article about an exciting breakthrough.
New Hope for Leprosy

Questions for today's assignment can be found here.

Video Clips

Coming up we'll be exploring the germ theory of disease.  I'm looking for short, informative video clips of the following scientists:  Hooke, Leeuwenhoek, Schleiden, Schwann, Siebold, Semmelweiss, Virchow, Nightingale, Pasteur, Lister, Koch, and Halsted. If you find one, please embedd it to your blog and then email the embedd code to me. Thanks!

Bubonic Plague

Typoid Mary was certainly the most famous carrier in the world, but what about the most famous vector?  Is there a most famous vector too?  The mosquitos which carry dengue and malaria are well known culprits, but in the late 1800s and early 1900s it was a little fellow that lived on the rat that came to stardom.  Watch this very short segment on the bubonic plague by clicking on the picture (adapted from Science Odyssee).

Click for Homework reading and questions

The full video of the the bubonic plague.  The episode starts around 4:50.

Typhoid Mary

In class we played the role of epidemiologists, trying to find the carrier of a disease that is spreading through Sauk Junior High School.  The most famous carrier in the world was a lady by the name of Mary Malone, more commonly called "Typhoid Mary".  if we didn't finish in class or if you are absent be sure to view it.  It is a fifty five minute documentary on Typhoid Mary.

How do Viruses work

Germs

We're beginning our study of microlife and infectious disease. Bill Nye gives us an overall view of the microbes we'll be studying - in true Bill Nye fashion. Enjoy.