Ocean Microbes Used November 2008 with three Sophomore Biology classes K. Lodes Dedicated to JOHN CARY the first PP presenter…..

Found on EARTH website Click on for rough draft PP Click on for lesson plan Scroll down to 2008 workshop

Basically…. We finished a six week unit on a survey of five kingdoms (eubacteria, archaebacteria, protists, fungi and animals). I split the end-of-the- lesson up into two summary activities A. one focused on just microbes B. the other focused on any organism from what we covered

 Put students in groups of three with their computers and scraps of paper  Put PowerPoint up on screen  Run through a slide at a time, groups try to name organismA

Used the PP from EARTH website

 After each slide student groups try to name organism using notes and internet  Last slide gives key words for internet search to help  no penalties for incorrect answers; no limit on possible answers  One point for each slide  10 points if don’t identify by end of series  Low points “wins” at end Key words: symbiotic algae with coral

B  Students working solo or in groups of two  Pick an organism from the five classes we covered  Students construct posters with “flips”

Good and Needs Improvement  Students had fun with both the PP quiz and the constructing of posters. nice review of microbes and flexible (you can pick which microbes on which you want to focus). students use the internet to search for meaningful information. Students could make up new PP quiz series for the following year.  Time constraints was the biggest weakness. Game, poster construction, using posters during class  The ESP data needed some explaining. I used two organisms that could be identified using the ESP data. The first one, I didn’t help the students out, but after it, we discussed how to figure it out as a class. The next one was easier for them. The Pelagibacter data wasn’t the most clear-cut using the ESP data. Also the data from June 4, 2007 does NOT show Pseudonitzschia australis. As more ESP data becomes available this will be a great tool.  Finding classification information on microbes as compared to animals

Modifications and other resources C-MORE’s microbe personality quiz C-MORE’s microbe IQ quiz Cells Alive How big is…. Remove the URLs for the pictures from the PP slides (quite a few students were smart enough to use them to use them to figure out the organisms). Taxonomy varied, sometimes just genus, sometimes scientific name, sometimes just group. If time was no problem…. Once the microbe has been identified, have the students do a quick (10 minutes or less) search on it and add information that they think is relevant/important. Yellow Prompts need to be checked ahead of time (and the key words changed). Part of a bigger lesson plan; lots of other avenues to explore