1. Microbes and Disease
Year 8 Science

2. Learning Objectives Identify examples of poor hygiene
Produce a poster to remind shop employees of ways to ensure good hygiene.

3. Hygeine Imagine that you are a Health Inspector.
1. Issue a warning letter that lists your concerns about hygiene in MacMicrobe’s General Stores.
2. Produce a poster that reminds Mick MacMicrobe of good shopkeeping practicies.

4. Learning Objectives Define the word pathogen
Name the three main types of pathogen
Identify the structures found in bacteria, fungi and viruses.
Identify key words

5. How?
Labelled drawings
Worksheet
Video
Quiz

6. Pathogens
Microbes that cause disease
Bacteria
Virus
Fungus

7. Pathogens
Microbes that cause disease
Bacteria
Virus
Fungus

8. Pathogens
Microbes that cause disease
Bacteria
Virus
Fungus

9. Pathogens
Microbes that cause disease
Bacteria
Virus
Fungus

10. Pathogens
Microbes that cause disease
Bacteria
Virus
Fungus

11. TASK Draw and label a virus, bacterium and yeast (fungus)
Ask for a “Microbe Quest” worksheet

12. Microbe Quest elephant yeast human bacteria daffodil virus earthworm
Both reproduce
Both respire
Both move

13. Microbe Quest
Coccus
salmonella
streptococcus
spirillium