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Glowing Growing Germs

Glowing Growing Germs. Exploring the spread of microbes in Bozeman’s elementary schools. Dema Alniemi. Target Audience. Elementary school kids in Bozeman 4 th graders Emily Dickinson Hawthorne. Lesson plan. How illnesses spread Human biological defenses Expand imaginations.

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Glowing Growing Germs

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  1. Glowing Growing Germs Exploring the spread of microbes in Bozeman’s elementary schools Dema Alniemi

  2. Target Audience • Elementary school kids in Bozeman • 4th graders Emily Dickinson Hawthorne

  3. Lesson plan • How illnesses spread • Human biological defenses • Expand imaginations

  4. Project Overview • Glo Germ activity

  5. “Invisibility” of Germs

  6. Germs spread easily!

  7. Checked hand washing techniques with Glo Germ and UV light

  8. Fingernails/cuticles Wrists In between fingers Creases of hands Commonly missed areas

  9. Project Overview • “Growing Germs” activity • Swabbed areas around classroom and school • Grew on agar plates for one week • Returned to classroom with results

  10. Floor

  11. Loft ladder

  12. Water fountain

  13. What kids learned… • How easily bacteria and microbes spread • Prevention of spread • Basics of human immune system

  14. What kids learned… • How to keep self and those around us healthy • Stay home if ill • Cough/sneeze in elbow, not hands • Dispose of used tissue immediately • Daily exercise • Variety of fresh, healthy foods in diet

  15. Challenges of outreach • Obtaining responses from teachers • Keeping 9-10 year olds calm • Working with a child with OCD whose phobia is germs

  16. Successes of outreach • Science was made fun for students who previously were uninterested in the subject • Kids made connections between science and everyday life

  17. My favorite part was… • “Learning how germs and bacteria spread.” -Noah

  18. My favorite part was… • “Swabbing and seeing what a germ looks like.” -Hannah

  19. My favorite part was… • “That I get to do more science and I love science because it’s a lot of fun!” -Mary Kate

  20. Hughes Undergraduate Biology Program Howard Hughes Medical Institute Acknowledgments Thanks also to Martha Sellers, Kylie Perlinski, Gwen Jacobs, Duane Mooney, Edward Dratz, and all the teachers and students I worked with.

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