Microbes and Me/background

Theme: Microorgansims in the environment

Goals/Skills:
 * basic culture skills (sterile technique)
 * Where microbes live
 * basic prok. cell structure?
 * prok vs euk?

Lesson plan/activities:
 * talk about saftey and health issues
 * Swab appropriate places to see if microbes are present
 * Transfer to sterile agar plates using proper techniques
 * let cultures grow (room temp?)
 * observe growth (talk about modes growth?) "math connection"
 * explain what they are looking at (colonies, prok v. euk, and maybe basic cell structures)