Taxonomy and Classification Unit Part 2: Bacteria

This unit includes 9 Lessons (50 minutes each) and 15 page printable work bundle. The Work Bundle has students fill-in critical notes (red slides), conduct exciting hands-on activities, answer questions, interpret graphs, includes games, built-in quizzes, and much more. The work bundles chronologically follow the detailed and interactive set of slideshows. Along with many built-in quizzes a Quiz Game concludes for a great review and additional assessment. Answer Keys, video links, digital version of the work bundle, crosswords, built-in quizzes, and much more are provided. Everything you need to run a fantastic learning experience is provided. Everything arrives in editable format if you want add in your own slides and activities, and the slideshows and work bundles can easily be converted into Google Slides / docs for friendly Google Classroom learning. Please see the specifics about each part of this one of a kind learning experience.

Areas of Focus

This PowerPoint begins describing the Domain Archaea. Students learn the types of Archaea in a step by process. The focuses then moves on the size of bacteria, Eukaryotic vs. Prokaryotic, Parts of Bacteria, Types of Bacteria, Sphere, Rod, Spiral, Mycoplasma, and then is followed by a 1-10 PowerPoint Quiz with images and answers provided at end. The next part of the PowerPoint describes the organization of bacteria, diplo, tetrad, sarcinae, staphylo, Strepto. A neat activity can have your student make the arrangements of cocci with Kix or Coco Puff cereal. Next, blue-green algae is described and gram staining + / -, includes some practice and then has another 1-10 quiz on the type of bacteria and its organization. A neat activity called San and Ella's Cafe is included with directions and questions built into the slideshow. Teacher creates a fake buffet of bowls filled with water and a few with Baking Soda / Water and students choose three items from the buffet. Baking Soda was placed in three bowls, after testing the students cups with litmus paper, they find out if they contracted the food borne illness when the litmus paper turns green showing the presence of NaOH (fake illness) Students then create a chart with the sick students / the items they selected, and the students try to identify the contaminated items. How food borne illnesses can be prevented, Antibiotics, Antiseptic, Bacteria and Tooth Decay, How to Brush and Floss Properly, Bacterial Reproduction, Exponential Growth and Activity, Sexual vs. Asexual Reproduction, The Human Microbiome, Positives and Negatives of Bacteria, and much more are also included. This is a neat PowerPoint which part of the larger unit described below.

This PowerPoint includes critical notes (Red Slides), exciting visuals, challenge questions, activities with directions and more. Text is usually placed at the top of the slide so it can be read from all angles of a classroom. Color coded slides, as well as a shade technique is used to increase student focus and allows the teacher to control the pace of the lesson. These PowerPoints are meant to be interactive as possible and ask many questions, provides built in review opportunities, explains directions to activities, and much more.

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