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Science Education Links
Microbiology
from Science Prof Online
Links to Microbiology Science Education Freebies
Page last updated: 9/2013
- Catch My Disease - song by Ben Lee
- Germs - song by Weird Al Yankovic
- Microbiology 101 TextVook (Fun animated textbook.)
- Biology & Microbiology app from QuizMe.com
- Basic Microbiology Lab Techniques by TouchApp
- Microbiology Pronunciations from HippoSoft LLC
- Microbe Wiki, Kenyon College
- I Love Bacteria website
- Microbe World, American Society of Microbiology
- The Virtual Interactive Bacteriology Laboratory by Dr. Cindy Grove Arvidson, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
- Play Pandemic 2 a video game of strategy, where you try to become a successful pathogen and infect the world.
- “Quarantine” (original foreign film called [REC]) is a scary movie about a new infectious disease.
- Koch's Postulates: Scientific Method Linking Microbe to Disease, May 29, 201
- Pasteur’s Experiment testing spontaneous generation, animation and quiz from WH Freeman.
- The Dress Lodger, a historical novel about cholera, prostitution and body snatching set in Sunderland England 1831.
- Brief History of Microbiology online flashcards from Quizlet.
- Microbe Hunters, a classic & entertaining book on history of micro.
- Play “Fling The Teacher”, an interactive “Medicine: Infectious Disease” Quiz in which you get to build a teacher (victim), then fling them with a trebuchet if you correctly answer the quiz questions.
- History of Microbiology interactive timeline from Microbe World.
- Wickett's Remedy, historical novel about Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918
- Binary Fission: Cell Division & Reproduction of Prokaryotes, April 6, 2011
- E. coli population growth time lapse video.
- Bacterial growth video and narration, YouTube, Dizzo95.
- “California's Pink Salt Lakes: A Strange Phenomenon Caused By Red Halobacteria”, a webpage with great pictures of halophiles in environment, by WP Armstrong.
- STD Name Game, figure out the STD based on a description of symptoms from WebMD.
- “Hey There Chlamydia” music video by the Bob Rivers Show.
- Bacteria Salad, a video game where you try to grow and sell produce without giving your customers bacterial dysentery.
- Cells - They Might Be Giants
- How A Virus Invades Your Body animated video from NPR.
- Steps in Replication of T4 Phage in E. coli animated video and quiz from McGraw-Hill.
- HIV Replication animation and quiz from McGraw-Hill.
- Play “Sneeze”, an online game where the object is to infect as many people as possible with your coughs and sneezes.
- “Comparison of Cold & Flu Symptoms”, article, by T. Port.
You have free access to a large collection of materials used in a college-level introductory microbiology course. The Virtual Microbiology Classroom provides a wide range of free educational resources including PowerPoint Lectures, Study Guides, Review Questions and Practice Test Questions.
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The following is a collection of links to a variety of online resources useful in teaching and learning about microbiology.
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- Play Disease Defenders educational video game, Rice University.
- Normal Flora webpage, by Douglas F. Fix. Interactive page where you can select an area of the body and learn which normal flora typically colonize that location.
- Bacterial Pathogen Pronunciation Station, a webpage with links to audio files of the pronunciation of bacterial scientific names, created by Neal R. Chamberlain, Ph.D.
- The Virtual Microbiology Classroom from Science Prof Online.
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