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Learners demonstrate safe ways to handle bacteria, prepare agar plates, and grow bacterial cultures. They identify different kinds of bacterial colonies, and devise a controlled experiment.

Students explore how our bodies fight infection. Using a microscope, they observe red blood cells, white blood cells and different bacteria under a microscope.

Learners experiment in order to determine proper ways to disinfect hands to prevent the spread of infection.

Students explain the relationship among nutrition, infection and diseases. In this health science lesson plan, students suggest ways to break the nutrition-infection cycle. They brainstorm solutions to prevent infectious diseases in the...

Students watch a video about the spread and biology of HIV/AIDS. They discuss white blood cell counts and ways the disease is transmitted and ways it cannot be transmitted. They draw a battle between the HIV and the immune system.

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Describes research to create bandages that contain an antibiotic. The bandages fool bacteria into attacking them, which releases the antibiotic and attacks the bacteria.

Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over microorganisms, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.

Take an interactive quiz over viruses. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.

Understand the HIV virus that causes AIDS.