Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Planets in a Bottle

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners experiment with yeast. In this environmental conditions lesson plan students test the viability of samples of yeast. Learners investigate the effects of environmental conditions on the yeast.
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Observing Different Microbes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students prepare slides of and examine three types of common microbes using a light microscope, recording what they observe. The lesson and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. An accompanying instructional video is 22 min. 36 sec.