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Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology

Subject Area:

Science

Address/URL:

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/index.html

Description:

Find out about microbes in your community. Learn about them in the news, meet the scientists who study them, and visit them in the zoo. Discover how microorganisms are responsible for processes that are helpful to or sometimes essential for the health and survival of humans on Earth.

How You Can Use This Source:

Find stories in local papers about microbes and discuss whether they are heroic, ancient, dangerous, and/or strange.
Explore the microbe zoo and think of places you know that microbes are likely to live.
Make some youghurt, start a compost pile, or check out a pond and observe microbes at work.

Go to Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology.