PROTISTS

Ameoba
Parameceum
Euglena
Volvox

MICROBES IN THE HUMAN BODY

Make a table with the following three columns. Fill it out by visiting the link Bacteria in your body that keep you healthy.

1. Places in your body where it is normal for bacteria to live.
2. Names of bacteria that live in each place in your body.
3. Purpose (or function) of each bacteria in your body.

MICROBES

Cells Alive! How Big is a virus? a bacteria? a protist? a cell? Visit this website to see relative sizes of microorganisms.

Click on the links to the following microbes. Find 1-2 examples of each classification of microbe: Protist (Protazoan), Bacteria, and Virus.

Make a table with a column for each type of microbe. Each column should include:
1. Drawing of microbe
2. Features of each microbe (shape, size, how it moves, where it lives)
3. Disease caused by microbe or usefulness of microbe.

Smallpox(Variola)
Anthrax
E-Coli
HIV
Staphylococcus
Paramecium
Protists
Protozoa
Stentor

MICROORGANISMS

Use Brain Pop to learn about Microorganisms!
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User Name: mrs.frick6
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In Brain Pop choose
SCIENCE
DIVERSITY OF LIFE
Do the activities and quizzes for the following lessons in Brain Pop
email quiz results to pfrick@op97.org
PROTISTS
PROTOZOA
BACTERIA


Protists and how they move Overview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCfg3sywC7k&feature=related

Ameoba using pseudopods 
Euglena using Flagella
Paramecium using Cilia
Volvox using Cilia

Root Words Quiz #9: Microbes

scope - look, see
compound - together, made up of more than one part
microbe - a microscopic thing
organism - an individual life form
microorganism - a microscopic life form
protist - a one celled microorganism that has a nucleus, is motile, and can reproduce on its own
bacteria - a one celled microorganism that does NOT have a nucleus, is motile, and can reproduce on its own
virus - a microbe, non-living, not made up of a cell, no nucleus, is not motile, cannot reproduce on its own
immune - to protect
HIV - Human Immunodeficiency virus, causes the immune system to stop working well, causes AIDS

Polio Virus

Answer questions 1-3 can be answered by visiting one of the following websites.
Answer questions 4-8 by reading the newspaper article from the Chicago Tribune given out in class from Thursday, Jan 22 Section 1 page 15 Gates throws millions at polio.
Polio Virus
Polio Eradication
1. What is Polio?
2. How is Polio spread?
3. How is Polio prevented? What happened in 1955 that helped prevent Polio?
4. What has changed about the prevalence of Polio in the world since 1988?
5. What countries does Polio still thrive in?
6. Why do you think it still thrives in these countries?
7. Why is it a concern to OUR health if Polio is not eradicated in those countries?
8. How do the prevalence of Polio and Smallpox compare?

MICROORGANISMS

Bacteria

A virtual Pond Dip: Looking at Microbes

Microbe Zoo

The Pellegra Story

Pellegra Story Video

This video segment from A Science Odyssey profiles Dr. Joseph Goldberger and his search for a cure for pellagra, a poorly understood disease that ravaged the American South in the early 1900s.

Another Pellegra Video and questions can be found here.

Independent Study Group:

Use one of the following websites to find additional information about Dr. Joseph Goldberger. Write a short paragraph about something you found interesting about this scientist.

Dr. Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra

Read biographical information and view photos of Dr. Joseph Goldberger, a physician in the U.S. government’s Hygienic Laboratory (predecessor of the National Institutes of Health).

PBS’s A Science Odyssey: Dr Joseph Goldberger

See more information on Dr. Joseph Goldberger from PBS’s People and Discoveries.

AAAAACHOOOOOO! Is it a cold or is it an allergy?

Go to one or two of the following links to learn the difference . Then define each of the following vocabulary words:

allergen
allergy
antibodies
antigen
hay fever
histamine
immune system
mast cell
pollen
rhinovirus
virus

Cold, Flu, Allergies
Common Cold
Cold, Flu, Allergies
Kids' Health: Cold
What's a Virus?
Fact Sheet: Common Cold

Complete one of the following Cold/Allergy Activities:

Create a flowchart to compare and contrast the body's reaction (symptoms) to an allergen and to a virus. Use both text and symbols/pictures and the vocabulary terms above to explain:
1. the antigen entering the body
2. the immune system's various reactions
3. the body's physical reactions (symptoms)
4. how the body heals

Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use the vocabulary terms above to explain:
1. If you have a runny nose, fever, sore throat, and headache, how might you be able to tell if
you have a cold or allergic reaction?
2. Why are people more susceptible to certain allergies at different times of the year?
3. Using what you know about how the common cold is transmitted, how might you try to
prevent catching a cold?

Write a SKIT
Diagnosing allergies and viral infections can be confusing, and their treatments are different. Write and perform a skit in which a mother takes her ill child to see the pediatrician. She wants medication for a cold, but the physician thinks it is an allergy. The physician tries to explain the difference to the mother and tells her what the she and the child should do to get better. Make sure the physician answers the mothers questions about:
- How a vaccine works
- How antihistamines work
- How antibiotics work
- Why rest is important
- Whether or not there is treatment for a virus and why or why not
- Why it is wise not to treat a fever
- How the common cold is spread