Curated OER
Antibodies and the Immune Response Lesson Plans - Biology Teaching Thesis
Students are introduced to bacteria and their role in biology and finishes with a lab experiment that focuses on antibiotics. They are given an overview of the important concepts involving bacteria and their potential resistance to...
Curated OER
Medical Help for Microbe Attacks
Students discuss sicknesses and how medications have been designed to combat microbial illnesses. They review microbial groups and learn more about treatment of microbial illness. After viewing the lab students conclude that antibiotics...
Curated OER
Antibiotic Resistance
Students using the scientific method, study bacteria as a covering surface of the earth in many forms. They discover that not all bacteria is bad and introduce the topic of antibiotic resistance. Science Fair expectations are addressed.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Epidemiology, Public Health, and You
Activities in this comprehensive interactive tutorial will help you explore various public health careers. In addition, you will learn about why ethical guidelines are necessary in epidemiological research; emerging and past public...
Other
University of Cincinnati: Project Step: Antibiotics
STEM biology lesson where by designing their own antibiotics, students will gain an understanding of how the differences between prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells have played a role in their own health. They will also be able to...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Activity 1: Evolution and Antibiotic Resistance
This page contains three student activities for learning about evolution of antibiotic resistance. The first activity involves two videos (freely available on the website), follow-up questions, and classroom discussion. The second...
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Resisting Antibiotics
The Why? Files have provided information related to antibiotic resistant viruses. New antibiotics have been created to battle the ever-changing virus.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Why Does Evolution Matter Now?
Discover how evolution affects your world and how understanding evolution can help solve problems in medicine, agriculture, and the environment. Investigate the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.
BioMan Biology
Bio Man Biology: Conflict: Immunity
Tutorial and game on vocabulary and functions of the immune system. Covers different cell types, immune responses, germs and pathogens, and antibiotics.
Other
Do Bugs Need Drugs?: Antibiotics Guide
This non-profit organization provides information for healthcare professionals, the public, teachers, parents, children, daycares and assisted living sites.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Are Antibiotics
This entry provides a brief but in depth explanation of antiobiotics and how they function within the human body.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Bacteria and Humans
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the benefits of and diseases caused by bacteria.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: How Can We Treat Disease? Ocr 21 C
This lesson focuses on Antibiotics including what they are, how they work, and antibiotic resistance. It also briefly discusses pain killers and viral diseases; it also provides a link to a test.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Microbes: What They Do & How Antibiotics Change Them
Check out what can happen when antibiotics and antibacterial washes and wipes are over used in this article and supporting resources and activities.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Clindamycin Resistance in Staphylococcus Aureus
Read this passage and study the graphics to complete a five-question quiz related to the structure, growth, physiology and genetics of prokaryotes and viruses.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cefoxitin Disk Diffusion Versus Mec a Pcr for Mrsa Detection
Read the passage and study the graphics about Cefoxitin disk diffusion versus mecA PCR for MRSA detection, and then complete the five-question quiz.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Antibiotic Resistance?
Antibiotic resistance describes a bacteria's ability to survive while being exposed to antibiotics. Topics explored are the following: How does antibiotic resistance develop exactly?; How do we measure antibiotic resistance?; How...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Antibiotic Resistance
A brief discussion of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work
This particular site discusses the surge in drug-resistant bacteria, and what you can do to prevent one from using you as a petri dish.
Science Daily
Science Daily: Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. It is a specific type of drug resistance. Antibiotic resistance evolves naturally via natural selection through random mutation, but it...