Curated OER
Louis Pasteur & Germ Theory
Germ Theory revolutionized the medical industry and our understanding of bacteria and the human body. Presented is a series of facts and history on Louis Pasteur his discoveries and how they changed beliefs in the scientific community....
Virginia Department of Education
The Germ Theory and Koch’s Postulates
Explore the history of cholera and its effect on society with your biology class. Young biologists will then proceed to grow their own germs, prepared from live cultures, and follow the steps of the scientific method to generate data....
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Diseases
During a cholera outbreak, scientists presented two theories; one theory was based on miasma and the other on germs and contaminated water. The lesson looks at the scientific process for finding the real culprit.
Curated OER
Treatment Through Time
Seventh graders explore how disease prevention and treatment changed throughout history. For this life science lesson, 7th graders create a classroom exhibit about this topic. They present their project to visitors.
Curated OER
Medicine Through Time Giant Crossword
In this recognizing the history of medicine crossword worksheet, students use the across and down clues to review medicine, diseases, and people through time. Students write 31 answers.
Curated OER
What's That Brown Fuzzy Stuff on My Plum?
Students use Koch's Postulates to determine that a specific organism is the root cause of a specific disease and identify what Koch's Postulates are within a protocol. They describe symptoms and signs of diseased fruit and isolate fungal...
Curated OER
Hippocratic Medical Rounds
A very interesting way to model Hippocrates allows your clas to to compare world views and to illustrate how ideas have changed at key times throughout the history of science. This simulation has students role play patients and physicians.
Curated OER
What's That Brown Fuzzy Stuff On My Plum?
Learners examine Koch's Postulates by actually using them. They perform each of the required four steps to show that the brown fuzzy fungus they see growing on stone fruit (plums, peaches, nectarines, cherries) is what causes them to rot.
University of Waterloo (Canada)
The Concept of Disease: Historical Developments
Contains information on scientific developments surrounding diseases. Includes the following sections: Hippocrates and the Humoral Theory; Fracastoro and the Contagion Theory; Pasteur, Lister, Koch and the Germ Theory; and Current...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Scientific Theories
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Today most people realize that microorganisms, such as bacteria or viruses, are the cause of disease. This concept is known as the germ theory of disease, one of the...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Louis Pasteur
This page presents the text of Louis Pasteur's "Germ Theory and its Applications to Medicine and Surgery" (1878). It provides information about the origin of the germ theory of disease.
Morning Earth
Biosphere Community: Microbes: Germs
Scholars explore the science topic of germs. The tutorial consists of definitions, examples, and pictures about germ theory.
University of Arizona
Pulse: Disease & Epidemics: Architects of History
A 10 week interdisciplinary unit plan on disease and epidemics.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How a Few Scientists Transformed the Way We Think About Disease
For several centuries, people though diseases were caused by wandering clouds of poisonous vapor. We now know that this theory is pretty ridiculous, and that diseases are caused by specific bacteria. But how did we get to this new idea...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Germ Theory Jeopardy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a Jeopardy game where students will review and discuss the development of the Germ Theory, as well as cell organelles and bacterial and viral diseases.
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Med Myst: Peril in Prokaryon
This is the second in a series of five missions in the MedMyst series adventure games. Students will conduct field and laboratory investigations to solve the problem they are given, while playing the role of detective, scientist, and...
Other
Hartford University: History of Epidemics and Plagues
This resource provides information on epidemics, how they occur, and how they spread.
Other
Schools History: Louis Pasteur
A brief discussion of Pasteur's theory that germs in the air were the cause of disease rather than the result of disease.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Louis Pasteur
A chemist and biologist, born in dole, department of Jura, France, Dec. 27, 1822; died Sept. 28, 1895. He is known most famously for his demonstrations supporting the germ theory of disease and his vaccinations, most notably the first...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Louis Pasteur
A French chemist who created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax, as well as supported the germ theory of disease through his various experiments. He invented the method of pasteurization.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Louis Pasteur
An introduction to the life and achievements of the great scientist Louis Pasteur. (In Spanish)