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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Rise to the Occasion: Investigating Yeast Fermentation

For Students 3rd - 8th
Did you ever wonder how yeast makes bread dough rise? This project will show you what yeast does to make this happen. You'll also investigate the conditions yeast needs to grow.
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Bio Topics

Bio Topics: Demonstrate the Effect of Temperature on Fermentation by Yeast

For Students 7th - 9th
Using grape juice as the yeast's food, this lab experiment allows students to test the effect of temperature on yeast fermentation.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Yeast Reproduction in Sugar Substitutes

For Students 9th - 10th
There's nothing quite like the smell of fresh-baked bread to make your mouth water. As any baker can tell you, you can't bake bread without yeast. This project makes clever use of bread dough to measure yeast reproduction three different...
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Bryn Mawr College

Serendip: Alcoholic Fermentation in Yeast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A text summary of what students learn in the Alcoholic Fermentation in Yeast lab, along with links to download Student Handouts and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF or Word formats. Aerobic cellular respiration and alcoholic fermentation...
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Bio Topics

Bio Topics: To Monitor the Progress of Fermentation of Different Sugars by Yeast

For Students 9th - 10th
In this classroom lab experiment students measure progress of sugar fermentation by yeast using a hydrometer.
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Activity
Bio Topics

Bio Topics: To Show the Effects of Temperature on Fermentation by Yeast

For Students 6th - 9th
In this classroom lab experiment, students measure the effects of temperature on yeast growth and reproduction.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Yeasty Beasties

For Students 3rd - 8th
While looking at a package of dry yeast it is hard to believe it is alive. But add the right ingredients and presto, the mixture becomes a bubbly, oozing, mess of life. What are the right ingredients? Do this experiment and figure it out...
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Cellular Respiration and Population Growth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two lessons and their associated activities explore cellular respiration and population growth in yeasts. Yeast cells are readily obtained and behave predictably, so they are very appropriate to use in middle school classrooms. In the...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Do Bread and Beer Have in Common?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are presented with information that will allow them to recognize that yeasts are unicellular organisms that are useful to humans. In fact, their usefulness is derived from the contrast between the way yeast cells and human cells...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Mitochondria "The Powerhouse of the Cell"

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this lesson and lab activity, learners learn about digestion and fermentation, and watch a demonstration of cellular respiration in yeast. Includes numerous real-world connections, e.g., how fermentation is used by humans.
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University of Missouri

Umsl: Microbes in Action: Classroom Activities: Fungus I [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A science experiment to observe the rate of carbon dioxide gas produced by yeast. Students will get a visual of the process of fermentation. Lesson plan gives a lab procedure, teacher instructions, points for discussion, and additional...

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