This activity teaches students that to fight infectious diseases, we need to understand how the microbes that cause them spread from person to person.
They will carry out an experiment using a ‘nutrient broth’, a food for microbes, to test which conditions allow bacteria to spread.
This resource forms one part of a topic on ‘Fighting Back’. You can watch a video on Malaria on the GSK STEM Education website, here, and find the other four resources at these links:
- Lab Activity 1: Infection Transmission
- Lab Activity 2: Developing a Vaccine
- Independent Learning 1: Tuberculosis
- Independent Learning 2: Newborns
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Fighting Back Lab Activity 3: Grow Microbes – for KS3 Science
