1.
Inoculate sterile nutrient agar with bacteria from the local environment
2. Work as a class to make
1 million dots then calculate how long it would take working together to
understand how big a million is when considering a colony of bacteria
3. Calculate reproductive
potential of bacteria & graph the
exponential growth of
bacteria
1.
Make
observations about bacterial growth in Petri dishes and compare the
growth of the bacteria from the other plates inoculated from
different locations
2.
Review the characteristics of
Bacteria
reading
Text Ch. 7:
p.186-201 and completing
p.
19. Bacteria Notes
3.
Science Journal: explain what
exponential means and how the shape of the graph explains how bacteria reproduce
