I am playing with the course content for science investigation. We can enter into the world of waste and chemicals, but I also want to address the sheer diversity of bacteria and viruses that can be found in the environment. Microbes and viruses represent an interaction between humans and their environment. The Microbes Count curriculum provides a sequence of topics for examining this:
Microorganisms in the Environment
8. Microbial Ecology: Microorganisms as processors of oxygen, nutrients and waste; important environments dominated by microbes; the essential role of microbes in human life.
9. Microbial Control: Controlling microbes in special situations, e.g., food safety and hospitals; strategies used in microbial control.
Microorganisms and Human Life
10. Microbial Interactions: Symbiotic relationships among microbes; relationships between microbes and higher organisms.
11. Human Defenses: Strategies used by invading microbial pathogens; exploration of the coordinated human defense system through visual analogy, animation and examples of specific diseases.
12. Microbes and Human Diseases: Microbial and human encounters that result in disease; factors in disease outbreaks; current efforts to track infectious diseases and control disease worldwide.
I will try to figure out if these materials are available through open source.
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