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Activities | When bugs have you on the run

  • Science and our food supply - middle school guide (US Food and Drug Administration)
    • Module 4 - retail and home – students examine the preparation of food in retail food-service establishments and in the home through a series of lessons and activities. Activities include team 'management' of a supermarket department and culture of bacteria from hamburgers cooked at different temperatures.

  • Access Excellence (USA)

  • Newton's Apple (USA)

  • National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (University of Buffalo, USA)

  • Seeing Science (Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, UK)
    • Keeping food safe – two lessons to teach pupils about food preservation techniques and the growth of microbes.
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