Making Your Own Experiment -- What Fun?

Starting with a basic recipe for making bread students explore the combination of ingredients that results in a loaf of bread. From that simple biotechnology activity students are then given... See More

Starting with a basic recipe for making bread students explore the combination of ingredients that results in a loaf of bread. From that simple biotechnology activity students are then given the opportunity to change some ingredient from the original experiment, predict what they expect to see happen and then after approval from the teacher proceed to do their version with the warning that a control is necessary. This activity is presented in full. Creating their own experiment really engages students.

Bread making in the classroom

This is a nice article that scaffolds student experiences using yeast. Students are provided initial investigations designed to help students understand how yeast works and its requirement... See More

This is a nice article that scaffolds student experiences using yeast. Students are provided initial investigations designed to help students understand how yeast works and its requirements. After completing those background experiments, students then generate and use provided questions to do further investigations applying the concepts of how yeast works to bread making. Simple easy materials used in this investigation.

Nice Inquiry activity

The article provides a nice semi guided inquiry activity for middle school students. I like the initial guidance that allows for students that do not have experience with how yeast behanves... See More

The article provides a nice semi guided inquiry activity for middle school students. I like the initial guidance that allows for students that do not have experience with how yeast behanves to get them started. In addition, this lab could be used also as part of an investigation as to what living things need to survive.