Result of bacteria poll

what I have done so far

I helped Amanda and Ray on the Poll. I have tested the Rocket Car with Greg. Also, I helped builded the four different cars.

Poll answers updated

1.            a. What is Bacteria

- A group of unicellular organisms lacking organelles

- Bacteria- 5

- Cell

- Diseases- 3 
- Fungus-8 

- Germs-9

- Gross stuff-5  

 - No idea-7

- Organism- 16

- Something that grows good or bad-2 

b. Where does it come from

- Air

- Cellular reproduction

- Coming in contact with something dirty

- Grows every where-8  

- Multiplies its self-3

- Nutrients

- Pathogens

- Plants- 1 

- Spread by humans animal and bugs– 4

- Touched surfaces

- Warm conditions

2.         Animals

Bathrooms- 30

Body-6

Boy’s locker room- 4

Cell phones- 5

Chairs -3

Classes-3

Computers

Dinning hall-8

Door handles- 21

Dorms-13 

Floors-2

Gym– 3

Gym equipment-3

Health center-4 

Keyboards- 13

Kitchen-4

Mouth-2

Outdoors-3

Plates

Railings- 2

Remotes

River-2 
Snack bar

Shoe -2

Shower-3

Sink – 6

Sponges-2

Tables- 7

Tooth brush

Toilet-10

Trash can- 3

Trees-3

Water fountain -3

3	Key boards- 17	Door Handles 34	Cell phones 15	Sink Handles-11
4	Purell-11	Hot water- 33	Soap-30
5	yes- 46	no- 21	maybe- 6
6	yes-5	No- 46	Some times- 22

Project Work

The kits

Homework 4/25/12

Mr. Funnell - Commons Amy - Chase Amanda - Lodge Ray - Lewis Greg - Moris / Newton Pat - Hopkins Cole - Hamilton Jake - Giles / Beecher Ryan - Baile / Childress

Homework 4/24/12

Ray and Amanda: Answer the questions that you assigned yourself in class. Post to Blog

Cole, Patrick, Jake: Research and Read Maglev Train Procedure, post to blog

Amy, Greg, Ryan: Answer the questions that you assigned yourself in class, post to blog.

Areas that we should test by Cole

1. phones- students or AOD - classroom phones - funnels cell
2. bathroom doornbos.
3. top of Purell plunger
4. hair ties
5. dining hall - plates - tables - chairs -cups - trays
6. sport items
7. washing machine
8. Funnell's mouth vs. Dog's mouth
9. stream water
10. foist water
11. dry erase marker
12. doller bull new/old
13. his apartment per square inch

Materials list

By Amanda Berger and Ray Pioppo


As a class, we currently have...
10 cotton swabs
400 mL of nutrient agar (2 bottles- 200 mL each)
20 petri dishes
and
Our intelligent brains :)

Agar agar is?

Agar agar is a gel substance used a a nutrient and is a medium for growing bacteria for testing.

Question for the poll Ryan Lowe

Where is bacteria mostly found on campus?
Can you kill bacteria?
If you can how will you kill bacteria?

Questions for the Poll, Jake Sussman

In your opinion what parts of the school do you think are most bacteria? 

Choose from the following?

Bathrooms
drinking fountains
Keyboards
Door handles

Potential Problems

Greg brought up a great question..

1. How are we going to count the amount of bacteria that it collected?

Also..

2. What will our data sheets include?

Poll Questions- Amanda Berger

-                Where do you think there are the most bacteria on campus?

-                What would you to get rid of bacteria? 

-         How do you find bacteria?

-        What is Bacteria? 

Potential questions for all school poll- Ray Pioppo

What do you think bacteria is?

Where do you think bacteria is most found on the Forman campus?

Do you think bacteria exists only in cold places? Or only in hot locations?

How do you kill bacteria?

What makes bacteria grow?

What are Bacteria (example)

Bacteria (pl), or bacterium (s) are tiny microorganisms. One cannot categorize them as either plants or animals. Bacteria are single celled organisms that lack a nucleus (prokaryotic). They are only a few micrometers in length and generally exist in colonies of millions. They have the ability to be mobile thanks to their flagella and may often be found in soil, water, organic matter and the bodies of plants and animals.

The shape of bacteria varies, they can be spherical (cocci), rod shaped (bacilli) or spiral.

History

Single celled microorganisms appeared on earth about 4 billion years ago, and many say that they were the first life forms on Earth. The first two dominant forms were Bacteria and Achaea.

Cool Fact: Planet earth is estimated to hold at least 5 nonillion bacteria !! (^30)

Research

Research on magnets. Comment on what u find.

Homework 4/23/12

In order to make a hypothesis for our group experiment we need to do some background research. This research should be posted to the blog so that we can all be "on the same page"..

Questions

1. What is Bacteria? (Jake)
   
2. How do you collect bacteria? (Amanda)
   
3. What is agar agar or culture media? (Cole)
   
4. List commonly found bacteria? (Ryan)
   
5. Common places to find bacteria? (Amy)
   
6. What creates bacteria? (Patrick)
   
7. What are the effects of bacteria? (Ray)
   
8. How does bacteria effect your daily life? (Greg)
   
9. What questions should we use to poll the school? (Everyone)
   

Teamwork

You as a class/team have chosen the following characteristics/ideas to base your "teamwork" on for the rest of this module. These should be respected and followed each day in order to have the best possible project and make efficient use of you time.

• Communication and listening (primarily)
• Trust (and rely on a partner)
  
• Respect (mutual)
• Sharing (distribute the workload)
• Knowing each others strengths and weaknesses
  
• Roles
• Organization (plan and outline)
• Understanding / Helping