Microbiology Rocks!

This is my story of the development of a high school level Microbiology class specifically targeted to Health Science and STEM students at Hardin Valley Academy in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Yeast Lab day 2

Today was the day the students took their petri dishes that they had sprinkled yeast onto the agar in and made a wet mount slide from the ye...

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Yeast Lab Followup

I need to order some 7" balloons before I do this lab again. Since Party City went out of business, I haven't been able to find th...

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Is Yeast Alive? First Lab of the New Semester

I almost messed up today! Tomorrow is the first lab of the new fall semester--a lab titled Is Yeast Alive? I got this lab on the internet ...

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Is Yeast Alive? Lab

This is the first lab I run every semester because it can be done with just yeast before fees have been collected to purchase organisms with...

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Infectious Disease Simulation

This activity was great fun and really drove home how rapidly infectious disease can spread throughout a community. I used the small plasti...

Differential and Selective Media Lab

This lab worked beautifully! We used Staphylococcus epidermidis, E. coli, Serratia marcescens, and Enterobacter aerogenes. All of them res...

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

MacConkey and EMB agar

Next week's lab on Differential and Selective Media calls for MacConkey and EMB agar. I made 800 mL of both this morning. MacConkey--40 ...

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About Me

Tami: Who am I? I am an avid hiker and also love to fly-fish, especially in small mountain streams. I've been married for over 25 years and have raised two great kids. Until recently, I was a science teacher at a progressive high school in Tennessee, primarily teaching Anatomy/Physiology and Microbiology. I love teaching and trying to make science interesting for my students. This past year, I became Science Instructional Coach for my school district, and as such, work with all the science teachers in the county. My love for science spills over into my private life as well. The outdoors has always been my favorite place to be! My favorite place on earth is in the Great Smoky Mountains where I just feel like I am where I'm supposed to be. My alter ego was once an English teacher, and I supposed it is this part of me that makes me write. This is something I simply have to do to keep my sanity at times. Hopefully you will enjoy some of my ramblings.

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