Primary: Microbe Investigations
Produced by the Health Protection Agency and e-Bug, these practical investigations use readily available resources and will help students to understand the topic of microbes and their growth. The investigations include: • Kitchen investigators - where can you find the most microbes in your kitchen? • Microbe garden…
Primary: Hand Hygiene
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource looks at how harmful microbes can be spread by contact and how good handwashing can help to prevent this spread. Extensive teacher guidance, stimulus materials and students' activity sheets are included in the resource. In the activities, children carry out…
Secondary: Vaccines
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-bug resource contains teacher guidance, stimulus materials and student activity suggestions. It looks at the topic of disease prevention through vaccinations. In the main activity students take part in a simulation to see how vaccines are used to prevent the spread of infections…
Secondary: Useful Microbes
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource contains teacher guidance, stimulus materials and student activity suggestions. It looks at useful microbes by examining the various ways and means we can utilise them for our benefit. Through a yoghurt-making activity, students observe at first hand how microbes can…
Secondary: Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-bug resource contains teacher guidance, stimulus materials and student activity suggestions. In this activity, students consider how sexual activity can lead to the spread of microbes and disease. It highlights how sexually transmitted infections (STI) can potentially transfer harmful…
Secondary: Respiratory Hygiene
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-bug resource contains teacher guidance, stimulus materials and student activity suggestions. This resource aims to teach students how poor respiratory hygiene can lead to the spread of microbes and disease by coughs and sneezes. Students use a 'sneeze-gun' to observe…
Secondary: Introduction to Microbes
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource contains teacher guidance, stimulus materials and student activity suggestions. These materials help students become familiar with the various types and shapes of microbes through an interactive learning card game. An accompanying extension activity reinforces…
Secondary: Immune Defences
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-bug resource contains teacher guidance, stimulus materials and student activity suggestions. It looks at the topic of disease prevention by the body’s own natural defences. A detailed presentation and animations showing how the body fights harmful microbes on a daily basis.…
Secondary: Harmful Microbes
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource contains teacher guidance, stimulus materials and student activity suggestions. It looks at a variety of infectious diseases caused by harmful microbes. Students are required to act as scientists and group a range of diseases under different headings. By carrying out…
Secondary: Hand Hygiene
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource contains teacher guidance, stimulus materials and student activity suggestions. It considers the need for effective hand washing to limit the spread of infections. Students carry out an experiment to observe how microbes can spread from person to person simply by shaking…
Secondary: Antibiotics and Medicines
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-bug resource contains teacher guidance, stimulus materials and student activity suggestions. It looks at the treatment of infection by exploring the use of antibiotics and medicine in treating illness and infectious disease. In a practical activity, acids and bases in agar plates…
Primary: Vaccination
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource helps students to understand the process of vaccination and how it uses the body's immune system to help protect from harmful infections. Teacher guidance, stimulus materials and students' activity sheets are included. The materials include a students'…
Primary: Useful Microbes
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource helps to show children some of the useful microbes. Extensive teacher guidance, stimulus materials and students' activity sheets help students to investigate the growth of yeast in the breadmaking process. An alternative is the use of bacteria to produce yoghurt…
Primary: Respiratory Hygiene
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource helps students consider how infections can be spread by coughs and sneezes. The materials consist of teacher guidance, students' activity sheets and stimulus materials. In this activity, children use a 'sneeze-gun' to investigate how far germs are carried…
Primary: Introduction to Microbes
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource is an introduction to microbes that is suitable for primary aged students. Extensive teacher guidance, stimulus materials and students' activity sheets help to cover topics including: • The most common types of microbe (bacteria, viruses and fungi). •…
Primary: Harmful Microbes
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource introduces students to the ideas that some microbes can be harmful and cause ill-health. The resource includes extensive teacher guidance, stimulus materials and students' activity sheets. Students are encouraged to discuss as a class how some microbes can be…
Primary: Food Hygiene
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource helps students to consider how poor food hygiene can allow the spread of food-poisoning microbes. The materials include teacher guidance, stimulus materials and students' activity sheets. In the activity, children investigate how easily potentially harmful microbes…
Primary: Body Defences (Immunity)
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource helps students to look at the different ways the body defends itself against harmful infections. Extensive teacher guidance and stimulus materials help to cover topics including: • How the skin forms a barrier that prevents microbes entering the body • How…
Primary: Antibiotics and Medicine
Produced by the Health Protection Agency, this e-Bug resource explores the use of antibiotics and medicine in treating various illnesses and disease. Through a cartoon, students consider a range of scenarios in which the two characters, Amy and Harry, are exposed to germs during their school day. Students discuss the various…