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= = = = =Curriculum projects= These projects were submitted by class participants; the assignment was to adapt something related to the course content for their own class.

I plan to include a unit on Detection of Mad Cow Disease, agarose electrophoresis gel procedure to determine if any of the ten feed samples contain bovine protein.
 * Brian Guthman**
 * Detection of Mad Cow Disease**

Soil Microbes** I will be including labs on the succession of microbes and soil bacteria in a unit for my Environmental Science Course.
 * Arlaina Meyer

Making the Cheese Production Process More Scientific** We plan on taking the cheese making process more inquiry based and have the students look from the perspective that they are creating a new cheese from an existing recipe and how changing things will impact the final project.
 * Adam Wehling and Bob Ickler

Serial Dilutions** I am planning on making a lab that will incorporate serial dilutions into my soil science, animal science and vet science that will allow studnets to estimate the number of bacteria in a given sample of soil, cheese, yogurt or their table. Bonus:
 * Mark Cournoyer

Bacteria and Biotechnology** I am planning on incorporating the soil test that we had done in this class into my Bacteria and Viruses Unit. I think that this lab will be beneficial for the students and excite them by seeing what is right out in their back yards!
 * Jodie Abel

Analysis of DNA using the Internet** I am planning on creating an activity for the students to use an internet database to analyze the source of a DNA sequence.
 * Kris Flesberg

Bacteria in Agricultural Applications** I am planning to incorporate the dillutions that we used in this class in both my Forestry and Aquaculture class. With the Forestry class, we will look at the bacteria in the soil, and with my Aquaculture class, we will look at the nitrifying bacteria in our biological filter. I think in both cases, it is good for students to understand the army of organisms that are needed to keep the system/ecosystem running properly
 * Nathan Papendorf

Is your water safe?** I am planning to have my lesson for a wildlife class. It will have testing of water samples that will be cultured a plated. We will also go through how to purify water and compare the amount of bacteria growth.
 * Crystal Meier

Fermentation in Foods** I am planning on adding food fermentations to my food science class adding pickle fermentation.
 * Brad Gefvert

Your Genes, Your Choices** We will be sharing an activity based on an on-line book that consists of 8 chapters that deals with 8 different applications of genetic engineering and the ethical and social issues surrounding those applications.
 * Lisa & Greg Vossekuil

Oil-Eating Microbes** I plan to utilize the Simulated Oil Spill Cleanup activity in an Ecolgy class. Can tie in the Prince William Sound oil spill and the attempts that were made to clean the spill and teh envoronmental impacts.
 * June Strupp

Enzymes Activity in Detergents** I am planning on using a couple enzyme activities in my biochemistry unit to stress their function and utilization in consumer products.
 * Theresa Ellefson

Plant Tissue Culture** We are developing a plant tissue culture activity for use in our horticulture classes.
 * Scott Imrie & Dave Kruse

DNA isolation** I plan on updating my DNA isolation lab and to incorporate white boarding with the activity
 * Shawn Howe

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)** We will be sharing a couple different labs that can be intergrated into a Wildlife, Environmental Science, or Biology class. We will be looking at the basic information of CWD, what lives in the soil and how it relates to CWD, how CWD is spread, testing and tracking CWD, and the future of CWD.
 * Andrea Hanson & Laura Hasselquist

Living Soil** Students will be able to see for themselves that soil is a living substance by culturing bacteria.
 * Christa Van Treeck

Yeast Growth** This is a scientific experiment to observe how yeast populations are affected by a number of different factors
 * Kyle Igou