In my Honors Biology class, when we are studying disruptions of homeostasis we do an antibiotic resistance game lab from New Vision's Living Environment curriculum. It's a fairly simple lab...just requiring colored disks and a die. It gives students a very visual way to see how inconsistent taking of antibiotics can affect the bacteria in their bodies.
This coming week, we're remote to mitigate any COVID spread after Christmas break, so I needed to convert the antibiotics lab to a remote version. Google Slides are one of my favorite tools when we're remote since I can see what all of my students are doing, even when they are in breakout rooms. I made slides for each breakout room with plenty of virtual disks. On the slide itself is the number of disks lab groups need to begin with. There are piles of spares on the side to use as needed.
Students will put their data into a shared Google Sheet and graph the data as well. I purposely left one of the tables filled in and highlighted to remind me to review with students that they need to add more bacteria after each day.
I have also adjusted the lab document from New Visions to fit my class. I'll link the lab, the Slides and Sheet below.
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