Virus and Bacteria Lesson Plan Day 5

Objectives:

• Students will review vocabulary and understand terms about Viruses and

Bacteria through review and working on a final project

Requirements (HSCEs)

• L2.p4A, B2.1A, B2.4A, B2.4C, B2.4h B2.4i, L4.p1A, L4.p1B, B4.1B,

B4.2B, B4.2C, B4.2D, B4.2F, B4.4a, B4.4b, B4.4c, B4.r5b and B4.3C

Resources:

• Comic Life Project Handout

• Computers

Opening:

What about viruses and bacteria is difficult for you to understand? What would

you like to review?

We!re starting a project using Comic Life today.

Instructional Flow:

15 min Questions and Review Viruses and Bacteria

75 min Work on Project

Closure:

We will be working on the Comic Life Project next class.

Assessment: Informal- Questions and understandings during the review and

while working on the project.

*This lesson is part of a sequence. The students have already participated in

lessons about bacteria and viruses.

Name____________________________

Partner __________________________

Block___________

FOS 3 Comic Life Bacteria vs. Virus Project Work individually or with a partner

Goal:

• To complete a comic book about a competition between bacteria and viruses.

• Your comic will highlight the qualities of bacteria and viruses, comparing and contrasting.

• You can create the comic from the perspective of a virus or a bacteria, or simply narrate a

story between the two.

• Include all of the key terms expressing how your pathogens characteristics create the

story you are telling. Make sure the reader of your comic or story understands the terms

in your comic.

• Use Comic Life to make your story. You should have a minimum of 4 pages.

Additionally, make a title page and include your names.

KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS:

Be sure to convey their meaning to the viewer.

The key terms and concepts must be explained, merely including them in the comic will not earn

you credit. See the list below to check-off as you include them in your story.

Bacteria Virus

• The structure of bacterial cells:

o Capsule

o Cell wall

o Cell membrane

o Genetic material

o Flagella

o Shapes (Bacillus, coccus,

spirilium)

• How Bacteria reprodce:

o Binary fission

• How Bacteria defend themselves or

cause disease:

o Endospore

o Toxin

o Conjugation

• How Bacteria obtain energy:

o Aerobic

o Anaerobic

o Photosynthetic

o Chemoautotroph

o Heterotroph

• The structure of a virus:

o Capsid

o Envelope

o Shapes (enveloped, helical,

polyhedral)

o Genetic material

• How Viruses replicate:

o Lytic Cycle

o Lysogenic Cycle

• Are Viruses alive?

• Viral-like pathogens:

o Viroids

o Prions

Name____________________________

Partner __________________________

Block___________

Bacteria vs. Virus Comic Life Project Checklist and Gradesheet

3pts=defined in context 2pt=defined only 1pt=used word 0pt=not used

Term Student Teacher

Capsule

Cell wall

Cell membrane

Genetic material of

bacteria

Flagella

3 shapes of bacteria

(Bacillus, coccus and

spirillum)

Binary fission

Endospore

Toxin

Conjugation

Aerobic

Anaerobic

Photosynthetic

Chemoautotroph

Heterotroph

Capsid

Envelope

Shapes of virus

Genetic material of

virus

Lytic cycle

Lysogenic cycle

Are Viruses alive?

Viroids

Prions

At least 4 pages long

Total Points ________________ ________________

75 points available

Introducing the bacteria sharks... ...rivals of the jetrovirues!

The leader of the bacteria sharks was named Big Daddy Coccus, named for his round shaped cell.

HIs daughter Bacilla Maria, named for her rod shape, was known around the town to have the longest flagella. it not only propelled her forward, but it made her the prettiest bachelorette.

im helical snowboy,

with a rod-shaped protein coat!

im polyhedral tiger, with a many sided

coat

and im enveloped riff, with a membrane

I am chino spirillum, a spiral shaped cell, and i want to marry bacilla maria! she makes me

want to split into two by binary fission!

she loved viral tony, a member of the jetroviruses.

she was first attracted to

viral tony when she saw his

fashionable envelope,

which covered his protein

capsid and was made from

parts of a host cell's

membrane in milan.

as she got to know him, she was able to look inside of him and see his capsid, a warm, spirited protein shell surrounding his viral genome or, as she called it, his heart.

I'm so hungry.

Let's eat!

You'll have to tell me about how you get

your energy...

...because i get mine from my host cell.

Well, bacteria can get energy in three different ways. some are

called chemautotrophs, and they take the hydrogen from ammonia, using the energy from breaking

the bond to function.

Other bacteria are heterotrophs, and

they are decomposers. they break down their host cells and other organic molecules for

energy.

The third group gets their energy

photosynthetically. they get theirs from

the sun.

Each of these groups can obtain

energy in an aerobic environment, where there is oxygen, or

in anaerobic environments,

meaning oxygen free.

Tell me more!

That's so hot!

That's so interesting! it reminds me of how cool my replication system is!

oh! go on!

There are two reproduction cycles. The

first is the lytic cycle which involves the viral

cell replicating and in the end the replicated cell

breaking open so that the new viral cell can infect

other host cells.

The other method involves some of the same steps and ends in the same way, but the viral dna becomes integrated with the

host cell's dna so that it duplicates with the host cell and produces more new viral

cells than the lytic cycle.plus, im cool because viruses can

have either dna or rna.

That's awesome! Can i tell you about when my brothers, the bacteria sharks first told me about my bacterial

body?

Flashback.........

Well Bacilla maria, our cell

wall protects us and gives us

shape. Our Cell Membrane

regulates our movement in and

out of other cells.

Our beautiful capsules are also important because they protect our cell and assist us as we attach to surfaces. But remember that none of this would matter without

our genetic information, Dna!

...end flashback

How cute!

But oh no! look at the time!

It's almost midnight! I have to go

home!

And where have you been, young

lady??

i was out with my new friend viral tony... im so sorry i was late big daddy,

nothing happened i

he is a virus? I cant believe this!

why would you want to be with someone who

isn't even alive and can infect

through bacteriaphage? you have been blinded by his

envelope which he uses as a

camouflage.

What do you mean he isnt alive? do you mean that he can't metabolize or grow or go

through homeostasis and can only reproduce inside of a host cell?

that's exactly what i mean. i don't want you seeing him anymore. and i want you to beware of his cousins, viroid and prion. viroid is a circular

molecule of rna and prion is a protein with no genome and both

are infectious.

but big daddy, i think this could be the start of something new. i love him!

you shouldn't worry about me because i can defend myself and cause disease

too! if conditions get harsh i can always create an endospore, which is a thick wall around my chromosomes.

or i can excrete my poisonous chemicals called toxins.

It was too late. Big daddy coccus had already sent the bacteria sharks to kill viral tony.

Bacilla maria was so distressed she went and bought antibiotics and killed herself.