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Is Yeast Alive?

In the lab, Is Yeast Alive?, students evaluate whether the little brown grains of yeast obtained from the grocery store are alive by testing for metabolism and growth.

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We invite comments on this Hands-On Activity and the accompanying Teacher Preparation Notes, including suggestions for other teachers who are planning to use the activity, useful preparatory or follow-up activities, additional resources or any questions you have related to the activity, or a brief description of any problem you might have encountered. If you have a relevant Word document you would like to have posted on this comments page, such as a version of the protocol you have used in your classroom, or if you would prefer to send your comments or questions in a private message, please write Ingrid Waldron at iwaldron@sas.upenn.edu.

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Comments

How to save these docs on to My Google Drive?

Submitted by David Sacks (guest) on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 12:27am.

Folks,
Can anyone tell me how to save these docs as needed to my Google Drive?

Thanks,

David Sacks
NYC HS Sci Teacher

Saving docs to Google Drive

Submitted by Ann Dixon on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 5:34pm.

If you're using Chrome, this web page gives you step by step instructions:

https://www.howtogeek.com/285951/how-to-download-files-and-webpages-directly-to-google-drive-in-chrome/

For any browser, though, you can right-click on the link to download the file to your computer, and then upload to Google Drive, taking 2 steps to do it.

Hope this helps,
Ann

Which NGSS for "Is Yeast Alive"

Submitted by Michelle Mensinger (guest) on Tue, 03/22/2016 - 1:02am.

Hello, Could you direct me to where I can find the NGSS alignment for the "Is Yeast Alive"?

Thanks you, Michelle.

NGSS alignment

Submitted by iwaldron on Wed, 03/23/2016 - 5:41am.

I have not yet had time to align "Is Yeast Alive?" with NGSS. A yeast activity that is aligned with NGSS is "Alcoholic Fermentation in Yeast – A Bioengineering Design Challenge", available at /sci_edu/waldron/#fermentation. A list of our NGSS-aligned activities available at https://serendipstudio.org/exchange/bioactivities/NGSS/listing.

Thank you for your interest,

Ingrid Waldron

Somehow the "Is Yeast Alive"

Submitted by Serendip Visitor (guest) on Sun, 05/05/2013 - 2:55pm.

Somehow the "Is Yeast Alive" information has beed infected with spam. Thank you for your work however.

Thanks for your concern

Submitted by Ann Dixon on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 6:10pm.

Thanks for your concern, but the file has been scanned and is ok. Word macros are not necessarily spam, but nevertheless, I've replaced it with a clean copy. Best wishes!

thanks for this great idea

Submitted by koesbio (guest) on Mon, 11/12/2012 - 10:20am.

thanks for this great idea really inspires me, i'm biology teacher from the city of Surabaya, Indonesia

Great!

Submitted by J.R. (guest) on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 11:26am.

Thank you for the idea. I was looking for some activity to illustrate both the characteristics of living beings and the scientific method. With silght adaptations, will use this as a hands-on starter for my "what is life?" unit.

Thank you

Submitted by T. M. (guest) on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 10:45am.

Thanks for this idea. I was trying to think of a simple lab to do on the first day of an introductory college biology class. I will modify it slightly for my students, but this seems like a great one for a "quick starter" where students will be able to get going without much advance knowledge, and we can use it as a starting point to discuss things like experimental design, control groups, etc.