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Gram Staining
Gram Staining
Activities
Students will be allowed to go around the school collecting bacteria from different areas in the school. They
will swab the desired area with a Q-Tip for 30 seconds, then swab their bacteria on their petri dish and
incubate the bacteria for 3 days.
Students will look at their petri dish and describe/draw the way it looks in their lab notebook. Students will
now go through a step-by-step process on how to gram stain their bacteria. After they gram-stain their
bacteria they will place their slide under a microscope and determine what bacteria is growing around the
school.
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