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The Microbe Zoo is a product of the Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology (DLC-ME), a collaboration between Comm Tech Lab and Michigan State University to make tools for learning about microscopic organisms more readily available to students and teachers. This Web site is a fun way to learn about these communities of microbes, where they live, and how they help support life on earth. Students can learn about the microbes that inhabit diverse places like farm fields, toxic waste dumps, cow rumen, our homes, and even our food by clicking on words or pictures. This site is an entertaining way to learn about a subject that is often overlooked.
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| Title | Internet Scout Project |
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| Link | http://scout.wisc.edu/ |
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| Description | The Internet Scout Report provides evaluation and annotation of high-quality online resources, particularly those that will be of value to the education community. Each resource is selected, researched, and annotated by a team of professional librarians and subject-matter experts, who evaluate sites on the basis of their content, authority, upkeep, presentation, availability, and cost. Published since 1994, the Report is one of the internet's oldest and most respected publications. The Internet Scout Project is part of the College of Letters and Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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Information | DirtLand | Animal Pavilion | Snack Bar Space Adventure | WaterWorld Welcome to the Microbe Zoo! To discover the many worlds of hidden microbes, touch an environment in the map above! Go to the zoo Information Booth to find out how to use this zoo. Outline of the Microbe Zoo shows textual outline of sections and specimens The Microbe Zoo is available on CD-ROM. The major attractions of this Microbe Zoo include: DirtLand Microbes inhabit almost every niche you can think of, from 20 miles beneath the Earth's surface to 20 miles overhead. They live at temperatures less than -20 degrees Celsius to temperatures hotter than the boiling point. Microbes thrive on a huge range of foods including oil and toxic wastes. Animal Pavilion Most animals interact with microbes in important ways, and all animals, as well as all plants and fungi, depend on microbes for their survival. Snack Bar Without microbes, eating would be a boring pastime. Many foods, including cheese, chocolate, tea, bread, root beer, and many others are processed by microbes. Explore this environment to find out what microbes you have been eating! Space Adventure The Space Adventure pavilion has three main themes: speculation about extraterrestrial life and the forms that it might take, attempts to use microbes in creating closed-cycle ecosystems to support future space stations and lunar bases, and microbes in the atmosphere. Microbes relevant to these three themes will be featured in the Space Adventure pavilion. Water World Most of Earth's biomass lives in the oceans, and most of this biomass is microbes. Microbes are found in abundance in many aquatic environments, such as streams, puddles, ponds, lakes, rivers, swamps, oceans and seas. The Microbe Zoo is part of the DLC-ME project which was developed by the Comm Tech Lab and the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University.
