Loyola Univ. Health Sys- Microbiology & Immunology: Public Education Initiative (Science Education K - 12)

Science Education K - 12
Welcome to our Public Education Initiative web site. We have launched this site so that we can share our science outreach programs with you. We hope that you will enjoy reviewing our material, and, if you are an educator, we hope you will download the presentations and use them in your classroom.

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Loyola University Medical Center, as part of our Public Education Initiative, is taking an active role in teaching science to K-12 students in the Chicago area. We know that young people are the next generation of scientists and that they need to see how science can affect their everyday lives. We hope that by engaging their attention at an early age with our outreach programs we can trigger in them a life-long interest in science. With this purpose in mind, our first year graduate students develop presentations on basic concepts in the areas of microbiology, immunology and genetics, and present them to K-12 students in the Chicago area.

On line versions of the presentations are listed below along with materials for reproducing the presentations in your own classroom. You are welcome to download the material for use in your not-for-profit presentations. We will continue to add future presentations to this site.
 
Go To Shots are a Good Thing!
A presentation on vaccination and the immune system for 6 to 10 year old children

Michelle A. Swanson, Cris Kamperschroer, Ute Osmers, Kathy Cho, Quentin. Low & Amornrat Kanjanhaluethai
Presented to Edison Elementary School, Second Grade Class of Elmhurst Illinois, March 2, 1997.

Go To How My Body Fights Germs!

Brian Bonish, Kirstin Gray, Diane DaSilva & John Dye
Presented to St. Francis Xavier Elementary School, Second Grade Class, March  1998.
    
Go To  DNA from Strawberries

Greg Robbins
Presented to Eisenhower Junior High, Seventh & Eighth Grade Classes, May 2006

 
Go To Extracting DNA from Bananas

Ana Shulla, Oana Ciupuliga & Mark Clementz
Presented to Annunciation B.V.M. School, Seventh Grade Class, November 6, 2007.
 
Go To Good Bacteria: Fact or Fiction

Linda Hu, Malvika Gupta, Zhenyu Zhong, Karen Krukowski & Pehga Mohseni
Presented to: American Indian School, Chicago, IL, February 25, 2008
   
Go To  Oral Health

Bruno Lima, Shauna Marvin, Mariko Takami, and Nicole Ziegler
Presented to Whittier Elementary School, Fourth Grade Class, January 8th, 2009 

    
Go To Using red cabbage juice as a pH indicator

Andy Morris, Bridget Banach, Justin Eddy, and Taylor Heald
Presented to Longfellow Elementary School, Fifth Grade Class, March 31, 2009

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