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: • The structure of a virus:
o Capsule o Capsid
o Cell wall o Envelope
o Cell membrane o Shapes (enveloped, helical,
o Genetic material polyhedral)
o Flagella o Genetic material
o Shapes (Bacillus, coccus, • How Viruses replicate:
spirilium) o Lytic Cycle
• How Bacteria reprodce: o Lysogenic Cycle
o Binary fission • Are Viruses alive?
• How Bacteria defend themselves or • Viral-like pathogens:
cause disease: o Viroids
o Endospore o Prions
o Toxin
o Conjugation
• How Bacteria obtain energy:
o Aerobic
o Anaerobic
o Photosynthetic
o Chemoautotroph
o Heterotroph
 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!
im
polyhedral
and im
tiger, with a
enveloped
many sided
riff, with a
coat
membrane

im helical
snowboy,
with a rod-
shaped
protein
coat!

The leader of the bacteria sharks was HIs daughter

named Big Daddy Coccus, named for his Bacilla Maria,
round shaped cell. 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.
 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!

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tony, a member of r a n
memb
the jetroviruses.

as she got to
know him, she
was able to
look inside of
him and see his
capsid, a warm,
spirited
protein shell
surrounding
I'm so You'll have to
his viral
hungry. tell me about
genome or, as
Let's eat! how you get
she called it,
his heart. your energy...

...because i get
mine from my
host cell.
 The third group gets
their energy
Well, bacteria can get energy in
photosynthetically.
three different ways. some are
they get theirs from
called chemautotrophs, and they
the sun.
take the hydrogen from ammonia,
using the energy from breaking Tell me
the bond to function. more!
That's so
hot!

Other bacteria are

heterotrophs, and Each of these
they are groups can obtain
decomposers. they energy in an aerobic
break down their environment, where
host cells and there is oxygen, or
other organic in anaerobic
molecules for environments,
energy. meaning oxygen
free.

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

oh! go
on!

The other method involves some

There are two
of the same steps and ends in
reproduction cycles. The
the same way, but the viral dna
first is the lytic cycle
becomes integrated with the
which involves the viral
host cell's dna so that it
cell replicating and in the
duplicates with the host cell
end the replicated cell
and produces more new viral
breaking open so that the
cells than the lytic cycle.plus,
new viral cell can infect
im cool because viruses can
other host cells.
have either dna or rna.
 Flashback.........

That's awesome! Can i

tell you about when my Well Bacilla
brothers, the bacteria maria, our cell
sharks first told me wall protects us
about my bacterial and gives us
body? shape. Our Cell
Membrane
regulates our
movement in and
out of other
cells.

Our beautiful capsules are How cute!

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! But oh no! look
at the time!

...end flashback

It's almost
midnight! I
have to go
home!
 i was out with
my new friend

And where have viral tony... im

so sorry i was

you been, young late big daddy,

nothing

lady??
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.