My students need a benchtop incubator for their biological experiments! With this incubator, they will be able place their bacteria cultures to grow or compare growth under different temperatures.
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
I teach 10th grade biology in a public high-school in Los Angeles Unified School District. I have students from all ability levels that study biology as part of their mandatory graduation credit.
My students are from a diverse ethnic and academic background, but all are curious and ready to learn!
Many of my students receive free or reduced-fee lunch. Many are getting to school by bus from distant neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Most of my students belong to our Architecture, Digital Design and Film magnet school, where they get trained as future professionals in these technical arts. Their interest in science is largely dependent on the quality of instruction given to them, and it is my goal to capture their minds from the first minute they enter my class to the last day of school.
I believe that my students, no matter what grades they earned in previous years, or even in my course, all have valuable ideas on how the world works, and these ideas are the most important materials in my instruction.
My Project
I am asking for an inexpensive IVYX Scientific Lab Incubator for my classroom, primarily to run experiments involving bacteria that are growing under the influence of antibiotics. Students will collect swab tests from places around the school to identify potential sources for infections.
My students will grow EColi bacteria in the presence of antibiotics and will observe the evolution of antibiotic resistance in their plates.
Each experimental step will need the incubator to grow the bacteria overnight at 37oC. Without the incubator, cultures will take 4 days to grow with an increasing chances of contamination. After each incubation step, students will select the bacteria that grew despite the presence of antibiotic and start new cultures with the selected bacteria. The incubator will turn a process that can take two weeks into 3-4 days!
Having an incubator that both heats and cools can open a plethora of experiments with other organisms such as yeast, egg hatching, and more!
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