Jeopardy-Style Review Game on Bacteria and Prokaryotes.
My students love to review using this Jeopardy Powerpoint review game on bacteria and prokaryotic cells. I have found that my students pay far greater attention to the review when it is in a competitive game format.
This review game has 6 categories with 5 questions in each category. Concepts/terms covered are:
1. Introduction to Bacteria
2. Classification of prokaryotes
3. Characteristics of Bacteria
4. Cell structures of a bacterial cell
5. How do bacteria obtain energy? heterotrophs, autotrophs, parasites, saprophytes, photosynthesis and chemosynthesis.
6. Growth and reproduction of bacteria: requirements for growth, binary fission, conjugation, endospore formation
7. The importance of bacteria: Role of decomposers, nitrogen fixation, human uses of bacteria.
8. Bacterial diseases in humans: Ways bacteria cause disease, pathogens, vaccines, antibiotics.
9. Symbiotic relationships: mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism is discussed.
This game was written with a typical biology I class in mind, but is also very appropriate for a middle school science class. It can easily be edited to make the questions more simple, or more advanced. I use this in combination with my Viruses and Bacteria Powerpoint Presentation.