Monthly Archives: February 2025

We’re learning a little about microbiology but having fun growing some yeasty-beasties and other things that look nasty. Bacteria, molds, and fungus are among us.

The bill for my blog comes this time every year and is always a surprise and a little painful coming so close after the holidays. I’ve paid for this site for over 15 years and some years don’t do anything with it. I always say I will post more but rarely do.

Anyway, the school year is cruising along and here’s what we will do to start the 3rd quarter in Medical Assistant. One of my favorite topics is Infection Control. We will learn the Chain of Infection which has six links. Remove one of the links and the chain is broken. I will assign a disease research project which includes doing a slide presentation and show a movie to finish the unit.

In Biotechnology we will learn about bacteria and then make agar plates. The students will swab different surfaces with a sterile cotton tip applicator and streak the plate. We’ll let the plates incubate for a couple of days and see what grows. It’s always a lot of fun and gross at the same time. Here’s a couple of plates from last year.