Bug Busters activities
Comic strip (10-15 mins)
Suitable for KS2 and community groupsThis activity will help participants understand correct uses of antibiotics, including when they should not be taken and why.A summary of instructions for both school and community groups can be found here. You will also find a link in the downloads section below.
Bacterial resistance (10-15 mins)
Suitable for KS3, KS4, KS5 and community groupsThis activity uses a visual demonstration to explain what antibiotic resistance is using balloons, and how this can spread through reproduction to other bacteria.A summary of instructions for both school and community groups can be found here. You will also find a link in the downloads section below.
Antibiotic Awareness and Colour Change
Suitable for KS2 and community groupsThis activity involves an experiment which uses changes in pH levels and colour change to explain the action of antibiotics affecting bacterial infections only, and having no effect on viral infections.A summary of instructions for both school and community groups can be found here. You will also find a link in the downloads section below.
Experiment using agar plates
Suitable for KS3This activity involves an experiment using agar culture plates with indicators to grow microbial cultures and to test whether the microbes are killed by a range of antibiotics, and to decide which microbe is causing the illness and whether antibiotics are needed.A summary of instructions for both school and community groups can be found here. You will also find a link in the downloads section below.
This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube.
Fun Kids
Suitable for KS2 and community groupsThis is an additional video, hosted on YouTube.
This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube.
Antibiotic resistance debate kit
Suitable for KS3, KS4, KS5 and community groupse-Bug have developed a debate kit on antibiotic resistance to enable students and community members to debate on this hot topic: “Should the NHS tell GPs to give back-up prescriptions instead of immediate antibiotics wherever possible?”
If you are supporting home-learning or working with small groups of children, we have additional activities on antibiotic awareness in our newly launched Antibiotic Guardian Youth Badge Leader and Volunteer Activity Pack. Click here to access this resource.
Have you carried out any activities which are similar to these?Let us know your experiences in the comments below.
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