Teaching ideas – antibiotic resistance
Increasing strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria are potentially a very serious threat to the human population worldwide.
This article provides an excellent starting point to highlight the problems associated with resistant bacteria.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38609553
Going further
The following Teachit Science resources are all suitable to use for the new GCSE Biology curriculum.
- Antibiotics introduction
- Antibiotics discovery timeline
- Antibiotics and painkillers
- Antibiotic resistance – news story
Listen to the podcast '50 things that made the modern economy - antibiotics' (9 mins) for a slightly different slant on the development of antibiotics.