Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness: Microbe Madness Agar activities

Agar Art: Painting in a Petri Dish
Draw and colour with bacteria on agar in a Petri dish

Bacterial Invasion: Defend Your Disk
Choose a few antibiotics and see how well they defend a disk against a bacterial invasion

Sinking Superbugs: Handwash Challenge
A fingerprinting activity on agar plates. It demonstrates the importance of hand washing by sampling bacteria on your hands before and after using hand sanitizer.

⚠️ Important: Some bacteria may have nutritional requirments not included in the recipe we used for these agar plates while others may be very slow to grow. Therefore, the bacteria shown on the plates below may only be a small fraction of what is actually present on our fingertips.

Environmental Investigation: Swab & See
Swab items of your choice, whether personal belongings or objects around the science center, on agar in Petri dishes to see how much bacteria are on them.

⚠️ Important: Some bacteria may have nutritional requirments not included in the recipe we used for these agar plates while others may be very slow to grow. Therefore, the bacteria shown on the plates below may only be a small fraction of what is actually present at the area you sampled at the Science Centre.