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A 42-slide PowerPoint on Micro-organisms
A 15-slide PowerPoint on 'What is Yeast?'
12 pages of worksheets and activities
Ideas for activities to promote higher order thinking skills
Ideas for topic-related home learning activiies
6 pages of questions to stimuate discussion



