Microbes (please note some links need updating - I will return!)
An easy to understand website with lots of information :-)
Useful information from a reliable source! This site needs Flash to work properly, so make sure you get to a computer and leave the iPad for a while :-)
An excellent website from the American Society for microbiology. Lots of good information to answer many of our questions!
Useful, easy to read information....
A good collection of short videos microbes.
Another university based website designed to help kids understand microbe. This site needs flash so it can't be viewed properly on an iPad, but worth looking at on the computer!
The Seven Wonders of the Microbe World - a series of short videos explaining the role of microbes in making beer, the black death and much more!!
Lots of information, but more scientifically written with a high school or university audience in mind. Written by a microbiologist.
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