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Lab 4 - History of Penicillin
Purpose: To explore the history of penicillin from its discovery to its first use in humans.
Worksheet
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Part One - Background
Read "The Story of Penicillin" to become familiar with the people, discovery, and the first uses of penicillin.
Part Two - Timeline
Now you will make a timeline of the events you read about in "The Story of Penicillin." Complete the table below with the correct years. Then, write a short description of what happened in each event.
With you table filled out, follow the instructions below for completing an online timeline. If you need help with the TimeRime site, please use their help page. At the bottom of the page is an example of a timeline.
- Visit TimeRime and create a free account: http://www.timerime.com/en/login/ (link opens in new window)
- The site will have you verify your email. Check your email so ou can login.
- Login.
- Click on "Make a new timeline."
- Give a title to your timeline in this format: "P#, Initials, Timeline Title" Here's an example. Bobby A is a student in first period. His title would look like this: "P1 BA History of Penicillin Timeline"
- Write a short description of what your timeline is showing your viewers. You do not need to pick a category (although "Science and Technology" works very well for this timeline!).
- Make you timeline private by clicking "Private" at the bottom of the page.
- Click Save.
- You will automatically be taken to the "Item" page. Enter the following information for each event:
- Item Name (event from table)
- Begin date and time (Year from table) ** Only enter the year! Leave the other boxes blank!
- Short description (description from table) - Click on "Save and New"
- Repeat steps 8 and 9 until you have added all events to your timeline.
- Find an image for each event on your timeline. Upload the images to TimeRime (super easy to do!) and add them to the correct events.
- When your timeline is complete, click on "Extra Features" in the gray box.
- In the boxes under number 2 "Invite people to cooperate on your timeline," put Mr. Ower's e-mail address and click "Send."
- You're done!