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Biome Beads

Where crafting meets microbes

Microbiome

Image: NASA

Microbes

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Beads

Fun Items

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Image: Luke Thompson (Chisholm Lab, MIT)

Biome Beads Activity Booklet

The concepts behind microbiomes can be abstract and difficult to teach, but sense-making approaches can be applied to this process for
hands-on learning that relates to any grade level science curriculum.  

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Biome Beads Kit

The Biome Beads Kit contains all the materials needed to build microbe inspired bracelets and key chains and to put our tiny microbe friends into their real world contexts helping plants, animals, and humans.  Shown below is a first generation a human microbiome kit.

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Request a Kit:
- Plant Microbiome
- Human Microbiome
- Ocean Microbiome

Free while materials last!

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Melisa Osborne

melosbor-at-bu.edu

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