During this tutorial, students will read and click their way through animations, review questions, and various diagrams to illustrate/animate the basic traits of viruses and the stages of the lytic cycle in a unique and easy to follow manner. This is not a simple PowerPoint presentation where students are shown bullet point main ideas. This PowerPoint is full of creative animations and probing questions that require a student generated answer in order to proceed.

Students will begin with an introduction to viruses where they will learn basic characteristics. They will then progress their way through the five stages of the lytic cycle where they will be asked a series of questions along the way to check for understanding. At the end, there is a 10 question review quiz for the students to complete.

Once you purchase, feel free to make multiple copies to use with your students. In years past, I burned a class set of CDs with all my interactive tutorials to handout to my students whenever we would go to the computer lab. However, recently I obtained a class set of USB flash drives that I hand out to my students whenever we go to the computer lab.

There are 6 files in this download:

1) Virus PowerPoint tutorial (newer version of PowerPoint)

2) Virus PowerPoint tutorial (1997-2003 PowerPoint)

3) Student worksheet (pdf)

4) Student worksheet (Word)

5) Answer key (Word)

6) Answer key (pdf)

I have many other Interactive Tutorials. Here are links to my others:

• Blood typing
• Endocrine system
• Kingdom Protista
• Mendelian Genetics
• Mitosis
• Meiosis
• Natural Selection
• Organelles of the Cell
• Pathway of Protein Creation
• Phosphorus Cycle
• Sex Linked Inheritance
• Scientific Method
• Transcription
• Translation
• Viruses and the Lytic Cycle

Key words:

Biology

Life Science

Tutorial

Interactive

PowerPoint

Power Point

Multimedia

Technology based instruction

Virus

Lytic

DNA

RNA

mRNA

messenger RNA

Ribosome

tRNA

transfer RNA

Amino acids

transcription

translation