We had to explain Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration in terms that children can understand. To do this I will put together a creative project which has a series of illustrations and captions in the form of an animation, which will help tell a story about the processes.
We indirectly testing whether yeast can use energy, which is one of the characteristics of living organisms. test whether yeast can metabolize sugar and produce a gas which we will presume is carbon dioxide. Specifically, we tested whether yeast produces a gas when it has sugar available as a food vs. when no sugar is available.