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Animated Life: Seeing the Invisible

Topic

  • Microbiology
  • Bacteria
  • Archaea & Eukaryotes

Resource Type

  • Videos
  • Animated Shorts

Level

High School — GeneralHigh School — AP/IBCollege

Duration

00:06:31
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Description

This animated short video celebrates 17th-century citizen-scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, whose discoveries of microbes changed our view of the biological world.

In 1674, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked at a drop of lake water through his homemade microscope and discovered an invisible world that no one knew existed. He was the first to discover bacteria, protists, sperm cells, blood cells, rotifers, and much more.

This short video tells Leeuwenhoek’s story using animated paper puppets. The narrators include microbiologist Bonnie Bassler, who researches how bacteria communicate through quorum sensing.

An audio descriptive version of the film is available via our media player.

Key Terms

bacteria, Bassler, microbe, microorganism, microscope, Robert Hooke, quorum sensing

Terms of Use

Please see the Terms of Use for information on how this resource can be used.

Accessibility Level (WCAG compliance)

PDF files meet criteria. Video files meet criteria. Spanish files meet criteria.

Version History

Date Published 10.20.14
Date Updated 06.15.20

NGSS (2013)

HS-LS1.A

AP Biology (2019)

ENE-1

IB Biology (2016)

1.1

Vision and Change (2009)

CC2

Materials

HD (M4V) 261 MB
HD (WMV) 202 MB
SD (M4V) 63 MB
SD (WMV) 52 MB
Transcript (PDF) 235 KB
Spanish dub (MP4) 105 MB
Transcript - Español (PDF) 218 KB

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