Find out where they live, how they have survived millions of years longer than us, friend or foe and how we use them.  

Skip mystery cases1 and 6 - senior school and go to microbe mysteries.   

You can have good fun by looking at washing your hands – look at the choices on the left menu of  washup.

 If you want to know a little more science about micro-organisms just look at the microscope pictures, skim through, read the bits that interest you and ignore any hard bits bacteria, fungi and viruses. 

There are also some news articles, some new, some old - all in the left  menu of microbe news – sports infections to slime to fungus famine to farts to suicidal rats – take your pick.