Topic Frameworks (TFs)

 The International Microbiology Literacy Initiative produces Topic Frameworks (TFs), written by hundreds of microbiologists worldwide in non-specialist language that teachers can interpret for classes and groups of different ages and teaching needs, are generic knowledge frameworks that constitute the individual lessons of the microbiology curriculum.

They are the centrepiece of the resources created by the IMiLI to promote microbiology literacy in society. TFs are essentially stand-alone, so can be freely selected and mixed and matched according to the teaching aims, interests and priorities of individual teachers. Indeed, new TFs can readily be created by teachers by mixing and matching parts of different TFs.

List of Topic Frameworks

• Our Plants (and Food Crop Farming)
• Our Animals
• Our Food (and Beverages)
• Ourselves (Our Personal Microbiology)
• Our Wellbeing
• Our Infections
• Our Planet
• Global Warming
• Our Water
• Global Microbiology
• Adventures and Discovery
• New Frontiers
• Microbial Gifts: Biotechnology
• Their and Our Future
• Their and Our Past (the First Microbes and Our Origins)
• Our Civilisation and Culture
• Our Microbial Friends
• Microbial Wellbeing
• How We Study Microbes
• Why We Need to Be Microbiology Literate