Students explore the eukaryotic cell as a tiny, bustling factory — each organelle a specialized machine with a job — learning how structure and function connect at the most basic unit of life.
Students will be able to…
Every living thing is built from cells, and each cell is packed with tiny machines. What are the organelles, and how does each one keep the cell alive?
Project this and tap each organelle. Have students record its structure and the job it does to keep the cell working.
Tap a part of the cell
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A single cell is like a whole factory — what are its machines?
Students investigate.
Teacher explains.
Apply.
Three quick checks.
Aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (High School Life Science) and Common Core literacy in science.
Develop a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems in cells.
Explain how the structure of DNA determines the structure of proteins.
Explain the role of cellular division in organisms.
Translate information in a text into a visual model.
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Have students compare plant and animal cells and identify the organelles unique to plants (cell wall, chloroplasts, large vacuole). A printable cell-comparison sheet is in the Science library.
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