Looking at Cells

Title: Looking at cells

Author: Cota

Subject: Science

Grade: 6th

Week: March 3-4

Unit/Lesson Plan #: Chapter 7, Unit 2 lesson 2

Unit theme: Intoduces students to both the strucutre of cells and the proper use of the microscope.

Textbook references:

Learning objectives:

Cells are fundamental units of living things.

Cellls have internal structures that can be examined with a microscope.

The structure of plant cells and animals cells have similarities and differences. 

Key Questions, Concepts, or Themes:

  cell membrane

cell wall

chloroplast

cytoplasm

mitochondria

nucleus

vacuole

Stage 1:

  Have students exmaine under the microscope slide of cork, discuss what they see. 

Stage 2:

  Go over the detials of plant and animal cells, use hand out to color cells.

Stage 3:

  For the lab we will look at edible cells: Reteaching strategies to look at slides of Elodea or other leaf sudrfaces. Ak them to draw what they see. Fianlly, have students record a thier thoughts about microscopes in sciencelog.

Homework: No homework in this class?

read text book pages 117-119 and answer questions page120-121 

Assessments: (attach/link copies)

__ Group assessment

__ Observation of process/student work

__ Self-assessment by student

__ Teacher generated assignment

__ Written project

__ Test/Quiz

__ Other: ____________________________________