Cells: Basic Unit of Life
| State | WV |    |
| Status | Ready for Users | |
| Stage | Public | |
| Subject | English/Language Arts Mathematics Science | |
| Author | Allen Petrunger
Keith Dunford Barbara Duke | |
| Description | In this lesson, students will learn the basic components
of a single cell. Students will also learn key vacabulary, place values to the millionths and how to divide decimals by decimals. | |
| The 21st Century Tools | Microscope
PowerPoint Computer with Internet access Presentation device | |
| Grade Level | 6 | |
| National Standards | UCP (Unifying Concepts and Process)
1. Systems, order, and organization Life Science 1. Structure and function in living systems 2. Reproduction and heredity Science in Personal and Social Perspectives 1. Personal health History and Nature of Science 1. Science as a human endeavor 2. Nature of science 3. History of science Math (Grades 5 - 8) NM.5-8.1 Mathematics as Problem Solving NM.5-8.3 Mathematics as Reasoning NM.5-8.5 Number and Number Relationships NM.5-8.13 Measurement | |
| Keywords | host cell, virus, vaccine, tissue, chloroplat, cell wall,
cell theory, cytoplasm, ribosome, mitochondria, organelle, bacteriophage, compound light microscope, chromatin, golgi body, organ, lysosome | |
| Lesson Plan URLs (new Window) | Overview: Cells: Basic Unit For Life
Lesson 1: Cells The Units of Life Lesson 2: Viruses Lesson 3: Dictionary skills Lesson 4: Know your decimal places! Lesson 5: How big is a cell? | |
| English IGO or CSO | 6.86, 6.87
6.136 3,4,5,7,9,11 6.140 3,5,7,8,11,19 | |
| Math IGO or CSO | 6.1, 6.2, 6.11, 6.43, 6.49, 6.51 | |
| Science IGO or CSO | 6.21, 6.22, 6.23 | |