SUNSHINE STATE STANDARDS:
Learning Cycle
Defining Success
NATIONAL STANDARDS:
OBJECTIVE: What will your students will be able to do by the end of class?
SWBAT identify major cell organelles and describe their functions. SWBAT understand that different cells
form different organs and can do different jobs.
ASSESSMENT: How will you know concretely that
all of your students have mastered the objective?
1) Cell Models
2) Worksheet
3) Follow-up assessment
KEY POINTS. What three to five main ideas or
steps will you emphasize in your lesson?
1) Cell organelles
2) Organs
3) Plant vs. animal cells
INVITATION: How will you focus, prepare and engage students for the
lesson’s objective? What questions will students answer? What observations
will be made?
Class will participate in reading a comic strip that introduces the idea of
cells, their importance, and the organelles that are contained within them.
EXPLORATION: How will students engage in open-ended exploration of
real phenomena, discussion about their discoveries, ideas, and questions that
arise?
Students will be led in a discussion about cell organelles and their functions.
Questions will prompt discussion and exploration of the concepts listed
above.
CONCEPT INTRODUCTION: How will you convey the knowledge and/or
skills of the lesson? What will your students do to process this information?
Students will read their lab instructions aloud, then work in groups to
construct cell models for animal and plant cells. All organelles will be
labeled and their functions will be described on a worksheet.
APPLICATION: In what ways will your different learners attempt the
objective on their own? How will students apply the new knowledge and
skills to solving a problem or meeting a challenge?
Student groups will be assigned a specific animal and plant cell type, which
they will need to research using the internet. Students will identify the organ
that their cell type is a part of, and what makes that cell type special/different
from other cells.
REFLECTION: How will you have students summarize what they’ve learned
and how they arrived at their current understanding? How will you reinforce
the objective’s importance and its link to past and future learning as well as
new conceptual frameworks?
Students will present their assigned cell types and researched information to
the class at the end of the activity.
MATERIALS:
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Paper Plates
Tacky Glue
Red Pipe cleaners
Green Pipe
cleaners
White pipe
cleaners
Kidney Beans
Small beads
Pom Pom balls
Green Felt
Cotton Balls
Posterboard strips
Ziploc bags
EXTENSION: How will you incorporate ideas for further exploration?
DIFFERENTIATION: How will you differentiate your instruction to reach the diversity of learners in your
classroom (ELL STRATEGIES/IEP IMPLEMENTATION)?
Cell Model Activity
Name:
PURPOSE: To identify and know the function of the major organelles in plant and animal cells.
PROCEDURE:
1) Each group will make two cell models, one animal cell and one plant cell.
2) Use the paper plate as the base of your model, then glue different materials to the plate to
represent the organelles.
3) Use the information sheet on your table to learn where the different organelles are located
and what they do.
4) LABEL each organelle in your cell. You can cut small pieces of paper for labels if you want.
5) Write the function of each organelle next to each organelle name below.
6) Your group will be assigned a specific type of plant and animal cell. Use the computers to look
up your assigned cell type online, then answer the questions below.
Plant or
Material
Animal
Organelle
Function (What does this organelle do?)
Cell?
Pom pom
Both
Nucleus
ball
White Pipe
Cleaner
Both
Cell
Membrane
Paper
Strip
PLANT
ONLY
Cell wall
Green
Pipe
Cleaner
Both
Endoplasmic
Reticulum
(smooth and
rough)
Gold
Beads
Both
Ribosomes
Red Pipe
Cleaner
Both
Golgi
Apparatus
Kidney
Beans
Both
Mitochondria
Green Felt
Cotton
Ball
PLANT
ONLY
Both
(BIG in
plants)
Chloroplast
Vacuole
Assigned ANIMAL cell type:
1) Is your assigned animal cell type a part of a particular organ? If so, which organ?
2) What are one or two things that make this cell type different or special?
Assigned PLANT cell type:
3) What makes this cell type different or special?