Life Science

2.3 Cells are the smallest unit of life that can function independently and perform all the necessary functions of life.

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a. Gather, analyze and
compare data and
models on the different
types of cells, their
structures,
components, and
functions
b. Construct,
communicate, justify
an evidence-based
scientific explanation
regarding cell
structures,
components, and their
specific function
c. Organize the basic
structures and
functions of plant cells,
animal cells, and
single-celled
organisms
a. Gather, analyze, and a. Identify, interpret, and
interpret data and
models on the different
types of cells, their
structures,
components, and
functions
b. Develop, b. Interpret,
communicate, and
justify an evidence-
based scientific
explanation regarding
cell structures,
components, and their
specific function
c. Compare and contrast c.
the basic structures
and functions of plant
cells, animal cells, and
single-celled
organisms
explain data and
models on the different
types of cells, their
structures,
components, and
functions
communicate, and
construct an evidence-
based scientific
explanation regarding
cell structures,
components, and their
specific function
Interpret the basic
structures and
functions of plant cells,
animal cells, and
single-celled
organisms
a. Use, explain, and
examine an evidence-
based scientific
explanation regarding
cell structures,
components, and their
specific function
b. Discuss, communicate,
and examine an
evidence-based
scientific explanation
regarding cell
structures,
components, and their
specific function
c. Discuss the basic
structures and
functions of plant cells,
animal cells, and
single-celled
organisms
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d. Critique tools to
gather, view, relate,
and report results for
the scientific
investigations of cells
d. Employ tools to gather, d. Identify tools to gather, d. Define tools to gather,
view, analyze, and view, interpret and view, explain and state
report results for the state results for the the results for the
scientific investigations scientific investigations scientific investigations
of cells of cells of cells
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Verbs:
Use: make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural
purpose
Explain: make plain and comprehensible
Examine: consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover
essential features or meaning
Discuss: to determine the essential qualities or meaning of
Communicate: convey transfer to another
Define: to determine the essential qualities or meaning of
View: the act of looking or seeing or observing
Identify: give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or
some other identifying characteristic property
Interpret: make sense of; assign a meaning to
Construct: make with suitable instruments and under specified conditions
Gather: assemble or get together
State: express in words
Analyze: to examine critically, carefully and in detail so as to identify causes,
key factors and possible results
Justify: show to be right by providing justification or proof; show reasoning for a
certain argument or statement
Compare: to consider or describe as similar
Contrast: to compare in order to show unlikeliness or differences
Employ: use; make work or employ for a particular purpose
Report: to relate, as what has been learned by observation or investigation or
investigation; an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or
the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry
Organize: cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some
principle or idea
Critique: criticism: a serious examination and judgment of something
Relate: associate: make a logical or causal connection