Unit 4: Cells and Reproduction

Learning Goals and Success Criteria - this is the key document for know what to study and what
we will cover in the course. I will teach this more or less in order.

Student Planner - maps the content of the course against the lessons available.

Teacher Planner - Not so useful for students, but other teachers may find this useful. Most of the
resources listed will be placed on this site.

1 - Cells and Organelles

Learning Goal 1: I can describe cells as the basic units of all living things and explain the
function and characteristics of their specialised structures.

Prokaryotic cells versus Eukaryotic Cells - Sounds complicated but a good start point.

BBC bites video on cells - a nice and easy introduction to organelles. May show this in class as an
introduction to cells and will rely on the video later for notes

*Notes on Unicellular vs Multicellular More detail than we need but good general knowledge. Will
use with academic class. Heavily edited version of a tutorvista site.

PowerPoint on Animal v Plant Cells and Organelles - will not use this in class but has all the info
you need to cover the Success criteria. Don't print out, copy info out if you miss class.

*Short video on organelle functions and animal and plant cell differences Good visuals on this
video and right amount of detail but combines the two topics (organelle function and animal v plant
cells)

*Worksheet on organelles for the video above - fill in the organelle activity sheet based on the
video)

Transcript of the video above - for filling in the organelle activity sheet based on the video (its a
cheat sheet, so you don't have to continually rewind and replay parts of the video)

Table with organelle definitions Paste into your book. Very brief, need to know for the exam.

Organelle cards for mix and match

Cell diagrams of organelles -a plant and animal cell with organelles and labels. Complete the info
for each label

interactive on cells and organelles - nice and simple. Has info and quiz.

Cell analogy worksheet - aspiring students should spend some time on the open-ended Higher
Order Thinking question at the end

EXTENSION activity - Data Analysis - some data from actual research on microbial growth. Not
exactly sure how I will use this in class. Probably look at each graph seperately and then all together.
Definitly great practice for data analysis.

Experiment on osmosis Potato and Salt conc - nice and simple. Use more salt concentrations (in
g/100mL - 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, and 12.5 - simpler for students.

2 - Using a Microscope
Learning Goal 2: I can safely and accurately use a light microscope to draw scaled diagrams of
cells.

Not used 2021 SciShow video on the Microscope - covers history of the microscope including
hooke and Leeuwenhoek, but not Pasteur.

Not used 2021 Microscope worksheets pretty much covers it! Hardcopy here

Steps to make a wet mount slide - onion cell description, adapted from a science quest document

How to draw what you see under a Microscope - 4 mins, simple and easy to follow, about right for
year 8.

Section 3 - Mitosis and growth

Learning Goal 3: I can describe the process of mitosis and explain the function and
characteristics of their specialised structures.
I will do some notes on the board for mitosis. Most sources are way too complicated), but the one
below was a good start. I will try to clearly differentiate in the way unicellular and multicellular
organisms have different roles for mitosis.

3 main purposes of Mitosis fairly straight forward, although not totally clear that two of the three
refer to multicellular and one to unicellular. Also has a little on mutations.

Not used 2021 video called MITOSIS MADE EASY ANIMATION - and it is! - 5 basic stages plus
cytokinesis and interphase. Good source of notes. The key points for the worksheet below are
actually from the 20 sec mark to the 80 sec mark.

Not used 2021 Worksheet on stages of mitosis - to go with video above. Go for interpreting the key
information in the vid (20 sec point to 80 sec point)

Not used 2021 Mitosis Flip book - great idea, found it in two places, not sure who owns it. "mr
Stewart's" had some detailed instructions so I linked there. I will just cut out and make a simple
uncoloured flip book... still cool.. A hard copy of the 36 frames is here

Not used 2021 Mitosis in 5 stages Labeled diagram of the five stages of Mitosic