This set of 32 Cells and Cell Organelles Task Cards will provide Middle and High
School Students with Review and Reinforcement of the concepts found
while studying Cells, Cell Organelles & Functions.
The following concepts are covered in this set of Task Cards:
Organelles, Animal vs Plant Cells, cell (plasma) membrane, receptor
molecules, nucleus, cytoplasm, ribosomes, chloroplast, cell wall,
mitochondria, chromosomes, genes, vacuole, nuclear envelope (membrane),
gas exchange, organelle functions, ATP, selectively permeable membrane.
Along with the 32 Cells Task cards are 3 blank Task Cards,
student direction card, Student Answer Sheet and Teacher Answer
sheet/Guide.
Over the years, I have seen many different kinds animals in the classrooms I have visited. Primary classrooms usually have hamsters or guinea pigs.
In MS/HS Science classrooms I have seen snakes, hissing cockroaches, mice, fish, frogs, lizards, turtles, and even tarantulas. My Biology classroom pet was much more fluffy and interactive. I chose a rabbit and my son named him Dexter after the cartoon show "Dexter's Laboratory." Rabbits are very social and smart animals and make excellent pets.
I bought him a large cage for when he needed to be away from the students and my husband and I made him a set of carpeted wooden stairs that led up to his cage. Under his stairway was his litter box. What?? Who didn't know that rabbits could be litter trained (feel free to admit it in the comments below!) Yes, rabbits are very smart and crave their human owners interaction. Now, I will admit that a couple of my students were not thrilled at first that I had a roaming rabbit in my classroom .... yes, I also said roaming!! He was not locked up - it was very important to me that my students interacted with him, but they all (even those initially skiddish) warmed up to Dexter within a few days. Students volunteered to come in during their homeroom to feed him and play with him.... although none volunteered to clean out his litterbox every day! If a student was having a bad day, they would stop by and ask if they could pet and hang out with Dexter. I was truly amazed at the bond that I was seeing between my students and Dexter. It came to a point where I found that I could use Dexter as a calming agent in my classroom. I worked in an inner-city classroom while I had Dexter. Sometimes there were fights between students. When I noticed this occurring, I would immediately tell one of the students (usually the one most likely to outburst with a threat/or get physical) to go pet the bunny! It worked so well, and quickly that I had other students stepping in when a classmate was becoming agitated in the classroom telling their classmate to "go pet the bunny." Now, before all of you go out and buy bunnies for your classrooms - there are a few things to consider: 1. Get your administrations approval for any classroom pet. 2. Make sure that you have a personal budget set aside for pet needs: food, bedding, litter, toys, vet bills (bunnies need to be 'fixed'). 3. Weekend and long weekend plans. I had a great custodial staff that stepped in on weekends to feed Dexter and change his litter. I will admit that I gave these wonderful people special treats to help me take care of him so that he did not have to leave his 'classroom home' on the weekends. 4. Have a sub/snow day plan - someone still needs to feed the classroom animals if school is closed or you are not there. 5. Have vacation and summer plans for your pet. 6. If you have a 'roaming' pet be sure to baby-proof your classroom. Bunnies love to chew through cords and anything left on the ground (including student's shoes and backpacks).
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Are you looking for free, excellent, interactive science web resources
to plan lessons, share with your students or provide enrichment
materials?
We have compiled a four page list of Free K-12 Science
Teacher and Student Internet Resources. Subjects included are General
Science, Biology & Life Science, Earth & Space Science, Physics.
An arcade of games and interactive activities for grades K-12 focused on ocean and air themes. It highlights the science and the activities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other agencies and organizations promoting environmental stewardship.
Spigot Sciencepublications help promotescience literacyfor students and teachers. The Basic subscription (free) provides access to the blog, library, and two sample publications for grades 4-9.
Two golden orb spiders (Nephila clavipes) lived in space and on the International Space Station (ISS) in separate habitat chambers from May 16 to July 21, 2011. The free Spiders in Space guide contains instructions for setting up ground-based spider habitats and helping students to design their own spider investigations.
The Balanced Equation introduces students in grades 9-12 to global sustainability and chemistry’s role in developing long-lasting solutions. This site features 10 interdisciplinary lessons.
Ten Tips for working with English language learners are provided on this site as well as links and information to implement each idea in the classroom. This site also offers suggestions for adapting typical classroom activities for use with ELLs.
Educators can download inquiry-based lesson plans for teaching 6 middle school chemistry units (Matter – Solids, Liquids, and Gases changes of State; Density; the Periodic Table and Bonding; The Water Molecule and Dissolving; and chemical Change). Each unit contains several lessons and related multimedia.
Middle and High School students learn about chronic health problems that often occur among immigrants due to poor working conditions, harsh weather, pesticide use, and other challenges. The lesson is appropriate for science, language arts, or social studies classes.
Science Companion offers Virtual field trips for the K-6 science classrooms that pair photographs with text with lessons. Current/Past virtual field trips include Soils, Motion, Sky & Weather, Butterfly Life Cycle, Light, Rocks, Oil Spill Clean-up, Collecting & Examining Rain Forest Life, Human Body, Earth’s Changing Surface, Habitats, Electrical Circuits, and Solar Energy.
“Confessions of a Converted Lecturer” shares a presentation on how an educator changed his approach to teaching from lecture-based to interactive lessons which resulted in significant improvement in student performance.
K-12 educators can create and share custom-made online lesson plans and projects that make science, history, math, and civics come alive. The site contains more than 4,000 primary-source documents from the National Archives that can be incorporated into unique multimedia lessons.
The Universe in the Classroom celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Drake Equation, the formula that helps scientists estimate the likelihood of intelligent, communicative life in the universe.
Podcasts and classroom resources and activities in the Astronomy lecture Series by noted astronomers. Titles include: "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming," "A Scientist Looks at 'Doomsday 2012' and the Rise of Cosmophobia" and many other audio recording topics.
Interdisciplinary activities to introduce students in grades 7-12 to the controversial scientific and policy issues related to hazardous waste sites and cleanup of these sites.
This website was developed to encourage young women to pursue careers in math, science, and technology by sharing videos and stories of female astronauts, engineers, and scientists.
Free access to more than 600 items including: Are appropriate for middle and early high school students, test student understanding in the earth, life, physical sciences, and the nature of science and test for common misconceptions as well as correct ideas. This website also includes data on how well U.S. students are doing in science and where they are having difficulties and “My Item Bank,” a feature that allows you to select, save, and print items and answer keys.
a collection of online Earth system science activities. Each activity, or chapter, introduces one or more scientific data sets and analysis tools that enables users to explore some aspect of the Earth system.
Through this Interactive, students work as a medieval architect and build various arches and supports, learning about the forces involved along the way.
Experience the International Space Station (ISS) in real time allowing visitors to access ISS data, explore the mission control console center in 3-D, watch the construction of the ISS, and learn about the countries that created it.
Case studies and lesson plans exploring environmental projects around the world.Included are videos, PowerPoint presentations, narratives, student worksheets, and teacher keys.
Fire Safety Website including resources for K-6 classrooms with games, take-home activity, resources and students can send a question to a real firefighter.
Satellite Meteorology course was developed for middle and high school science classes. Satellite Meteorology provides scientists and educators with exciting tools for investigation, inquiry, analysis and stewardship.
The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - the Journal of Chemical Education has worked to assimilate the 17 stories into a standardized format along with PDF supplements for classroom distribution of the stories and problems separate from their respective solutions.
This guide introduces middle and high school students and teachers to the hobby and science of model rocketry.The guide presents information and activities about rocket history, with instructions for building various model rockets from simple to more challenging models.
Lesson plans, informational brochures, and fact sheets to aid in student understanding of coral reef ecology with more than 10,000 downloadable images.
An interactive website for elementary and middle level students and teachers to learn about four different types of hazardous waste and how to clean up each type.
Emphasize the importance of maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle with these education materials from the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service’s Eat Smart. Play Hard. Campaign. Resources include lesson plans, posters, activity sheets and a website for parents and caregivers.
An activity for students in grades 9-12 that introduces that basic principles of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and provides practice opportunities in locating specific features on a topographic map.
This polar bear and artic climate unit has interdisciplinary lessons for upper middle school students; links to educational materials and games, posters, quizzes, videos and information on how to connect your classroom with the tundra.
An organization dedicated to the conservation of nature through wildlife film and photography.Teachers can access more than 40,000 digital wildlife images and 6,000 wildlife films.
A two-hour, online interactive inquiry-based module that discusses how the body makes use of nutrients in food after it is digested into simpler substances.
More than 50 games and activities and interactive adventures that introduce U.S. National Parks and describe what makes these places special can be found on this website.
A lunar adventure game where users assume the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3-D lunar settlement to inspire, engage, and educate students about agency technologies, job opportunities, and the future of space exploration.
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The topics of Genetics, DNA, RNA, and Genetic Engineering are included in this bundle. Each topic contains a PowerPoint presentation, Notes Outline, Homework Assignments, and Exam. In total, there are 3 PowerPoint Presentation Lessons, 2 PP Notebooks for Smartboard, 2 Note Outlines, 1 Homework Assignments, 1 Laboratory Assignment, 1 Unit Vocabulary Transparency, 4 Test Prep Question Banks, and 3 Exams.
This bundled product includes the following topics in Genetics Unit Bundle -17 files:
This presentation Lesson Plan has 27 slides on the following topics: What is Genetics, Variation, Species and Chromosome Number, Chromosome Arrangement, Gregor Mendel, The Gene-Chromosome Theory, Alleles, Inheritance of Traits, Mendel's Experiments, Genetic Terms, Punnett Squares, Gene Linkage, Crossing-Over, Incomplete Dominance, Inheritance of Sex, Sex-Linked Inheritance.
This is a 9 page presentation Lesson Plan on the topic of the Genetics of Alcoholism. This presentation includes extensive notes to be read during the presentation.
This presentation Lesson Plan has 20 slides on the following topics: Chemical Basis for Genetics, Nucleotides, Nitrogenous Bases of DNA, DNA Structure, DNA Replication, RNA - Ribonucleic Acid, Mutations, Human Genetic Diseases, Genetic Engineering, How to Clone a Sheep.
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