Magic School Bus Meets Cell Biology

Project Details & Guidelines

Driving Question:
How can we use prior knowledge to help us better understand new information?

Project Overview (objective):

Students will work in teams to create an extended analogy between something of their choosing and an animal or plant cell. Final presentations will be in the form of a power point presentation and teams will present together. The following organelles must be included in the presentation: nucleus, cell membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosome, golgi apparatus, acuole, lysosome, mitochondria, cell wall, cytoplasm, chloroplast.

Project Duration
The pro!ect will last " # weeks.

Major Group Assignments:

$% &ower &oint '()$* slides% +% Focus ,oncept -orkshop .% Final &resentations to a Panel

ndividual Assignments:
$% /ui00es and tests. +% There will be daily tasks in your science notebook to complete during the duration of this pro!ect.

Assessment:
Final assessment will be with a rubric and will be based primaril! on "ocus concepts#

$ocus Question %or&s'op:

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$inal Presentation Da! Details:

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4ach person in your group must speak for an e3ual amount of time. ;ndi idual content 3uestions will be asked of each person after the presentation 'based on focus concepts and related content%.

(ali"ornia )tate (ontent )tandards:

$. ,ell <iology ) =ll li ing organisms are composed of cells, from !ust one to many trillions, whose details usually are isible only through a microscope. =s a basis for understanding this concept: a. Students know cells function similarly in all li ing organisms. b. Students know the characteristics that distinguish plant cells from animal cells, including chloroplasts and cell walls. c. Students know the nucleus is the repository for genetic information in plant and animal cells. d. Students know that mitochondria liberate energy for the work that cells do and that chloroplasts capture sunlight energy for photosynthesis. e. Students know cells di ide to increase their numbers through a process of mitosis, which results in two daughter cells with identical sets of chromosomes. +. >enetics ) = typical cell of any organism contains genetic instructions that specify its traits. Those traits may be modified by en ironmental influences. =s a basis for under standing this concept: e. Students know ?1= 'deoxyribonucleic acid% is the genetic material of li ing organisms and is located in the chromosomes of each cell.

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Driving Question:
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