Details
Pages
40 Pages
Subject
Science, Biology
Product
Digital
Grade
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Resource Type
Interactives, Learning Centers, Science Centers
Description
This remote-learning ready, google slides lesson teaches students all about cell organelles in interesting, challenging ways.
Cell organelle function was a topic that I struggled to make interesting for years. So many cell organelle lessons involve a lecture style lesson or rote memorization. This lesson solves that. It is the first time that I have seen cell organelles taught in a student centered way that involves genuine thoughtfulness and problem solving. I wrote each of these station components separately as different ideas came to me, and ended up with a lesson that I am truly proud to be able to share with you.
Station One: Students use reading comprehension to compare viruses, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes
Station Two: Students are given a reference sheet with all the organelles and functions. They choose whether they would rather work with genetic diseases or poisons for this station. For each, they look at symptoms of the disease or symptoms of the poisoning, and have to state which cell organelle is malfunctioning, and how they know that.
Station Three: Students work with a fairly common cell organelle analogy- which organelles function in a similar way to which organs? This activity is interactive, as they are playing a "memory" type card game to solve the analogy.
Station Four: Students are presented with unusual organisms, such as parasitic plants. They have to make a claim about how the strange organisms' cells would look different than the cells of closely related organisms.
Station Five: Students are presented with the original scientific experiments that were used to discover some organelles’ functions. They will have to match these experiments with the organelles they described, and explain the reasoning behind the experiments.
Cell organelle function was a topic that I struggled to make interesting for years. So many cell organelle lessons involve a lecture style lesson or rote memorization. This lesson solves that. It is the first time that I have seen cell organelles taught in a student centered way that involves genuine thoughtfulness and problem solving. I wrote each of these station components separately as different ideas came to me, and ended up with a lesson that I am truly proud to be able to share with you.
Station One: Students use reading comprehension to compare viruses, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes
Station Two: Students are given a reference sheet with all the organelles and functions. They choose whether they would rather work with genetic diseases or poisons for this station. For each, they look at symptoms of the disease or symptoms of the poisoning, and have to state which cell organelle is malfunctioning, and how they know that.
Station Three: Students work with a fairly common cell organelle analogy- which organelles function in a similar way to which organs? This activity is interactive, as they are playing a "memory" type card game to solve the analogy.
Station Four: Students are presented with unusual organisms, such as parasitic plants. They have to make a claim about how the strange organisms' cells would look different than the cells of closely related organisms.
Station Five: Students are presented with the original scientific experiments that were used to discover some organelles’ functions. They will have to match these experiments with the organelles they described, and explain the reasoning behind the experiments.
This remote-learning ready, google slides lesson teaches students all about cell organelles in interesting, challenging ways. Cell organelle function was a topic that I struggled to make interesting for years. So many cell organelle lessons involve a lecture style lesson... more
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