MS-LS1-1.

MS-LS1-1. Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.

[Clarification Statement: 

Emphasis is on developing evidence that living things are made of cells, distinguishing between living and non-living cells, and understanding that living things may be made of one cell or many and varied cells.]

What Students Need to Know:

 Characteristics of living things

 What a cell is

 Living things may be made of one cell or of many and varied cells

What Students Need to be able to Do:

 Conduct an investigation to provide evidence

How Students will Learn :

• • Practice Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

  • Conduct an investigation to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence that meet the goals of an investigation.

  • Asking Questions and Defining Problems

Instructional Resources

• Intro to cells video-awesome to begin unit with

• Major concepts and learning activities: Cell structure and function overview 

  • LS1-1, LS1-2 lesson (osmosis)

  • http://www.mysciencebox.org/book/export/html/432

Is it alive?

• • http://www.d123.org/olhms/dedie/documents/Cells1.1A.pdf 

• Is it alive? NASA 

• Plant vs Ice Cube prompt Is it alive? 

  • Living or nonliving…that is the question 

  • It’s alive I think 

  • Is it alive? Family astro

  • Characteristics of living things 

• build a cell interactive game

  • http://betterlesson.com/common_core/browse/2214/ngss-ms-ls-life-sciences 

  • http://betterlesson.com/common_core/browse/2218/ngss-ms-ls1-3-use-argumentsupported-by-evidence-for-how-the-body-is-a-system-of-interacting-subsystemscomposed-of-groups-of-ce

  • http://www.ck12.org/ngss/middle-school-life-sciences/from-molecules-to-organisms:- structures-and-processes

• LS1-1

• LS1-1 

• various lessons for LS1

  • lessons for LS1-1 through LS1-8  

  • LS1-1, LS1-2, LS1-3, LS1-4 

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