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- 11th - 12th
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Students are challenged to eat some candy as a cell would need to do it. By solving this problem students simulate the cell process called endocytosis. They think about some of the problems that arise when a cell ingests food. Full Review »
1996 Access Excellence Collection An archive of the favorite classroom activities submitted by high school biology and life sciences teachers participating in the Access Excellence program. Agarose Gel DNA Quantitation Students will be looking at agaro Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students review parts of the cell and movements of particles into or out of the cell by participating in this game. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students create an animation of a cell process and insert it into a presentation. They choose a cellular process such as mitosis, osmosis or DNA replication, and create a simple 2D animation. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students read an article about what happens to particles when they are inhaled by humans. They plot different sizes of particles and how those sizes affect if it enters the body or not. They discuss their results. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students, working in a science lab, analyze how small and large molecules move from one side to the membrane to the other via channels and pores, or exocytosis and endocytosis. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students, from a variety of resources, examine how many factors affect a process. In connection with those factors, they create a model membrane that's a facsimile to a real membrane; then, work in the science lab on an egg experiment. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students explain that some structures in the modern eukaryotic cell, such as mitochondria, developed from early prokaryotes and from chloroplasts in plants. They create a to-scale time line depicting the formation of the solar system and Earth, and the first known instance of various orgamisms. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students identify, interpret, and relate concentration gradients, diffusion, and equilibrium; predict the direction of water movement into and out of cells; compare active transport with passive transport; describe the importance of the sodium-potassium pump; distinguish between endocytosis and exocytosis. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students participate in a lesson that concerned with the concept of active transport. They review the structure and function of the cell membrane through the use of research, teacher guidance, and video resources. Then students complete the worksheets for cell structure and function. Full Review »