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- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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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- 5th - 9th
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Students design a visualization to illustrate the role of the protein kinesin in exocytosis of a secretory material in a directed manner. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students review the process of neurotransmission in the nervous system. They construct a simple neuronal circuit which demonstrates how ecstasy causes degradation of nerve terminals and axons that secrete the neurotransmitter called serotonin. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are put in groups of 6 to 8, and they are given 20-30 minutes to write, design, direct, and block out (determine location and movement) a skit that illustrates the function of a sarcomere, and all the steps involved in its contraction and relaxation. Each students must have a speaking part, with no one person dominating the performance. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »