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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 »
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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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- 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 »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students analyze the relationships between surface area and volume. They conduct Internet research, conduct various experiments, record the data in a spreadsheet, and graph the results and compare the rate of increase of surface area to the rate of increase of volume. 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 »
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