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Edible Cell

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students identify cell parts and their function. For this animal cell lesson, students view a video clip and discuss cell components. Students create an edible replica of an animal cell using food items.
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Cell Size and Division or How Big Would You Want To Be if You Were a Cell?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate why cells divide. In this cell size lesson plan, students observe how far a solution travels into 3 different size model cells of agar. They answer questions about the most effect movement of "nutrients" into the...
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Mitosis Notes

For Students 7th - 9th
For this mitosis worksheet, students examine the different phases of cell division and fill in key points on a notes page. Teacher master for overhead included.
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Genetics and Heredity: The Next Generation

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders work in teams to order events of DNA transcription and translation protein synthesis. In the second lesson, they put the steps of mitosis and meiosis in order using a concept map poster. They use modeling clay to create...
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Never Say Die: The CLock of Life

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explore ways to turn back the genetic clock. They explore cells and mitosis. Students participate in an activity to create a flip book that will animate the process of mitosis. They explain each stage of mitosis.
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Meiosis

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Using yarn and chenille stems, lab groups collaborate to model mitosis and meiosis. Brief background information and a vaguely written procedure comprise this outline. More instruction needs to be provided to learners about cell division...
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Reviewing Mitosis/Mitosis

For Teachers 7th - 12th
There are technically two presentations in this collection of slides. The first presentation is a single-slide comparison of plant cell division and animal cell division. The second focuses on the steps of meiosis and the genetic...
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AP Biology Lab Review

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A seventy-two slide PowerPoint that reviews several lab explorations done in an AP Biology course. For each lab there is a description, concepts, and conclusions. Many pictures and graphics make this visually appealing, but it would not...
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Sunken Lesson: Animal Growth and Heredity Grade 5

For Teachers 5th
This animal growth PowerPoint includes bulleted text organized into categories including cell division, mitosis, regeneration, sexual and asexual reproduction, life cycles, metamorphosis, and inherited traits. Diagrams are included in...
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AP Biology Lesson Outline

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders research the different field of bioengineering. In this biology lesson, 9th graders differentiate meiosis and mitosis. They discuss the pros and cons of using radiation in medical diagnostics.
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How Many Cells Are Born in a Day?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students predict the number of cells after a series of cell divisions.  In this cells lesson students create a graph of their results and create a patterned drawing. 
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Cell Division Quiz #3

For Students 7th - 12th
In this cell division quiz worksheet, students complete an on-line game, clicking on questions and matching answer cards and scoring 1 point per correct answer. Printable version available also.
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GED Vocabulary: Life Science

For Students 9th - 12th
In this GED life science worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle given 8 clues about cell division, genetics, and the human body systems.
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Cell Division and Mitosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify each phase of mitosis and the main characteristics of each. Students prepare a microscope slide with onion root tip. Students observe the cell division occurring in the cells and label the mitosis phases observed.
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The Cell in Action

For Students 8th - 10th
In this cell worksheet, students are given five riddles to solve related to the concepts in the chapter on chromosomes and cell division.
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Cell Cycle

For Students 7th - 9th
In this cell cycle instructional activity, students fill in the blank with information about the cycle of a cell. Students sketch several drawings of different phases in the cell cycle.
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Cellular Transport and the Cell Cycle

For Students 8th - 10th
With a multitude of questions, this worksheet offers students the opportunity to review their knowledge about the cell cycle. Question types include true/false, word bank, and completing a table about the differences between interphase...
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Mitosis Flip Book

For Students 7th - 9th
In this mitosis worksheet, students draw the different phases of cell division as well as draw pictures of the organelles and how they move between phases.
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How Things Go Wrong

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify where mutations might occur and examine what effect those mutations will have through class discussion of DNA replication and cell division. Students then differentiate between mutations that affect individuals and...
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Reproduction and Heredity

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study the importance of cell division, compare cell division in prokaryotic and eucaryotic cells, identify the stages of mitosis and recognize meiosis in reproductive cells.
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Who Are We? An Introduction to the Life Within Our Bodies

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine cell structure, cell division, and the basic structure of DNA. They read and discuss a case study of DNA research, answer discussion questions, role-play the process of mitosis, and complete a DNA Fact or Fiction worksheet.
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Mitosis

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders describe the stages of mitosis. In this biology activity, 7th graders explain the importance of cell division. They complete an activity packet at the end of the activity.
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Mitosis and Meiosis

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students model and differentiate between the processes of mitosis and meiosis. In partners, they use yarn and construction paper to create models for each of the phases of mitosis and meiosis then compare the chromosome numbers in each...
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Meiosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice identifying the stages and purpose for meiosis. They use a worksheet to construct each phase, label its parts and describe the process occurring in each phase. they divide the process into meiosis I and meiosis II.