OpenStax
Open Stax: Cell Growth and Division
The following site provides information regarding the process of cell growth and division.
Vision Learning
Vision Learning: Cells: Discovery and Basic Structure
This module focuses on cell structure and how the organelles function together to form the smallest unit of life. The cell theory is also discussed along with the basics features of the cell. Site also includes an interactive practice...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Cell Biology: Discovery and Structure of Cells
Explanation of when the cell was discovered and how ideas have evolved into modern cell theory. Discover the cell structures and their functions.
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Seer Training Modules: Cells, Tissues, and Membranes
Self-guided learning activity where students learn about cell structure and function, different types of tissues, and various kinds of membranes in the body. There is a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.
Nature Research
Nature Education: Scitable: Cell Energy and Cell Functions
An excerpt from the eBook, "Essentials of Cell Biology, Unit 1.2." Text and illustrations allow for deeper understanding of cells.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Cell Organelles and Their Functions
Learn about the complex structures inside cells and what their functions are.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: What Do Your Cells Do?
Information on cells, including looking at cells, what a cell is made of, how cells make proteins, why cells differ, and new cells for old.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Cell Biology
Make learning about cells fun and easy with a collection of short video clips about cellular biology. Find out about the structure and function of the main organelles inside an animal cell.
Other
Massengale's Biology Junction: Cell Functions
A chart which identifies each part of a cell, the location, the description, and the function.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Plant Cell: Animal Cell Anatomy
This is a thorough site which contains a glossary of plant/animal cell anatomy terms. Diagrams of both cells are included along with worksheets to label.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Identifying Eukaryotic Animal Cell Organelles
This is a tutorial slideshow showing the internal structure of an animal eukaryotic cell. Each slide has excellent labeled drawings accompanied by descriptive text explaining the function of each part.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Microbiology: Cells
Article describing the parts of a cell. Includes chart listing the main parts of a cell and their definitions. Discusses some of the ways a cell can become damaged. (Published: February 28, 2008)
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of General Medical Sciences: Inside the Cell
Very good science e-book that details why cells are the fundamental unit of life and why our health depends on what happens within the many different cells that make up our body. Each chapter is presented separately and the book can also...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cell Cycle Checkpoints
Learn how cells use checkpoints to regulate the cell cycle. This article provides an overview of cell cycle control, outlining the factors that influence a cell's decision to pause or progress at each checkpoint.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: A Tour of the Cell
Imagine having a microscopic camera so small that you could travel inside a cell. This interactive site allows you to do just that. Click on any one of eight individual parts of the cell--cell membrane, nucleus, DNA, RNA, ribosome,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Cells
In this unit, students look at the components of cells and their functions and discover the controversy behind stem cell research. The first lesson focuses on the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. In the second lesson,...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Cell Talk [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, 5th graders will examine cell diagrams, then use their body, voice, and movement to become a particular part of a cell. Next, they work in pairs to create a dialogue between the different parts of the...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Cell Structure
This lesson focuses on bacteria cells including their structures and functions, cell structures in common with bacteria, plants and animals, and a comparison between Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. It also provides links to a video and...
Other
University of Cincinnati: Project Step: Cell Structure and Function
Engaging, interactive lesson plan focusing on cells being the basic units of structure and function of all living things. Students will be able to explain the different roles of each structure and how they relate to each other.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Cells the Living School
Students compare the parts of a cell and their functions to their school to understand how a cell's parts work in unison to be effective in the body.
City University of New York
Cell Biology: An Interactive Journey
This interactive website about microscopes and microbes provides students with an introduction to cellular biology.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Cell Structure Aqa
This lesson focuses on plant cell structures including the parts of cell structures and their functions, cell structures that are in both plants and animals, and the cell structures found only in plants and their functions. Links to a...
Texas A&M University
Peer Curricula: Cells Are Us
Find five instructional units on cells: levels of organization, interacting with the outside world, creating energy for the cell, coding and translating instructions, and making protein "machinery" to do things. Each unit is broken down...
Nature Research
Nature Education: Scitable: Essentials of Cell Biology
Explains how cells send and receive signals. Includes a quiz that can be completed after free registration.