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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Organization of Cells

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how cells are organized in living things and explains the origin and significance of multicellular organisms.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Evolutionary Biology: Organism

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explaining what organisms are, their cellular foundation, and how they get their energy and nutrition. (Published: May 26, 2010)
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Other

Principia Cybernetica Web: Multicellular Organisms

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms. Includes related sources.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Organization of the Human Body

For Students 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A variety of learning opportunuties about levels of organization in the human body. Includes videos, activities, discussion questions, and quizzes.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Evolution of Eukaryotes to Multicellular Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The evolution of eukaryotic cells and multicellular organisms.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Evolution of Eukaryotes to Multicellular Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The evolution of eukaryotic cells and multicellular organisms.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Organization of Cells

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how multicelled organisms have specialized cells that do specific jobs and single celled organisms exist without the help of other cells.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Multicellular vs. Unicellular Organisms

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the characteristics of unicellular and multicellular organisms and gives examples for each.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Levels of Organization

For Students 5th - 7th
FSERL: Explanation of the hierarchical levels of living things.
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Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Animal Systems

For Students 3rd - 9th
An overview of the structure and function of a complex, multicellular organism. This article discusses levels of organization and examples of systems.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 2.3 Cell Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the cell theory and levels of organization in a multicellular organism.
Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Multicellular Life

For Students 9th - 10th
To describe the diversity of unicellular organisms which arose over 2 billion years of evolution.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:odyssey of Life Ii the Unknown World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Observe organisms in various environments, determine what enables the organisms to live in that environment and discuss the varied biological functions of the organisms.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Taxonomy

For Students 9th - 10th
In this multi-media module students derive the relationship between single-celled and multi-celled organisms and the increasing complexity of systems.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.1 Human Body

For Students 5th - 9th
Explore the levels of organization in the human body.
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Introduction to Development

For Students 9th - 10th
How does an organism go from a single cell to something as complex as a frog, fly, or human being? Learn the basic principles of development.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: The Cell Theory

For Students 5th - 7th
Learn how the Cell Theory defines living organisms.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Observe, Describe, Compare and Contrast Cells

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This investigation allows students to observe cells from multiple sources. Plant, animal and bacterial cells will be observed as well as cells from multicellular organisms and single-celled organisms. After providing written descriptions...
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City University of New York

Exploring Life: The First Cells

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief essay about older and more recent ideas on when the first cells evolved. Good coverage of different scientific theories about the origin of life.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Protist Characteristics

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Protists are eukaryotes, which means their cells have a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles. Most protists are single-celled. Other than these features, they...
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Introductory Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from an introduction to biology course taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The course covers fundamental topics like biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology with thirty-four...
Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Cell Structure and Function

For Students 2nd - 8th
Explains cell structure and function and describes the parts of a cell.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Cell Structures

For Students 9th - 10th
Organisms are made of cells. Most organisms are multicellular and have cells that are specialised to do a particular job. Microscopes produce magnified images of cells so we can study them in detail. This lesson focuses on animal cells.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Gastrointestinal Tract

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides excellent resources and information on the gastrointestinal or digestive tract, including images and hyperlinked terms.