Wouldn't it be great to learn about cells through osmosis? Introduce learners to the different mechanisms of active and passive transport with a video that shows how the different transports occur across the cell membrane, allowing only certain substances in and out of the cell. 

Concepts

cell membranes, telecommunications, active transport, passive transport, diffusion, osmosis, isotonic solutions, hypotonic solutions, hypertonic solutions

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the video to support concepts by showing it after teaching and discussing transport across cell membranes
• Stop video when learners have questions to reteach a concept, then replay parts of the video

Classroom Considerations

• Video refers to "ridiculously drunk people not being able to get into a club" in an analogy of the permeability of a membrane
• Video five in a series of 40

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Great visuals show different transports of substances across a membrane
• The narrator has a dry, witty humor which will keep high school learners engaged
• Interesting segment on Jens Christian Skou who discovered the sodium-potassium pump

Cons

• Contains a plethora of vocabulary which may be difficult for some learners 

Common Core

RST.11-12.2