Cells: The Building Blocks of Life

Lesson Plan · Grade 9 · 9th Grade Biology · state_ny

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• 9

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• gradual_release

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• Name: Warm-up
• Minutes: 10
• Purpose: Activate students' prior knowledge about living things and what makes something 'alive,' priming them to connect familiar ideas about organisms to the concept of cells as the fundamental unit of life before microscope investigation begins.
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Differentiation

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Exit Ticket Suggestion

• Q1. Using evidence from today's microscope investigation, explain: Are living things made of cells? Include at least one specific observation from a specimen you examined and explain why scale matters in your investigation.

• Q2. What is the difference between a unicellular and a multicellular organism? Give one example of each from today's lesson.

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