Living Things Are Made of Cells: Planning and Conducting a Microscopy Investigation

Assessment · Grade 9 · 9th Grade Biology · state_ny

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Name: Launch
Minutes: 15
Purpose: Activate prior knowledge about what living things have in common and create cognitive need for microscopy by surfacing students' initial ideas about whether all living things share a common structural unit — without revealing that cells are the answer or how to find evidence for it.
Materials

Q1. Choose ONE specimen you observed today. Write a claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) response: Claim — Is this organism unicellular or multicellular? Evidence — What did you observe under the microscope that supports your claim? Reasoning — How does your evidence connect to the idea that all living things are made of cells?
Q2. Why can't you see cells in a leaf or in your skin just by looking at them with your naked eye? Use the idea of scale in your answer.

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