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Students love these engaging activities on the Characteristics of Life and Cells. Easy to follow and fun to use and teach with you don’t have to add anything. This comprehensive Middle School 5E NGSS packet on living things and cells aligns perfectly with the NGSS Middle School MS-LS1-1 standard “Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells”.
“This helped my students think outside the box. I teach 6th grade gifted science. Keeping them on their toes can be challenging, so I like using resources like this to help challenge them while staying in guide lines of the school district”. Kristie Fraught
Over 40 pages of student activities, questions and notes complete and compliment this engaging resource which comes already differentiated for your students.
Here’s what’s included in this packet:
- Engagement activity including I CAN (editable) objective statement
- Explore – science station lab (see below)
- Explain – editable powerpoint
- Elaborate – 2 exciting student activities
- Evaluate – differentiated assessment
- Science stations signage
Science Stations
- Watch It – What is Life? This video gives a wonderful introduction to this topic and is perfect as an engagement activity. This station will require a computer with internet access to view the video.
- Describe It – Cells Observation. This activity lends itself well to a science station. You can get them to describe all or some of the cells depending on time. 5 photos showing both unicellular and multicellular cells are included.
- Label It – Label the Microscope. A lovely activity for a station especially if there’s a real microscope on the station to compliment the activity.
- Illustrate It – For this station you can have the students draw either a prepared slide e.g. onion cells or you can use the included photo.
- Read It – Cellular Life. This is a 2 page newspaper on the history of cell theory.
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- Distance Learning Cells, Tissues, Organs Google Drive Interactive Notebook
- Plant and Animal Cells
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