Download The Cell Unit Plan

Madras High School
Unit Plan
Subject: Biology
Grades: 9-10
Semester: 1
Unit of Study: The Cell
Pacing-Teaching:
Interactive Notes: Five class periods
Practice work assignments: Seven class periods; there are six practice work
assignments and a review listed on Ms. Fugate’s website.
Activities: One practice lab with microscopes, two videos (cell structure and function
and the endosymbiont theory), and a virtual cell activity.
Assessments: One lab, one project and an exam
Materials can be accessed
from: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B_xbBGrOHjEgU2c4c3pVNWpBYm
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Assessment Pacing: This unit takes about 4 weeks to complete.
Essential Questions:
1. Compare and contrast prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
2. Identify three regions of eukaryotic cells.
3. Identify eukaryotic cell organelles and their functions.
4. Identify organic molecules that make up cellular structures
5. Describe the differences between eukaryotic plant and animal cells
Oregon State Standards (including Madras High School Priority Standards in Bold, and
Supporting Standards non-bolded)
H.2L.1 Explain how energy and chemical elements pass through systems. Describe how chemical
elements are combined and recombined in different ways as they cycle through the various levels of
organization in biological systems.
Common Core Writing Standards:
• CCSS-LITERACY.RST.9-10.3 Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out
experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or
exceptions defined in the text.
• CCSS-WRITING 9-10.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and
style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Concepts (Need to Know)
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Compare and contrast the
different types of cells.
Identify the regions of the cell.
Identify the macromolecules
that make up cellular
structures.
Compare the cellular structures
of plant and animal cells and
describe the function of these
structures.
Skills
Observation, problem
solving, writing, compare
and contrast reading,
laboratory skills
Blooms
Level
Interactive Notes: 1
and 2
Practice work
assignments: 1,2,3
Activities: 3 and 6
Assessments:
1,2,3,4,5,6
*Blooms level: 1 -Remember, 2-Understand, 3-Apply, 4- Analyze, 5-Evaluate, 6-Create
*Assessment levels: 1-Beginning to identify, 2- Developing simple knowledge & skills, 3
Proficient- demonstrates knowledge & skills along with applying details, 4- Masterydemonstrates knowledge & skills along with analyzing, evaluating, and being able to create.
Vocabulary: cell membrane • cell theory • cell wall • chlorophyll • chloroplasts• chromosome •
cilia • contrast • cytoplasm • cytoskeleton• cytosol • DNA • depth of focus • diaphragm •
eukaryote • field of view • flagella • golgi body • lysosome • magnification • mitochondria •
nuclear membrane (envelope) • nucleolus • nucleus • objective lens • ocular lens • prokaryote
• resolution • ribosome • RNA • rough endoplasmic reticulum • smooth endoplasmic reticulum
• vacuole
Assessments:
GRADED ASSESSEMENTS/ PROFICIENCIES
Cell Lab (Microscope)
Cell Project
Unit Exam
COMPLETION DATE
GRADE
Cell
Microscope
lab
F
C
B
A
Assignment is
incomplete or has
not reached a C level
proficiency grade.
Assignment is mostly
complete with a few
small errors. Most
structures are labeled
correctly and
drawings may be
hastily done, but are
mostly accurate.
Assignment is
complete with 1 or 2
small errors.
Answers are written
in complete
sentences. Structures
are labeled correctly,
and drawings are
accurate and to scale.
Assignment is
complete. All
questions are
answered correctly
and in complete
sentences. Structures
are labeled correctly,
and drawings are
detailed, accurate,
and to scale.
B
A
Project
F
C
Missing or
incomplete
information on how
to tell the difference
between cell types.
Lists at least 3
differences between
prokaryotic and
eukaryotic cells.
Explains at least 4
differences between
prokaryotic and
eukaryotic cells and
provide examples of
organisms with each
cell type.
Clearly explain at
least 5 differences
between prokaryotic
and eukaryotic cells
and provide examples
of organisms with
each cell type.
Identify three
regions of
eukaryotic
cells
Missing or
incomplete
information on the 3
cell regions.
Lists the 3 cell
regions.
Clearly explains the 3
cell regions and
provides full
descriptions for each.
Identify
organic
molecules that
make up
cellular
Doesn’t identify the
organic molecules
that make up cellular
structures.
Lists organic
molecules that make
up cell structures
such as cell
membranes and cell
walls.
Names the 3 cell
regions and provides
some additional
descriptive
information.
Discusses some of
the organic
molecules which
make up cell
membranes, cell
walls, and ribosomes.
Compare and
contrast
prokaryotic
and eukaryotic
cells
Identifies and fully
describes the organic
molecules which
make up cell
membranes, cell
walls, ribosomes, and
structures
Identify
eukaryotic cell
organelles and
their functions
Describe the
differences
between
eukaryotic
plant and
animal cells
the cytoskeleton.
Does not identify at
least 5 organelles
and their functions.
Section is missing or
does not describe the
differences between
plant and animal
cells.
Explains the following
5 cell organelles and
their functions: cell
membrane, nucleus,
ribosomes,
chloroplast,
mitochondria
List at least three
differences between
plant and animal
cells.
Explains at least 8
organelles/
structures found in
eukaryotic cells and
their functions
Clearly explains 10 or
more organelles/
structures found in
eukaryotic cells and
their functions
Explains at least 3
differences between
plant and animal cells
including their
general shapes and
structures.
Fully explains at least
4 differences
between plant and
animal cells including
their general shapes
and structures.