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Life Processes 4 Plants & Animals 4.6 Cells
Sc 2: Life Processes
4 Plants
4.6 Cells
P.O.S.
Key Stage 1 Sc 1: 1,2f
Key Stage 2 Sc 1: 1b,2e, 2f
Key Stage 3 Sc 2: 1b,1e
Life Processes 4 Plants & Animals 4.6 Cells
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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Is able to use a magnifier
Knows that magnifiers can make objects larger and more detailed.
Knows some everyday uses of magnifiers
Can begin to explain why it is helpful to make things look bigger
Know that animals and plants are made of cells.
Can name some simple cell parts
Know that plant and animal cells are similar in many respects
Is able to use a microscope - possibly with help.
ICT
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CD Roms
Intel microscope
ACTIVITIES
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Allow children to explore with magnifiers
Discuss with children when they have
previously used magnifiers
Look at lots of objects using magnifiers and
then the microscope on low power.
Make finger prints and look at with a magnifier
Look at pond water samples.
Look at moss dry and then after water is
added.
Look at filter paper to see holes or fabric to see
threads.
Discuss and look for everyday uses for
magnifiers e.g removing splinters, looking at
small print, looking at finger prints, threading
needles
Make simple slides using sellotape and a piece
of card.
LINKS
VOCABULARY
Art
Cell, microscope, magnification, magnifying glass/hand
lens, magnifiers, plant, animal, nucleus, cell wall,
cytoplasm, cell membrane
RESOURCES
POINTS TO NOTE
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Microscopes
Prepared slides
Boivewers
Photographs
Digital Microscope (computer)
Iodine solution
Slides/cover slips
Home made playdough
Saturated solutions e.g salt, sugar, alum
Finger printing ink
card
Name of
object here
Fold sellotape over to seal in object
Sellotape
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Microscopes can be difficult to focus and it might
be better to use those recommended by Royal
Microscopical Society for Primary Pupils.
Digital (computer) microscope may be easier to
use and ensure that all see the same.
Use cellulose paste because wallpaper paste
contains fungicide
It is important that the magnification isn’t too large
or pupils lose the sense of what they are seeing.
When using a magnifying glass keep it close to
your eye and move the specimen away until it is
focussed.
Life Processes 4 Plants & Animals 4.6 Cells
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Observe drops of saturated solutions as water
evaporates. When and where do any crystals
appear?
Examine letters and newsprint – which way
round are they?
Use the INTEL microscope to take timelapse
pictures of mould growing.
Examine prepared slides of cells using
bioviewers, hand lenses, digital microscope.
Make slides of onion cells/animal cells. Draw
what you see.
Make a model onion/leaf cell/animal cell (2D).
Make a 3D model of a cell (Small plastic bags
filled with cellulose paste to represent
cytoplasm, suitable objects to represent the
nucleus – plant cells can also be made with the
bags are squeezed into boxes).
Ask pupils to identify how plant and animal
cells are different.
Label parts of cell: cytoplasm, nucleus, cell
wall, cell membrane.
Make model cells with coloured playdough and
cut a cross section
OWN ACTIVITIES
POSSIBLE INVESTIGATIONS
Compare finger- prints using different media? What makes the clearest prints?
Life Processes 4 Plants & Animals 4.6 Cells
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Date Record Began:
Outcomes: NC Level 1  NC Level 4
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Can use a hand lens or magnifying glass
1+
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Can tell you that a hand lens makes things look bigger
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Can describe some things that they an see through the hand lens
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Can make a simple drawing of what they see with a hand lens
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Can label features seen with a magnifier that are also apparent to
the naked eye
Can describe simple differences between what they see with a hand
lens and naked eye
Can give an example of when it is useful to use a magnifier
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2+
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4
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Can make a more detailed drawing of what they see with a hand
lens or microscope
Knows that cells are too small to see with eyes alone
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Can use a light microscope that has been set up by an adult
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Knows that plants and animals are made of tiny building blocks called cells
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Can show you where to put the slide or object on a microscope and where the
focusing knob is
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Can name some simple cell parts with prompting
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Can focus the microscope on low power
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Can label or annotate features of a drawing that are only apparent when magnified