Mitosis
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A lesson plan for grade 8 Science
This Science NetLinks lesson will introduce students to the step-by-step phases of mitosis in an effort to imprint on the young mind the idea that each cell is highly organized. In this lesson, students will make physical representations of mitosis. In addition, students will develop and act out a skit on the phases of mitosis.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 8
- Goal 6: The learner will conduct investigations, use models, simulations, and appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of cell theory.
- Objective 6.02: Analyze structures, functions, and processes within animal cells for:
- Capture and release of energy.
- Feedback information.
- Dispose of wastes.
- Reproduction.
- Movement.
- Specialized needs.
- Objective 6.04: Conclude that animal cells carry on complex chemical processes to balance the needs of the organism.
- Cells grow and divide to produce more cells.
- Cells take in nutrients to make the energy for the work cells do.
- Cells take in materials that a cell or an organism needs.
- Objective 6.02: Analyze structures, functions, and processes within animal cells for:
