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🔬 7th Grade · ScienceMS-LS1-2Unit 1: Cells

Cell parts

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🎯 Objective: Students model the functions of the nucleus, membrane, mitochondria and chloroplasts.

Lesson outline

  1. Cell city analogy.
  2. Model.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: one organelle’s job.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MS-LS1-2

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), middle school — Life Science (discipline-specific model)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Show living things are made of cells
  • Model cell parts and their functions

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Cells”

  1. Living things are made of cells
  2. Cell parts
  3. Plant vs animal cells

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