Biology

Muffoletto Milleville Noel Carson

Unit: Cell organelles Hook: Cell Phones

Opening Activity:
 * Students enter and teacher is on cell phone.
 * Have students text someone (outside the building) and see who can get a text back from someone the farthest from the building. This is a contest.
 * Look up (on cell phone internet) how many cells are found in the human body.

Activities:
 * Brainstorm cell phone parts and make a graphic organizer as a group (using inspiration).
 * Cell parts - note taking and summarizing (use cellsalive.com to get definitions and summarize in own words)
 * Compare/Contrast - cell phone parts to cell parts using a T diagram.

Culminating Assessment:
 * Voicethread or video or podcast explaining the cell parts using a different analogy of their choice.

Closing Activity:
 * Actually showing the video or podcast.