MS-LS1-2 Plant and Animal Cells Lab

Description

MS-LS1-2 Plant and Animal Cells Lab Preview

SNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students’ understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.

SNAPs lab activities have five components:
• Science Skills Station to develop science skill proficiency
• Narrative Station to build science literacy
• Assessment Station to evaluate learning and understanding
• Problem-Solving Station to foster engineering design
• Synthesis Station and Project to inspire higher-order learning

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DIGITAL LABORATORY – DISTANCE LEARNING & DIGITAL CLASSROOMS
• This lab is offered in a digital format to support digital classrooms & distance learning.
• The digital lab activity is designed to work with Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint
• The digital lab activity CANNOT be edited. However:
– Students can manipulate text boxes
– Students can create tables, graphs and diagrams
– Students can insert images and drawings

GOOGLE FORM ASSESSMENT STATION
• The assessment station is offered as a self-grading Google Form.
• Questions are all short answer and are 100% editable.
• Suggestions for use are included in the download.

DISTANCE LEARNING COMPATIBILITY
SNAPs lab activities are rated for their ease with distance – independent learning. Refer to the preview for more information about how well this laboratory works in a fully digital classroom and with distance learning.

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EDITABLE DOCUMENTS
This download includes an editable word document (docx file) of all lab components:
• Pre-Lab and Post-Lab Activities
• The Lab Overview
• Lab Station Activities and Questions
• Directed Synthesis Project (when applicable)

Important Notes:
• Diagrams, illustrations, tables and graphs essential to lab activities are included
• Illustrative clipart is NOT included
• Editable documents and rubrics are included with the FREE SNAPs Setup Guide

Editable files allow you to:
• Edit the scope of the activities so to suit your students’ needs
• Edit the materials required based on resource availability
• Create single-period “mini-labs” using activities at the individual skills stations

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The activities at each station in this lab are detailed below.

Animal and Plant Cells Lab Learning Objectives
1. Identify and describe organelles in animal and plant cells.
2. Use a light microscope to observe an animal and plant cell.
3. Create a model of the cell organelles in an animal cell.
4. Evaluate how the overall function of a cell depends on the contributions of individual organelles.
5. Compare and contrast the structure and function of an animal and plant cell.

Science Skills Station
Students will use a light microscope to visualize animal and plant cells at this station. They will compare the structure of the cells and discuss how the differences in structure lead to differences in the function of the cells.

Note: Images of cheek and onion cells at 100x and 400x are provided if light microscopes are unavailable.

Narrative Station
Students will read informational texts about plant and animal cells. They will identify common and different structures between the types of cells. Students will also discuss how common organelles are different between the types of cells.

Assessment Station
At this station, students will answer questions about key terms and ideas relating to plant and animal cells. Students must employ lower, mid and higher order thinking skills to answer these questions.

Problem-Solving Station
Students will evaluate the contributions of individual organelles to the overall function of human body cells at this station. They will identify problems that occur when an organelle is impaired or damaged.

Synthesis Station
Students will compose a CER (claim-evidence-reasoning) report to summarize the lab. Students are provided the claim statement and must support the claim with observations, data and other information gathered in the lab. Students will explain how the evidence supports the claim using scientific reasoning.

Synthesis Project
Students will have a choice of 11 projects. Refer to the SNAPs Lab Stations Best Practices and Setup Guide for directions and suggestions on how to conduct the project.

Directed Synthesis Project
Students can conduct one of the 11 standard synthesis projects, but I strongly suggest using the directed synthesis project to best summarize the information in this lab. In the directed project, students will create a model of an animal and plant cell. They will identify, label and describe important organelles in the cells.

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This download includes:
• A pre-lab assignment and post-lab reflection
• Directions and questions for each lab station
• Student recording sheets
• Teacher Key

Additional Materials Required:
1 Light microscope
Glass slides (2 per group)
Coverslips (2 per group)
Red onion (cut into 1-centimeter wide slices)
Cotton swabs or toothpicks
Lugol’s solution (iodine)
Methylene blue
Tweezers
Paper towels (for cleanup)
1 Computer or tablet
If performing the directed synthesis project in class you will also need:
Scissors
Glue
Markers
Sturdy paper (to build the model upon)
Various arts and crafts materials (foam, pipe cleaners, molding clay, etc)

LINKS TO VIDEOS
This laboratory requires internet to access videos. Videos are hosted on SafeShare.TV so to safely watch and share educational YouTube videos without ads, comments and other distractions. Shortened and full link(s) to SafeShare.TV included. Full link to original YouTube video(s) included.

NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS
This laboratory satisfies NGSS MS-LS1-2. It combines the three dimensions of science learning – science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts – to meet the standard. This lab also makes interdisciplinary connections to STEM, Math CCSS and ELA CCSS to build the appropriate skills.

TERMS OF USE
• All rights reserved by Stephanie Elkowitz.
• This product is to be used by the original purchaser only.
• Intended for classroom and personal use only.
• Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited.
• This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view.
• Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).