From Cells to Ecosystems 1.View this PowerPoint as a slideshow on your computer. Directions 2. Use the following two slides to fill out the Key Learning,

From Cells to Ecosystems

1.View this PowerPoint as a slideshow on your computer.

Directions

2. Use the following two slides to fill out the Key Learning, Unit Essential Question, and the first Concept on your student learning map.3. Follow the directions given in all other slides to explore the levels of organization of living things.

Key LearningCells are the basic unit of living things.

Unit Essential QuestionHow does understanding cells and how they work increase our knowledge of living things?

Concept

From Cells to Ecosystems

1. Read page B6 in your textbook.2. Characteristics of Living Things-lab activi

ty 1. Click on the link above.2. Read the “Objective” and “Getting Started.”3. Click here and fill in the six characteristics of living things

under the “Review” section and save in “My Documents” as characteristics_your name. (Don’t write “your name”…fill your actual name in there.) The answers are found on the next slide for reference later.

4. Follow the directions on the online worksheet for the remainder of the activity.

How do living things differ from nonliving

things?

Characteristics of living things(ANSWERS)1.Nutrition- need food2.Respiration- use energy3.Excretion- get rid of wastes4.Response and movement- 5.Growth- and develop6.Reproduction

Please have your student learning map out to fill in the first essential question on the next slide. (under the concept “From Cells to Ecosystems”)

1. Read page B7 & 8 in your textbook.2. Click here to read “The history of

the Microscope”.3. Read page B9-10 in your textbook.4. Click on the next few slides to view

the different types of cells that make up your body.

What is the basic unit of living things?

Blood Cells

http://brucemhood.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/blood_cells.jpg

Nerve Cell

http://www.becomehealthynow.com/images/organs/nervous/nerve_cell1.jpg

Bone Cell

https://vault.swri.org/cms/upload/cells_500pixels.jpg

Skeletal Muscle

Cellhttp://www.uic.edu/classes/bios/bios100/labs/skeletal_muscle.jpg

Skin

Cell

4 Main Groups of Human Tissues

• muscle• nervous tissue• epithelial tissue • connective tissue

o Click here to view slides of these four types of tissue in an online microscope activity.o Click through slides 14-17 for more details and pictures about these tissues.

Muscle

intercalated

discs

Designed to contract and move

Nervous TissueDesigned to transport messages

Epithelial Tissue

stratified epithelium lining trachea (respiratory system)

Designed to cover, protect, absorb, and line

Connective Tissue

cartilage bone blood

fat

http://www.icnet.uk/kids/cellsrus/cellsrus.html

Read the story of a cell! Click on the link below.

Resources• http://www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/

activities/classroom/characteristics/ca_characteristics.php

• http://www.smm.org/tissues/index.php?soundToggle=1

• http://www.az-microscope.on.ca/history.htm• http://www.icnet.uk/kids/cellsrus/cellsrus.html