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