Living Earth · Week 27 · Structure, Function, and Health
Cells That Grow and Repair
Modeling mitosis and tissue repair and learning simple steps to repair a strained friendship.
- Students will
- Students model the stages of mitosis and explain how cell division and differentiation replace and repair tissues in a multicellular organism.
- SEL skill
- Use four steps to repair a strained friendship and trust again
- What it looks like
- Students learn simple steps for repairing a strained friendship and trusting again.
- Content focus
- Mitosis and tissue repair
- Format
- Role play
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean building and keeping healthy relationships through communication, listening, cooperation, and working through conflict. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-LS1-4: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP2 Developing and using models
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.5 Analyze the structure of the relationships among concepts in a text.
- Traditional course: Biology
Fits these textbook chapters
- California HMH Science Dimensions: The Living Earth, Unit 7: Structure and Function in Living Things
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More relationship skills activities for Living Earth
- Cooperation in Nature Relationship skillsArguing from evidence that group behavior like flocking and herding helps survival, then setting team norms that help a lab group thrive.
- Life Without Oxygen Relationship skillsExplaining aerobic and anaerobic conditions in the Salton Sea and practicing clear, kind explanations with a partner.
- Extinction and Resilience Relationship skillsEvaluating claims about how environmental change leads to decline or new species, and how groups rebuild trust after setbacks.
- Breeding for a Hotter Valley Relationship skillsTeams explain how growers select heat tolerant date and citrus varieties and share roles fairly in the investigation.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.