Living Earth · Week 28 · Structure, Function, and Health
Specialized for a Job
Explaining how cell differentiation gives cells different jobs and recognizing the different strengths classmates bring.
- Students will
- Students use evidence to explain how cells with the same DNA become specialized by using different genes, giving them different structures and functions.
- SEL skill
- Recognize and appreciate the different strengths classmates bring
- What it looks like
- Students recognize that classmates bring different strengths and take their perspective.
- Content focus
- Cell differentiation and jobs
- Format
- Group roles share
Social awareness
Social awareness is seeing a situation through someone else's eyes and caring about their experience, especially when it differs from yours. More social awareness 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: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Crosscutting concept: CCC6 Structure and function
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text and summarize them accurately.
- 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 social awareness activities for Living Earth
- Who Eats Whom in the Desert Social awarenessStudents model energy flow through a desert food web and reflect on who depends on them and whom they depend on.
- Partners in the Desert Social awarenessExplaining the partnership between the yucca and the yucca moth and noticing the quiet partnerships that hold a classroom together.
- Cycling Carbon Social awarenessModeling the carbon cycle through photosynthesis and respiration and tracing how one person's choices cycle through a community.
- Earth Shapes Life Social awarenessArguing how Earth's surface and life changed together over time and recognizing how surroundings shape people's stories.
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