Course Materials
Click on the link above to access all of the handouts for this unit!
Presentations
Practicals
- “An Apple a Day” – Experimental Design
- Homeostasis Practical – Jumping Jacks Data Collection
- Yeast Practical
- Disease Spreading – AIDS
- Microscopes Part I – Introduction
- Cell Membranes – Egg Osmosis
- Microscopes Part II – Animal Cells
- Microscopes Part III – Plant Cells
- Bean Dissection
- Plant Growth
Tutorials/Activities
- Ebola Distribution Map – CDC
- Are Viruses Alive? – Discussion Forum
- C.E.C: Immune System
- Flu Vaccine Campaign (Rubric)
- Making Vaccines – Animation
- Cell Structure – Animals and Plants
- Cell Structure – Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic
- Cell Analogy Project
- Stem Cell Introduction
- Stem Cell Controversy
Videos
- Introduction to the Characteristics of Life
- Cell Phone Bacteria – Eww!
- Cell Phone Bacteria from BBC – Eww!
- Are Viruses Alive? – DNews
- Flu Attack! (How a Virus Invades Your Body) NPR
- David Bolinsky – Visualizing the wonder of a living cell