From Cells to Ecosystems

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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.
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Key Learning Cells are the basic unit of living
things.
Unit Essential Question How does understanding
cells and how they work increase our knowledge of
living things?
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Concept From Cells to Ecosystems
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How do living things differ from nonliving things?

• 1. Read page B6 in your textbook.
• Characteristics of Living Things-lab activity
• Click on the link above.
• Read the Objective and Getting Started.
• Click here and fill in the six characteristics of
  living things under the Review section and save
  in My Documents as characteristics_your name.
  (Dont write your namefill your actual name in
  there.) The answers are found on the next slide
  for reference later.
• Follow the directions on the online worksheet for
  the remainder of the activity.

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• Characteristics of living things
• (ANSWERS)
• Nutrition- need food
• Respiration- use energy
• Excretion- get rid of wastes
• Response and movement-
• Growth- and develop
• 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)
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What is the basic unit of living things?

• 1. Read page B7 8 in your textbook.
• Click here to read The history of the
  Microscope.
• Read page B9-10 in your textbook.
• Click on the next few slides to view the
  different types of cells that make up your body.

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Blood Cells
http//brucemhood.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/bloo
d_cells.jpg
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Nerve Cell
http//www.becomehealthynow.com/images/organs/nerv
ous/nerve_cell1.jpg
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Bone Cell
https//vault.swri.org/cms/upload/cells_500pixels.
jpg
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Skeletal Muscle Cell
http//www.uic.edu/classes/bios/bios100/labs/skele
tal_muscle.jpg
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Skin Cell
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4 Main Groups of Human Tissues

• muscle
• nervous tissue
• epithelial tissue
• connective tissue

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

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Muscle
Designed to contract and move
intercalated discs
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Nervous Tissue
Designed to transport messages
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Epithelial Tissue
Designed to cover, protect, absorb, and line
stratified epithelium lining trachea (respiratory
system)
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Connective Tissue
fat
cartilage
bone
blood
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Read the story of a cell! Click on the link
below.
http//www.icnet.uk/kids/cellsrus/cellsrus.html
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Resources

• http//www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/activ
  ities/classroom/characteristics/ca_characteristics
  .php
• http//www.smm.org/tissues/index.php?soundToggle1
  
• http//www.az-microscope.on.ca/history.htm
• http//www.icnet.uk/kids/cellsrus/cellsrus.html