Warm up (3 minutes) 1. Pick up a warm up

2. Pick up the student work from the front table

3. Pick up your binder in the filing cabinet

4. Complete the warm up

5. Secure all handouts in your binder

1. Is this rock alive? How do you know?

2. Is this tree alive? How do you know?

3. Is this dog alive? How do you know?

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- has completed a warm up - has their binder in front of them - has today’s work - is sitting in their assigned seat - has given 3 seconds of silence.

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Living Environment: Nature’s Sustainable Design

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Topic 1.6 Organization of

Life, p.16

Today’s Plan:

1. Warm Up (3 min)

2. Note Taking

3. Cell Theory Video

4. Organization of Life Card Sort

5. Exit Slip (5 min)

Today’s Objective:

Use the principles of cell theory to

understand the organization of

living things.

FOCUS QUESTION: What is life? How do we

know if something is “alive”?

1. How do you know if something is alive?

2. Cell Theory 1. All living things are made up of one or more

cells.

2. The cell is the basic unit of structure and function in living things.

3. All cells come from pre-existing cells.

3. Cell The smallest unit of life that is classified as a living thing. The “building blocks” of life.

The Weird History of the Cell Theory (4.-6.)

4. The invention of what piece of laboratory equipment was instrumental to discovering the existence of cells?

Answer: The microscope!

5. Cells and bacteria were first discovered by Leeuwenhoek in…

Answer: Dental scrapings!

6. Schleiden and Schwann disagreed about which piece of the cell theory?

Answer: Whether cells came from other cells or were created spontaneously.

7. Organization of Life All life can be organized in a hierarchy from most simple to most complex. Cells are the smallest units of organization that are considered alive.

Organization of Life

Directions: With your partner, arrange the cards showing the levels of organization of life in order from SMALLEST and most simple to LARGEST and most complex. When you have arranged all the cards, fill in the pyramid below.

Unit 1 Glossary

Directions: Use your notes to fill in the definitions of the four vocabulary words for Unit 1 that we have covered so far in class!

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Exit Slip (5 min) 1. Return to your assigned seat

2. Complete the exit slip

3. Clean up your workstation

4. Secure all handouts in your binder

5. Put your binder away.

1. How can you tell if something is alive?

1. Where do cells come from?