To Design Instruction, Option E:
Seeing the Cell as a System (Grades 9-12)

Science for All Americans and
Benchmarks for Science Literacy or appropriate excerpts

Chart paper
Markers
Blank transparencies

TRANSPARENCIES:
Central Benchmarks: Seeing the Cell as a System
Exploring Project 2061 Tools-5C
Strand Map: Cells as Systems
Exploring Project 2061 Tools-11A (Cell Lessons)
Principles for Lessons
Cell Words
Principles of Effective Learning and Teaching
Inquiry and Scientific Values
Steps in Designing Instruction

HANDOUTS:
Strand Map: Cells as Systems
Lesson Plan: Seeing the Cell as a System (9-12)
Benchmarks for Lesson Plan: Seeing the Cell as a System (9-12)
Steps in Designing Instruction
CELLS Through the Lens of Benchmarks: Reflections While Using a New Tool

For the class:
Bicycle

TRANSPARENCIES:
The Bicycle as a System
Questions to Ask About Systems
Paramecium

For each group of four students:

An item that may be considered a system, such as the classroom aquarium or pencil sharpener, a clock or watch, a plant, a student’s notebook, a balance, a mechanical toy, a model of the human eye, a hot plate, a flashlight Microscope and slide-making equipment (deep well slides may be desirable)
Culture of paramecia
Prepared slides of human body cells
 

For each student:

HANDOUT:
The Bicycle as a System
Questions to Ask About Systems
Paramecium