Unit Planner

Unit Title

Cells

Year level

Strands & Sub-strands

Resources

Aims & Overview

Science as a Human Endeavour

Laptops
Textbooks
Microscopes
Slides with cells on them
Students will understand the different components of the cell and how this fits in with disease treatment

Duration

4 weeks

Lessons per Week

3x40 min lesson

1x80 min lesson

Key Idea
(Content descriptors)

People use understanding and skills from across the disciplines of science in their occupations (ACSHE227) Cells are the basic
units of living things and have specialised structures and functions (ACSSU149)

Elaboration(s)

recognising the role of knowledge of cells and cell divisions in the area of disease treatment and control
examining a variety of cells using a light microscope, by digital technology or by viewing a simulation
distinguishing plant cells from animal or fungal cells
identifying structures within cells and describing their function
recognising that cells reproduce via cell division
describing mitosis as cell division for growth and repair

Capabilities

Literacy
Critical and creative thinking
Information and communication technology

Assessment Activity
(Summative)

Models, test, laboratory right up and poster

Time
line

Learning
Cycle
Phase

Key Concepts &

Skills

Week 1
Lesson
1& 2

Engage/
Explore

Understanding what
they already know
and looking at a cell

Students will do preassessment task

Then they will look at
their own cells under a
microscope

Pre-assessment
(formative) on
Kahoot!

https://create.kahoot.it/
#quiz/c5bc73c2-2f714c87-9e31638cf3f80528

Information and
communication
technology

Lesson
3

Explore

What different parts

of the cell are
Eg mitochondria,
Golgi body

Watch video, then

students can form groups
to look closely at different
words and organisms

Students can replay

video if needed, and
work at their own pace

https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?
v=URUJD5NEXC8

Information and
communication
technology

Lesson
4

Explore

Work through what

the organelles do

Play game and make a

dictionary

Students will
hand up there
dictionary for
formative
assessment

Students can work at

their own pace

http://www.biomanbio.
com/GamesandLabs/C
ellgames/CellExplorer
AnimalCell.html

Information and
communication
technology
Literacy

Lesson
5

Explain

Look at how
proteins are made
and each step joins
together

Class are all different

parts of the cell

Literacy
Critical and
creative thinking

Look at different
types of cells

Follow the website in

small groups looking at
the differences

Students can work at

their own pace

http://www.cellsalive.c
om/cells/cell_model.ht
m

Information and
communication
technology
Literacy

Look at the nucleus

Watch a the clip and try

and break down words eg

http://ed.ted.com/on/A
s6P12Qb

Information and
communication

Week Explain
2
Lesson
6&7
Lesson Elaborate
8

Teaching and
Learning Activities

Assessment
Activities

Differentiation

Resources and
Equipment

Capabilities

mrna and dna

Lesson Elaborate
9

Look at
chromosomes

Lesson Evaluate
10

Get a great
understanding of
each organelle

Week Evaluate
3
lesson
11&12
Lesson Engage/
Explore
13

technology
Literacy

Talk about chromosomes

and how if part of one is
missing it can lead to a
higher chance of disease
eg colour blindness
Students will get into
pairs, be given an
organelle and present a 2
minute oral on it

Formative
assessment on the
students oral
presentations

Textbook and previous

resources

Literacy
Critical and
creative thinking

Show their
understanding of a
cell

In groups of 3 students
will have to make a plant
cell, an animal cell and a
fungal cell

Summative
assessment on the
models

Students will be given

organelle depending on
their level of readiness
e.g. high readiness
students get nucleus.
-

Any previously used

resources

Literacy
Critical and
creative thinking

What is mitosis

Students will be different

chromosomes and
physically undergo
mitosis.

Critical and
creative thinking

Lesson Explain/
Elaborate
14

Look into the

different phases of
mitosis

Watch video as a class

and break down the
different parts

Students with a high

level of readiness can
examine
http://www.dnai.org/c/in
dex.html
Students can watch it in
their own time and
replay and learn

https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=L0kenzoeOM

Information and
communication
technology

Lesson Evaluate
15

Look back over all Revision and mini quiz

that they have
learnt including
the stages of
mitosis
Identify organelles Laboratory work
and replication on
slides of animal
and plant cells and
EM pictures
Look at diseases
Look at what can go

Summative small
test

Summative
laboratory write
up

Microscopes and
slides

Information and
communication
technology

Week Evaluate
4
Lesson
16&17
Lesson Engage/

Literacy
-

18

Explore

like cancer that

come through cell
division

wrong in cell division

Lesson Explain/
Elaborate
19

Look into a specific

disease or treatment
that can come from
cell division

Students make a poster

with the information that
they find

Summative poster
review

Students can choose

whatever they like in the
scope of the course

Laptops and text books

Lesson Evaluate
20

Review of what
they have learnt

Students posters will be

hung up around the
room for people to look
at

As above

Assessment task
(standards being assessed)
Pre-test (See that students
have met all previous
ACARA achievement
standards)
Handmade dictionaries
(Literacy capability)

Australian Curriculum
Standards
-

weighting

Description of activity

0%
(Formative)

Cells are the basic units

of living things and have
specialised structures and

0%
(Formative)

Students will use an

already set up test on
Kahoot! to assess their
prior knowledge
Students will make a
dictionary of words they
need to know

Literacy
Critical and
creative thinking
Information and
communication
technology
-

Who will be assessing

and assessing strategy
Teacher assessment by
Product analysis

Time
allocated
5 minutes to
do the test

Due date

Teacher assessment by
Product analysis

2 lessons

End of
lesson 4

Oral Presentation
(identifying structures
within cells and describing
their function)
Model (distinguishing
plant cells from animal or
fungal cells and identifying
structures within cells and
describing their function)
Test (distinguishing plant
cells from animal or fungal
cells, identifying structures
within cells and describing
their function identifying
structures within cells and
describing their function,
recognising that cells
reproduce via cell division
and describing mitosis as
cell division for growth
and repair)
Laboratory write-up
(distinguishing plant cells
from animal or fungal
cells, identifying
structures within cells and
describing their function
identifying structures
within cells and describing
their function, recognising
that cells reproduce via
cell division and

functions (ACSSU149)
Cells are the basic units
of living things and have
specialised structures and
functions (ACSSU149)

0%
(Formative)

Students will give a 2

minute presentation on one
organelle in the cell

Teacher, peer and selfassessment.

Observation,
conferencing and
product analysis
Teacher, peer and selfassessment.
Observation and
product analysis

1 lesson

Cells are the basic units

of living things and have
specialised structures and
functions (ACSSU149)

25%

Students will make models

(approx. 30 cm wide) of
animal, plant and fungal
cells

Cells are the basic units

of living things and have
specialised structures and
functions (ACSSU149)

25%

Students will have a test

seeing what they have
learn

Cells are the basic units

of living things and have
specialised structures and
functions (ACSSU149)

25%

Students will do a
Teacher assessment.
laboratory to put all the
Observation and
theory they have learnt into product analysis
practice

End of
lesson 10

Teacher assessment by
Product analysis

20 minutes
and
homework
time to
prepare

2 lessons

Start of
lesson 18

3 lessons and End of

homework
lesson 12
time

describing mitosis as cell

division for growth and
repair)
Poster (recognising the
role of knowledge of cells
and cell divisions in the
area of disease treatment
and control)

Cells are the basic units

of living things and have
specialised structures and
functions (ACSSU149)
People use understanding
and skills from across the
disciplines of science in
their
occupations (ACSHE227)

25%

Students will make a poster

about how cell division is
involved in disease
treatments

Teacher, peer and selfassessment.

Observation and
product analysis

3 lessons and End of

homework
Lesson 20