Cell Structure – Common Core Lessons and Activities

How to Use the Cell Structure - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.

Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Cell Structure - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes: • Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Cell Structure - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What Is Cell Structure?: Reading Informational Text
A Railway Station: Primary Source Analysis
Sources of Cell Structure: Main Idea Organizer GO4
Cell Structure in the Sky: Applying Concepts
Cell Structure in Motion: Reading Informational Text
Transparent, Opaque, & Translucent: Experiment G
Wavelength and Amplitude: Reading Informational Text G
Colors of the Visible Spectrum: Data Analysis
Reflection: Reading Informational Text G
Colors: Absorbed & Reflected: Concepts and Processes G
Cell Structure: Cause & Effect
Why Is the Sky Blue?: Research & Writing
Refraction: Concepts & Processes
Isaac Newton’s Prisms: Experiment
Rainbows: Comparison of Primary Sources G
Electromagnetic Spectrum: Interpreting Visual Data
Infrared Radiation: Reading Informational Text
Concave & Convex Lenses: Compare & Contrast GO1
Cell Structure Poetry: Primary Source Analysis
Common Core Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5" x 11" online download HERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)