S1+Horne,Daniel+Patrick

=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= E3: Cells Grades 9-Diploma Students describe structure and functions of cells at the intercellular and molecular level including differentiation to form systems, interactions between cells, and their environment, and the impact of cellular processes and changes on individuals. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: Science and Technology - E. The Living Environment

//What understandings are desired?//
• Differentiation to form systems, interactions between cells and their environment • Impact of cellular processes and changes on individuals ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * • Structure and function of cells at intercellular and molecular levels

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• Why cells differentiate to form systems, interactions between cells and their environment? • How cells impact cells impact cellular processes and changes on individuals? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • How do cells interact at an intercellular and molecular level?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
• Informational material: DNA, proteins, amino acid, mitosis, meiosis • Functions: mitochondria, glucose, water, metabolism, energy, protection || • Express similarities/differences between different types of cells • Evaluate relationships among DNA, proteins, and amino acids • Design diagrams explaining mitosis and meiosis • Analyze how different factors effect cells • Role-play how certain biomolecules help cells perform • Reflect how all things that happen occur in cells ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * • Membranes: phospholipids, diffusion,cell junctions, osmosis


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**