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Working on my "Cellular Job Fair" Unit Plan.

Grade Level 6 wh Unit topic: Cells

Standards - Living organisms and their life processes.

Tool(s) - Visual Ranking tools: Students will really reflect on the jobs of organelles and rank them by their importance to an organism/living thing.

Essential Question Ideas: How do living things survive? What is the science behind survival? How are niches interconnected?

Visual Ranking Tool Thoughts.... However, I would love any suggestions you might have
 * Prompt: When thinking about the function of each organelle rank the one that you feel is the most important to the cell.
 * Cell Wall, Cytoplasm, Mitochondria, Vacuole, Chlorophyll, Chloroplasts, Nucleus, Nuclear Membrane, Nucleolus, Ribosomes, Cell Membrane

Seeing Reason Tool.... I don't feel that this would work for my unit, but here are a few ideas I have for future use.....
 * character education activities - brainstorming the cause and effect for common teen issues and how they relate to each other. Looking for action/reaction relationships.- what a great idea! I would like to share that with our school counselors
 * Locating "conflicts and resolutions" with in a graphic novel. To help students make further connections between their characters and looking for a deeper mean being shared in the story.