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Getting Nerdy® Science—Cells: Unit Bundle

Downloadable resource

You’re ready to teach with this comprehensive bundle on cells. Engage your students with animated PowerPoints and 4–5 weeks of aligned lessons covering the following topics:

  • Needs and characteristics of living things
  • Cell theory
  • Robert Hooke and microscope usage
  • Levels of organization
  • Cell types and organelles
  • Cellular transport
  • Cellular energy needs
  • Cell reproduction

Unit bundle includes:

  • 170+ slide, fully editable PowerPoint with objectives, bell work, guided notes and animations.
  • 80+ PDF pages of aligned notes, labs, projects, activities, study guide and assessments.
  • A final assessment aligned with the notes and activities completed during the unit.


Correlation to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

Science & Engineering Practices

Asking questions and defining problems
Developing and using models
Planning and carrying out investigations
Analyzing and interpreting data
Using mathematics and computational thinking
Constructing explanations and designing solutions
Obtaining, evaluation, and communicating information

Disciplinary Core Ideas

MS-LS1.A: Structure and Function
MS-LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms
MS-LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms

Crosscutting Concepts

Cause and effect
Scale, proportion, and quantity
Systems and system models
Energy and matter
Structure and function
Stability and change

Performance Expectations

MS-LS1-1. Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells
MS-LS1-2. Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function.
MS-LS1-6. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.
MS-LS1-7. Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism