Unit 1 - Life Functions, Cells, and Cell Processes

Can You Tell the Organelle? Webquest

Vocabulary Flash Cards

Cool Websites:

Encyclopedia of Life: 
cool site that is working to identify and categorize all life on Earth; search your favorite life forms or find interesting new ones eol.org/

IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) Red List: website that keeps track of threatened, endangered and extinct species worldwide. www.iucnredlist.org/

Videos: 

Flu Virus Animation

Monty Python Scientific Method

Crash Course - Eukaryopolis: The City of Animal Cells

Crash Course - Plant Cells

Khan Academy - Parts of a Cell

Cilia and Flagella 

Osmosis: a solute & solvent love story

Diffusion and Osmosis

Osmosis Egg Experiment (Sci Guys)

Cells Alive! - this website has images of various cells, shows realtime growth of cancer cells and bacteria cells, has animations of cell processes and more!  www.cellsalive.com/

The Virtual Cell We will use this website in class to take a tour of the cell

HHMI "The Inner Life of the Cell" Amazing computer animation of the inner workings of a cell. Narrated.


Model Project Guidelines (click here)
Metaphor Collage Guidelines (click here)

 

Amoeba eating paramecium: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvOz4V699gk
 

Paramecium feeding (also shows contractile vacuoles): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4aZE5FQ284