Middle School

Cell City

The main focus of the Cell City project is to help students understand all the different functions of the cell organelles. We created a worksheet that will help us in achieving that goal. The worksheet requires the students to define all the different cell organelles and match them with a diagram with city infrastructures depending on the functions that infrastructure provides.To access the cell city worksheet please click here.

California State Standards: 7th Grade 1A - 1E

Cell
Dissection

In this project, we prioritize that student knows the core differences between an animal cell and a plant cell. The students will be answering questions about the differences in animal and plant cells. We will also be creating a gelatin model for the students to have a hands-on activity where they will be putting in pieces of candy into the model so they know where all the cell organelles are in an animal or plant cell. To access the cell dissection worksheet please click this link.

California State Standards: 7th Grade 1A-1D

Mouse Track Car

The purpose of the mouse trap car project is for the students to understand how the car works using physics concepts. As the students are building the cars, they will be taught what certain parts do. The mouse trap car worksheet will test the students on certain concepts. The class mainly tests students on ideas about acceleration, deceleration, forces, and Newton’s Second Law of Motion. Mouse Trap Car Worksheet is located here.

California State Standards: 8th grade MS-PS2-2