SNC2D Unit 2: Tissues, Organs and Systems

How do cells divide and specialize to build tissues, organs and systems? Students compare plant and animal cells under the microscope, model the cell cycle, count cells in each phase of mitosis and compare normal and cancerous division with original data. They study specialized cells and stem cells (including Toronto's Till and McCulloch), test plant tissues with celery and leaf peels, model digestion, measure heart and breathing rates, and dissect a flower alongside a free virtual frog. The unit closes with disease research, medical imaging, public health and an ethics debate.

Assessment of learning: a Systems Biology Issue Report with a rubric, plus a unit test with a worked answer key.

Lessons

1. Cells Up Close
2. Plant and Animal Cells Lab
3. The Cell Cycle
4. Mitosis Lab
5. When Cell Division Goes Wrong
6. Specialized Cells and Stem Cells
7. From Cells to Systems
8. Plant Tissues and Systems
9. The Digestive System
10. Circulation and Respiration
11. Systems Working Together
12. Dissection: Systems Inside an Organism
13. Disease Detectives
14. Seeing Inside the Body
15. Public Health
16. Ethics in Systems Biology

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, safety notes, look-fors and answer keys
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 17 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, lab sheets and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview, the summative task and rubric, and a unit test with a worked answer key

Built for the Ontario Grade 10 Science, Academic curriculum (SNC2D), and easy to adapt for any Grade 10 science class.