Hands-on Activities to Teach Mitosis and the Cell Cycle

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Struggling to teach mitosis and the cell cycle to your middle school life science students? This interactive lesson filled with hands-on activities will provide you with everything you need to help your students understand the concept.

This lesson includes everything you need to take your students through a basic understanding of mitosis in a week.

✔ PowerPoint presentation

✔ Reading Passage

✔ Comprehension Questions

✔ “Mitosis Mat” – for hands-on, whole class and independent practice with examples

✔ Worksheets

✔ Mitosis Flipbook

✔ Teacher Instructions

The packet includes a variety of activities, allowing you to differentiate to the needs of your classroom – allow students more whole class or independent practice as needed.

Make a class set copy of the “Mitosis Mat,” laminate, and reuse class after class and year after year!

Teacher presentation is ready to go- start by reviewing the concepts, then walk students through examples using their “Mitosis Mat,” all with PowerPoint as your teaching guide.

The names of the steps in the cycle have been removed from all materials to help students concentrate on the process. Students will focus on the purpose and result of mitosis during the lesson, helping them to better understand the concept.

The worksheets and flipbook are perfect additions to an interactive notebook and can also be used as a check-for-understanding of the concept or a quick assessment.

Supports NGSS MS-LS3-2: Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation. Emphasis is on using models such as Punnett squares, diagrams, and simulations to describe the cause and effect relationship of gene transmission from parent(s) to offspring and resulting genetic variation.

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Mitosis and Meiosis Lesson Bundle

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