AC9S8U01 Year 8 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 Science provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

recognise cells as the basic units of living things, compare plant and animal cells, and describe the functions of specialised cell structures and organelles

Elaborations

• 1 exploring an augmented or virtual reality tour of a plant or animal to ‘zoom in’ and understand the scale of cells
• 2 identifying the structure and function of organelles in cells including the nucleus, cell membrane, cell wall, cytoplasm, chloroplasts and vacuoles
• 3 examining a variety of cells, including single-celled organisms, using a light microscope, a digital microscope, simulations and photomicrographs
• 4 comparing the similarities and differences of plant cells and animal cells visible with a light microscope and represented in a digital or physical model
• 5 designing a physical or digital model of a cell and explaining how the representation models the cell
• 6 considering how the invention of the microscope has contributed to understanding of cell structure

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