Standard #: SC.912.L.16.14


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Describe the cell cycle, including the process of mitosis. Explain the role of mitosis in the formation of new cells and its importance in maintaining chromosome number during asexual reproduction.


General Information

Subject Area: Science
Grade: 912
Body of Knowledge: Life Science
Standard: Heredity and Reproduction -

A. DNA stores and transmits genetic information. Genes are sets of instructions encoded in the structure of DNA.

B. Genetic information is passed from generation to generation by DNA in all organisms and accounts for similarities in related individuals.

C. Manipulation of DNA in organisms has led to commercial production of biological molecules on a large scale and genetically modified organisms.

D. Reproduction is characteristic of living things and is essential for the survival of species.

Date Adopted or Revised: 02/08
Content Complexity Rating: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts - More Information
Date of Last Rating: 05/08
Status: State Board Approved

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Related Access Points

Access Point Number Access Point Title
SC.912.L.16.In.7 Recognize that cells reproduce by dividing to produce new cells that are identical (mitosis) or new cells that are different (meiosis).
SC.912.L.16.Su.6 Recognize that cells reproduce by dividing.
SC.912.L.16.Pa.6 Recognize that living things produce offspring (reproduce).


Related Resources

Educational Game

Name Description
Cell Cycle for 500, Alex - Cell Cycle Jeopardy Template

This interactive website provides challenging questions for students to work cooperatively as they review for formative or summative assessments. The questions provide scaffolding as they progress in order from factual recall to inference.This activity addresses several standards including meiosis, mitosis, gamete/spore formation and independent assortment.

Lesson Plans

Name Description
Illustration of the Cell Cycle: Using Printmaking Techniques to Design the Phases of the Cell Cycle

Through use of arts integration and the 5E Lesson Model, students will use printmaking techniques to design and illustrate the cell cycle.

Getting Tangled with Yarn and the Cell Cycle

Students will use different yarn colors to illustrate the cell cycle, including interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis.

Then, they will present their assignments in front of the class and complete a post-lesson worksheet.

Making Mitosis with Yarn

Students will model stages of mitosis and meiosis using yarn. By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to recognize the difference between mitosis and meiosis, know what type of cells are produced from mitosis and meiosis, and how many new cells are created at the end of each process.

This lesson is designed for student with mild/moderate disabilities enrolled in an Access class or in the inclusion classroom with assistance from the support facilitation teacher or possibly an Advanced Placement Biology student.

Modeling Mitosis

During this lesson, students will watch animated videos to provide a visual representation of the different phases of mitosis to reinforce the essential content being taught. Students will model the process of mitosis to demonstrate that cells repeatedly divide for growth and repair and daughter cells are identical to the parent cell.

Cell Cycle Picture Book

After reading the sections and/or chapter on the concept of the cell cycle, including mitosis, the students will be guided through the process of making a picture book. This picture book will enhance the students' knowledge of what occurs within the cell structures as it moves through all the stages of the cell cycle. This book will then be shared with other students and/or the teacher to demonstrate that each student can accurately describe the process of the cell cycle.

The Cell Cycle

In this lesson students will explore the cell cycle and cell division. They will utilize Power Point presentations, videos and interactive animations to answer questions pertaining to the importance of mitosis and cell growth. To reinforce skills and concepts, students will do a flip chart activity.

Drawing the Cell Cycle Using Onion Root Tips

In this lesson students will observe onion root tips under a microscope, count the number of cells they find in each stage of the cell cycle, and then use this information to draw a pie graph that will predict the percentage of time spent in each stage.

Mitosis and Meiosis Pipe Cleaner Simulation: Crossing Over and Independent Assortment

This lesson requires the students to simulate the movement of chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis using different-colored pipe cleaners. The pipe cleaners allow the instructor to highlight both recombination (crossing over) and independent assortment, two important components of meiotic cell division. The processes that create variation among gametes are also emphasized.

This lesson plan includes excellent teacher support in the form of videos that explain how the pipe cleaners should be manipulated to demonstrate the concepts of mitosis, meiosis, and independent assortment.

Cells on Stage The lesson addresses the phases of the cell cycle and mitosis through live acting
From Cell to DNA The goal of this lesson is to introduce students to the human cell and its DNA as the genetic information that governs how the cell will function.

Original Student Tutorials

Name Description
The Cell Cycle and Mitosis

Follow the life of a cell in the tightly controlled process called the cell cycle! In this interactive tutorial, you will learn how a single cell gives rise to two identical daughter cells during the cell cycle and mitosis.

Mitosis and Cell Division

Explore the steps of mitosis and cell division in this interactive tutorial, and see how they result in the separation of a cell's genetic material and division of its contents into two identical daughter cells. 

Perspectives Video: Teaching Ideas

Name Description
Karyotyping

In this table-top karyotyping activity, students group chromosomes, identify abnormalities, and then research the resulting genetic disorder.

Download the CPALMS Perspectives video student note taking guide.

Tabletop Mitosis

Is that your tosis? No, it's mitosis! Listen to this teacher describe a fun, interactive simulation that will help students understand mitosis and the cell cycle.

Download the CPALMS Perspectives video student note taking guide.

Teaching Idea

Name Description
Fish and Onions, Can You Dig It?

This resource provides microscope photos of fish and onion cells and allows students to identify the phase of mitosis shown in each photograph.

Text Resource

Name Description
Cell Cycle and Cell Division

This informational text resource is intended to support reading in the content area. The phases of the cell cycle are described, along with scientists' methods of studying the process. The proteins and cyclins involved in cell division are explained as well. The text ends by exploring future opportunities for discovery in this field.

Video/Audio/Animations

Name Description
Video: Mitosis This is a brief video that can be used in a 7th grade classroom to demonstrate the process of mitosis. It could be used repeatedly to reinforce the stages as this is typically a difficult concept for middle school age students to comprehend.
Cell Division and the Cell Cycle This dramatic video choreographed to powerful music introduces the viewer/student to the wonder and miracle of the cell division and cell cycle. It is designed as a motivational "trailer" to be shown by Biology, Biochemistry and Life Science teachers in middle and high school.
Photosynthesis animation and other cell processes in animation This site has fantastic short Flash animations of intricate cell processes, including photosynthesis and the electron transport chain.

Virtual Manipulatives

Name Description
Centre of the Cell: Mitosis Interactive

In this interactive, students order stages of mitosis. Each stage is represented by a short video of a real cell undergoing that phase of mitosis and a short description of the events. Students order the videos to create a short video of mitosis.

Mitosis This website provides an interactive demonstration of a cell going through the different stages of mitosis. You can progress through each stage at your own pace, or watch as the process unfolds before your eyes. The demonstration also has a description of what happens in each phase of mitosis, from interphase through cytokenesis.

Student Resources

Original Student Tutorials

Name Description
The Cell Cycle and Mitosis:

Follow the life of a cell in the tightly controlled process called the cell cycle! In this interactive tutorial, you will learn how a single cell gives rise to two identical daughter cells during the cell cycle and mitosis.

Mitosis and Cell Division:

Explore the steps of mitosis and cell division in this interactive tutorial, and see how they result in the separation of a cell's genetic material and division of its contents into two identical daughter cells. 

Video/Audio/Animation

Name Description
Photosynthesis animation and other cell processes in animation: This site has fantastic short Flash animations of intricate cell processes, including photosynthesis and the electron transport chain.


Parent Resources

Perspectives Video: Teaching Ideas

Name Description
Karyotyping :

In this table-top karyotyping activity, students group chromosomes, identify abnormalities, and then research the resulting genetic disorder.

Download the CPALMS Perspectives video student note taking guide.

Tabletop Mitosis:

Is that your tosis? No, it's mitosis! Listen to this teacher describe a fun, interactive simulation that will help students understand mitosis and the cell cycle.

Download the CPALMS Perspectives video student note taking guide.



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