Grade 06 Science - EC: S6.B.1.1.3
Grade 06 Science - EC: S6.B.1.1.3
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
6th Grade
Course, Subject
Science
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Define unicellular.
- When does a single celled organism divide into two new cells?
- What is a prokaryote?
- Explain the reproduction of a bacterium cell. How does the parent cell compare to its offspring?
- Pick two unicellular organisms. Describe how these organisms make or obtain nutrition.
- Compare and contrast amoeba and paramecium, including life processes such as locomotion and reproduction.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Unicellular means one single cell.
- A single celled organism divides into two when it becomes too large.
- A prokaryote is a unicellular organism with few internal structures.
- A bacterium cell undergoes asexual reproduction. The cell splits into two offspring cells of the same size and each offspring’s traits are identical to the parent cell.
- Acceptable responses must include, but are not limited to:
- Identification of two unicellular organisms and how they make/obtain food.
Sample response: Euglena contain chloroplasts and make food through photosynthesis, like plants. Amoebas engulf their food, feeding off of bacteria and other protozoans.
- Acceptable responses must include, but are not limited to:
- Both
- Unicellular organisms
- Heterotrophs
- Water-dwelling organisms
- Amoebas
- Locomotion performed using pseudopods
- Usually has one nucleus
- Feeds due to phagocytosis
- Asexual reproduction
- Changing body shape
- Paramecium
- Locomotion performed using cilia
- May have more than one nuclei
- Uses cilia to sweep in food
- Sexual reproduction
- Definite body shape