SC15.7.1
Engage in argument from evidence to support claims of the cell theory.
Engage in argument from evidence to support claims of the cell theory.
Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Crosscutting Concepts
Knowledge
- The presence or absence of cells in living and nonliving things.
- The presence of cells in a variety of organisms, including unicellular and multicellular organisms.
- Different types of cells within one multicellular organism.
- Cells only arise from preexisting cells by division.
- The cell is the structural and functional unit of all living things.
Skills
- Make a claim about a given explanation or model for a phenomenon, including the cell theory .
- Identify and describe the given evidence that supports the claim.
- Evaluate the evidence and identify its strengths and weaknesses.
- Use reasoning to connect the necessary and sufficient evidence and construct the argument.
- Present oral or written arguments to support or refute the given explanation or model for the phenomenon.
Understanding
- The three components of the cell theory:
- All life forms are made from one or more cells.
- Cells only arise from pre-existing cells.
- The cell is the smallest unit of life.
Vocabulary
- Cell
- Cell theory
- Unicellular
- Multicellular
- Living
- Non-living
- Organism
- Evidence
- Scientific argument
- Claims