2.+Planning+and+Preparation

= Planning = **a. Knowledge gaining:** Students will gain knowledge about eukaryotic cells by following the steps on the student page. On this page, students will watch a youtube video about plant cells and complete other fun activities. Students will post a comment on the classroom blog about something they learned from the youtube video. Students will also visit a website that contains an interactive plant cell. Students will learn about the organelles of a plant cell and their function within the cell by visiting these websites.

**b. Knowledge organizing:** Students will organize their data for the organelle presentation through the Google form that was created to store the information for the gallery day. Students will also use the discussion board to post their ideas for the tasty plant cell creation as a group.

**c. Knowledge sharing:** Students will share their knowledge in several ways throughout this unit. They will be able to read others' interesting facts on the classroom blog, and they will also be able to watch their peer's videos from their organelle presentations. We will also get to share our tasty plant cell creations in class, as well. Lastly, the plant cell models created by the students will be available on the wikipage for all to see once completed.

= Preparation = -Teacher will create a "resource document" forstudents on how to upload documents to the classroom wiki. -Teacher will need to rent flip video cameras to record the students' organelle presentation. -Teacher will need to create the groups of students for the tasty cell creation. -Teacher will create a take-home letter for parents about the upcoming unit and their optional assistance. -Teacher will need to establish a section on the classroom blog for the interesting video facts.