Identify cell organelles, explain how the structure of an organelle determines its function, and summarize how organelles work together to carry out the functions of the cell.

How do cells keep us alive? Through reading and hands-on activities, students learn about parts of a cell, and their functions in carrying out processes for life. Study skills are taught and modeled as students make entries in science notebooks.

Students learn the function of the liver and how biomedical engineers can use liver regeneration to help people. Students test the effects of toxic chemicals on a beef liver by adding hydrogen peroxide to various liver and salt solutions. They observe, record and graph their results.

Students will create cards and play a matching game to identify the structure and function of the organelles of an eukaryotic cell. This is recommended as a reinforcement activity at the conclusion of a unit on cells. Instruction and resources to complete a webquest on the Cells Alive! website are also provided.