Creative Project Lesson

Mitosis

Science

Grade 7

Standards

  • GLE 0707.1.4 Illustrate how cell division occurs in sequential stages to maintain the chromosome number of a species.
  • SPI 0707.1.4 Sequence a series of diagrams that depict chromosome movement during plant cell division

Materials

  • Copy of Mitosis Skit
  • Bookmarked pages of student Mitosis Projects (Songs,Skits, etc) found on-line, TeacherTube.com is an excellent resource
  • Creative Project Rubric

Procedures

  • Let each student take part in the mitosis skit (may require many groups of 3)
  • Show students many Student created Mitosis Projects that can be found on-line
  • Students Create and Present Creative Projects

Resources

Mitosis Skit

Procedure: Prepare the students for the presentation and ask them to relate the presentation to phases of mitosis. The story can be presented in various ways such as a skit, puppets, drawings or paper cut outs on the overhead.

The Mitosis Story by Chia-Robert Ho
1. In this story, the setting is a pro-wrestling ring and the characters are the pro-wrestlers and a little girl.
2. At the beginning, someone has to enter (INTERPHASE) the ring for the match to start.
3. Now, we know that all pro-wrestlers (PROPHASE) like to put on some sort of an outfit. In this match, our pro-wrestlers dress up like a big X (a condensed chromosome).
4. After the first X-like pro-wrestler appears, it magically replicates. Now, we have two identical X-shaped pro-wrestler in the ring. These two wrestlers face each other in the middle (METAPHASE) of the ring and sets up the stage for a fight.
5. As the 2 wrestler are ready to fight a little girl named Ana came running into the ring to stop the fight (ANAPHASE). She had learned that civilized people should not fight; so, she intends on breaking up the fight. Ana brought out several lengths of cords and roped them around the wrestlers and start pulling them apart.
6. After a bit of struggle, she pulled the X-shaped wrestlers apart. She is pretty happy about what she did and she called her mom to tell her about what she did. Now everyone knows that a telephone (TELOPHASE) looks like - Two circles connect in the center (draw this on the board for the students).
7. After the phone call, Ana is really tired and she wants to go home. She got on her bicycle (CYTOKINESIS) and rode home (the 2 wheels of the bicycle is apart. like the new divided cells).