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Virus Structure (MS)

This lesson is designed around the following topics: virus structures and the question of whether viruses are living or not. Students are provided with thought provoking questions and meaningful activities to help students take ownership in their learning.

objectives

• Students will apply their knowledge of what makes an organism living or non.
• Students will evaluate the different structures of viruses and how they function.
• Students will construct the different virus structures and develop an understanding of viruses.

Topic(s)

Microbiology

type

Middle school lesson

6-8

Grade(s): 

time needed

120-180 minutes

author

Sarah Morin

national next gen standards

• MS-LS1-1 Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.
• MS-LS1-2 Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways the parts of cells contribute to the function.
• MS-LS1-3 Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.

north dakota standards

• MS-LS1-1 Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.
• MS-LS1-2 Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways the parts of cells contribute to the function.
• MS-LS1-3 Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.

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