1. Cells and Microorganisms
Wonder Wall: What questions do you have about cells and microorganisms?
Lesson 1
Cells
and
Microorganisms 1

2. Do You Know the Differences Between a Plant and an Animal Cell?
Discuss this with a neighbor and be prepared to share your answers with the class.
Why do you need to know this? See next slide… 

3. Georgia Performance Standards
S5L3. Students will diagram and label parts of various cells (plant, animal, single-celled, multi-celled).
a. Use magnifiers such as microscopes or hand lenses to observe cells and their structure.
b. Identify parts of a plant cell (membrane, wall, cytoplasm, nucleus, chloroplasts) and of an animal cell (membrane, cytoplasm, and nucleus) and determine the function of the parts.
c. Explain how cells in multi-celled organisms are similar and different in structure and function to single-celled organisms.
S5L4. Students will relate how microorganisms benefit or harm larger organisms.
a. Identify beneficial microorganisms and explain why they are beneficial.
b. Identify harmful microorganisms and explain why they are harmful.

4. Are we like plants? How are plant cells and animal cells alike?
Did you know that you and oak trees are both made of cells? A cell is a tiny part of a living thing.
Are we like plants? How are plant cells and animal cells alike?
Plant cells have more parts than an animal cells
BUT- both kinds of cells take in nutrients and get rid of wastes.
Reading Connection: What kind of text structure would best represent the information?
Let’s look at a plant cell up close!

5. Cell Form and Function

6. Plant Cell
The plant cell is surrounded by a cell wall. This stiff wall protects the cell.
Why do you think plants need stiff walls?
Just inside the cell wall is the cell membrane
This thin membrane allows water and nutrients to pass into the cell.
It allows wastes, including oxygen, to pass out of the cell.
The cell membrane stops some materials from entering the cell and injuring it.
Look at the next slide for an illustration.

7. Plant Cell Nucleus Cell membrane Cell wall Cytoplasm Chloroplast
Vacuole
The nucleus controls the cell’s growth. The plant’s genes are stored here.
Cell membrane
Cell wall
Cytoplasm
The rest of the plant cell is filled with cytoplasm, which is much like jelly. Much of the cell’s work takes place here.
Chloroplast
Green chloroplasts produce food for the plant. The chloroplasts combine sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide from the air to produce sugars, which give the plant energy to grow and bloom. 7

8. Plant Cells Plant Cell- Can you identify the parts? ???:
Located near the center of the cell – the plant’s genes are located here
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Stores food, water, or wastes
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Jelly-like substance that fills cell
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Thin membrane allows water and nutrients to pass into the cell and allows wastes, including oxygen, to pass out of the cell
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Produces food for the plant
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Protects and supports the plant 2

9. Do plant and animal cells have the same parts?
Cell membrane – has same job in both cells
Also protects the cell from harmful substances.
The nucleus controls the cell’s growth and contains genes.
The nucleus is surrounded by cytoplasm
What is cytoplasm?
See next slide for an illustration

10. Animal Cell Cytoplasm: Jellylike substance that fills the cell
Why don’t animal cells have cell walls?
With no cell walls, animal cells can take different shapes and can develop in different ways
Animal cells can become nerve cells, muscle cells, blood cells, and so on. Having different kinds of cells has allowed animals to develop muscles, bones, and nerves have given animals the ability to move from place to place.
Cytoplasm:
Jellylike substance that fills the cell
Nucleus:
Controls the cell’s growth and contains its genes
Cell membrane:
Allows materials to move in and out of the cell and protects cell from harmful substances

11. Animals Cells Animal Cell- CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE PARTS? ???:
Muscle cells
Bone cells
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Jellylike substance that fills the cell
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Controls the cell’s growth and contains its genes
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Allows materials to move in and out of the cell and protects cell from harmful substances
Liver cells 11

12. Cells
cell structure

13. Reading connection: What clue words let you know that the author is showing you a contrast (differences) in the two cells?
F.Y.I.
The illustrations below show some of the shapes that animal cells can take. On the other hand, most plant cells have square shapes. Their stiff cell walls prevent that shape from changing. However, the cell walls do serve as the plant’s “skeleton”. They support the plant.
Animal cells do not have chloroplasts. Animals cannot produce their own food, so they don’t need them! They must get their energy by eating plants, other animals, or both. Animals must depend on plants and animals that they eat to survive.
Animal cells tend to be smaller than plant cells. However, you will need a microscope to see either one. The largest plant cell is only about 100 micrometers wide. A micrometer is 1/1,000,000 meter (1/25,000 inch). That’s tiny!
muscle cells
bone cells
Liver cells
fat cells

14. Animal Cell - Functions
Let’s summarize:
Animal Cell - Functions
Nucleus
control center of the cell – stores information for cell functions
Cytoplasm
jelly-like substance where cell activities take place
Cell membrane
thin, controls the substances that enter or exit the cells

15. Plant Cell - Functions Let’s summarize: Nucleus
control center of the cell – stores information for cell functions
Chloroplasts
contain green pigment chlorophyll, needed in photosynthesis
Cytoplasm
jelly-like, where cell activities take place
Cell membrane
thin, controls the substances that enter or exit the cells
Cell wall
stiff wall which gives plant cells their shape

16. What are the Differences Between Plant Cells and Animal Cells
What are the Differences Between Plant Cells and Animal Cells? Tell your neighbor.
Plant Cell
Animal Cell
Plant cells contain chloroplasts to make food from solar energy during photosynthesis.
Animal cells DO NOT contain chloroplasts.
Plant cells contain cell
walls.
Animal cells DO NOT have cell walls.

17. A. Review Question 1 Which of these is NOT made of cells? A. a rock
B. an ant
C. moss
D. a stick A.

18. B. Review Question 2 Which part is NOT found in an animal cell?
A. cytoplasm
B. Cell wall
C. Cell membrane
D. nucleus B.

19. C. Review Question 3 Which statement is true?
A. The nucleus gives the cell its shape.
B. Plant cells are filled with jelly-like chloroplasts.
C. An animal cell can become a bone cell.
D. A plant cell can become a nerve cell. C.

20. B. Review Question 4 Which statement is true?
A. The cell wall allows materials to pass in and out of cells.
B. Both plant and animal cells have a cell membrane.
C. The genes for plant cells are in the cytoplasm.
D. A plant cell produces food in its nucleus. B.

21. Lesson 2: Single Celled and Multi-Celled Organisms
Both plants and animals-made of one cell or millions of cells like you.
One-celled organisms are different…
Some one-celled creatures have a nucleus; some don’t. Some single-celled plants have chloroplasts, but do not have stiff cell walls.
All single-celled organisms eat, get rid of wastes, and reproduce.

22. Single Celled and Multi-Celled Organisms

23. Single Celled and Multi-Celled Organisms
Amoebas
Fox News Video Clip Brain Eating Amoeba Causes Death
Amoebas are single-celled or one-celled organisms.
Check out these amoebas eating!
Cytoplasm
Amoebas are a kind of animal. They live just about anywhere! You can find them in pond water, saltwater, moist soil, and in animals… including you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Notice that their cell structure is a lot like yours.
The amoeba “breathes” when oxygen passes through the cell membrane into the cytoplasm.
Carbon Dioxide passes out of the amoeba through the same membrane. This cell “eats” by surrounding a bit of food, such as bacteria, and sweeping it inside.

24. Single Celled and Multi-Celled Organisms
Algae
Algae are like plants.
They live in the water and other moist places. Some algae have only one cell.
That includes the billions of algae that float on the surface of the ocean.
Seaweed is a form of algae that has many cells. Some seaweed stretches 100 meters (300 ft) from the ocean floor to the surface.
Algae are among the oldest living things on Earth. They have a cell membrane, cytoplasm, and a nucleus. They are not surrounded by a stiff cell wall, but they do contain chloroplasts to make food for themselves. Algae produces much of the oxygen in the air you breathe. In fact, algae produces more oxygen than all the other plants combined.

25. Single Celled and Multi-Celled Organisms
Algae
They have a cell membrane, cytoplasm, and a nucleus.
They are not surrounded by a stiff cell wall, but they do contain chloroplasts to make food for themselves.
Algae produces much of the oxygen in the air you breathe.
In fact, algae produces more oxygen than all the other plants combined.

26. Single Celled and Multi-Celled Organisms
Bacteria
Bacteria are one-celled organisms.
We did not even realize that they exist until the microscope was invented in the 1600s.
There are more bacteria than any other kind of living thing.
A handful of soil can contain billions of bacteria.
Bacteria have NO nucleus.
The material that is in the nucleus of other cells is spread throughout the cytoplasm in bacteria.

27. Bacteria They are the oldest form of life on Earth.
They live EVERYWHERE on Earth from the Arctic to the bottom of the ocean.
Some bacteria are helpful and some are harmful.
You’ll learn more about the different types of bacteria in the next slides.
Bacteria

28. Review Question 1 A Which part does an amoeba NOT have? chloroplasts
cell membrane
cytoplasm
nucleus A

29. Review Question 2
Which of these produces most of the oxygen on Earth?
amoebas
bacteria
Algae
Multi-celled plants C

30. Review Question 3
How are single-celled algae different from multi-celled plants?
These algae do not have stiff cell wall.
These algae have no chloroplasts.
These algae have a nucleus.
These algae have a cell membrane. A

31. Review Question 4
How do you know that bacteria can reproduce easily?
They have no nucleus.
They number in the billions.
We need a microscope to see them.
They come in many shapes and sizes. B

32. Discuss these with a neighbor.
Let’s Review!
What are cells?
Plant vs. Animal
Single-Celled and Multi-Celled Organisms
Discuss these with a neighbor.
Are there more single-celled (or one-celled) organisms or multi-celled organisms? What are we???
Discuss types of single-celled organisms we have learned about.

33. Lesson 3: Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
A microorganism is a living thing that is too small to see without a microscope.
What else is too small to be seen without a microscope?
Microorganisms include amoebas, algae, bacteria, and other tiny organisms. Do you remember the importance of bacteria and algae and why they are known for?
Some microorganisms help, while others can make animals and plants sick.
Can you figure out why???

34. Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Harmful Microorganisms
Salmonella
E. coli
Staph
Some harmful bacteria, such as Salmonella and E. coli, can make you very sick.
These bacteria are found on raw chicken and other meat, raw eggs, and other foods. If foods with bacteria on them touch other foods, such as lettuce, the bacteria can spread to the lettuce.
Cooking kills these bacteria.
However, if cooked food is left out of the refrigerator for 2 hours or longer, harmful bacteria will start to grow on it. 34

35. Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Harmful Microorganisms
Salmonella
E. coli
Staph
You probably have staph bacteria on your skin right now!
It can cause serious infections of the blood, bones, and lungs.
Have you ever had Strep throat?
It was caused by strep bacteria and can lead to serious diseases.
Strep Bacteria can harm newborn babies, pregnant women, older adults, and adults who have certain other illnesses. 35

36. Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Harmful Microorganisms
A virus is another microorganism that causes diseases.
Even smaller than bacteria
It must use a living cell to grow and reproduce.
Viruses cause many diseases, from colds to AIDS.
Viruses often change as they reproduce.
A medicine that killed the first virus often cannot kill the changed virus.
Vomiting
Virus
AIDS Virus
Cold
Virus

37. Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Harmful Microorganisms
Bakers yeast
A fungus is a microorganism (the plural of fungus is fungi)
Like plants, fungi cannot move around
Like animals, fungi cannot make their own food
They get their energy by eating other living or dead organisms.

38. Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Harmful Microorganisms
Bakers yeast
Kinds of fungi include molds, yeasts, and mushrooms.
Some kinds of fungi, such as yeast, contain only one cell. Others, such as mushrooms, are multi-celled.
You have probably seen mold growing on food.
Each bit of mold is very small, but when mold grows in large groups, you can see it.

39. Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Harmful Microorganisms
Harmful mold and other fungi can spread through crops and kill them.
They can also rot food and wood.
Fungi cause several skin diseases-including athlete’s foot and ring worm (which is not really caused by a worm). 10

40. Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Harmful Microorganisms
What does algae give us, and why is it important?
Even algae can be harmful. “Red tide” in a lake or ocean is caused by a kind of algae that grows very fast (has nothing to do with tides, though)
Some algae in a red tide contain poison that can kill fish. 10

41. Harmful Microorganisms

42. Helpful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful Microorganisms
We CANNOT LIVE without microorganisms.
Without the algae and other tiny plants floating in the ocean, we would not have enough oxygen to stay alive.
Tell your neighbor why… 11

43. Helpful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful Microorganisms
Algae and other plankton (microscopic plants and animals) float on the surface of the ocean.
Tiny fish eat the plankton. Then larger fish eat the tiny fish.
In time, people eat the larger fish. So… an important food source- fish – depends on microorganisms! Get it?
Review some helpful microorganisms with your neighbor.
How can you use context clues to help you with an unfamiliar word on this slide? 12

44. Helpful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful Microorganisms
Microorganisms also help plants grow on land.
Certain fungi help plants take up nutrients from the soil.
Without these nutrients, the plants would not grow as well.
That would mean less food for us and other animals.
HOW? 13

45. Helpful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful Microorganisms
More Than Just Dirt! There are over four billion microorganisms in a teaspoon of healthy soil. 13

46. Helpful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful Microorganisms
Microorganisms help provide us with other kinds of food.
Bacteria turn milk into yogurt.
In fact, one gram of yogurt can contain up to 1 billion bacteria. (It’s supposed to!)
Bacteria also help produce certain kinds of cheese. Yeast makes bread, rolls, and cakes rise. 14

47. Helpful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful Microorganisms
Certain bacteria in our bodies helps digest our food.
Drug companies began producing penicillin in 1943, but only four years later, bacteria appeared that could resist it (fight it off). New bacteria that can resist penicillin are still appearing. Scary, huh?
Some medicines such as penicillin (which is made from mold) and Streptomycin (which is made from bacteria), help treat or cure many diseases.

48. Helpful Microorganisms
Helpful and Harmful Microorganisms
Helpful Microorganisms
Microorganisms make dead things decay.
Without them, the Earth would be covered with a very thick layer of dead plants and animals. YUK!
Rotting wood
Without microorganisms, we would have trouble eating any food.
Certain bacteria in our bodies help digest food.
Our survival depends on the helpful microorganisms in and around us!
Discuss the many ways that we depend on helpful microorganisms with a neighbor.

49. Helpful Microorganisms

50. Getting Dirty with Microorganisms
Some microorganisms help remove harmful wastes from sewage at water treatment plants.
Others help clean up oil spills.

51. B Review Question 1 How can mold be helpful?
It grows on bread and other food.
It helps dead plants decay.
It is a kind of fungus.
It grows on wheat plants. B

52. A Review Question 2 Which statement is true?
Microorganisms cause disease.
Microorganisms cure disease.
Some microorganisms are eaten.
Microorganisms are rare. A

53. A Review Question 3 Why are bacteria grouped with microorganisms?
Both cause diseases.
Both cure diseases.
Both are single-celled.
Both are harmful. A

54. D Review Question 4 How can you avoid touching microorganism?
Make sure your meat is well cooked.
Wash your hands thoroughly many times a day.
Do not touch any soil.
You can’t avoid touching microorganisms. D