Cells

Aims & Learning Outcomes

Pupils should gain an understanding of:

• How animals and plants are made up of cells;
• The function of the cell membrane, cytoplastm and nucleus in plant and animal cells;
• The function of chloroplasts and cell walls in plant cells;
• The ways in which some cells including cilated epithelial cells, sperm, ova, palisade cells and root hair cells, are adapted to their functions.
• The fact that all living things are made up of cells;
• How cells can grow and multiply if they have oxygen, water and nutrients;
• How a microscope lets us see that most cells have a nucleus, cytoplasm, and a cell membrane;
• There are different types of cell designed to do different jobs;
• Plants have a cell wall made of tough fibres, and chloroplasts to make sugars.