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Biology - EC: BIO.A.3.2.2

Biology - EC: BIO.A.3.2.2

Continuum of Activities

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

  • Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
  • Questions/activities that grow in complexity
  • Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Activities

  1. Identify the energy rich molecule in the cell.

  2. When ATP drops off energy it is transformed into a low energy molecule known as ___________.
  1. When materials are moved from a low concentration to a high concentration, what energy rich molecule is used?

  2. If ATP was used by a cell and turned into ADP, what can a cell do to make more ATP?
  1. Muscle cells need a large amount of energy. What organelles would be in abundance in these muscle cells to meet their energy needs? Explain your answer.

  2. Although ATP is constantly be consumed in cellular processes, the ATP and ADP levels in the cell remain relatively constant. Explain why the level to ADP and ATP combined usually does not change.

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. ATP

  2. ADP
  1. ATP

  2. Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
  • The cell could perform respiration and add another phosphate molecule to the ADP molecule and turn it into the energy-rich molecule ATP.
  1. Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
  • Mitochondria would be needed in abundance because they are used to generate energy to help the cells within the muscles do their job.
  1. Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
  • The level of ADP and ATP in the body remains constant because ADP molecules can have one phosphate added and they become ATP molecules, when ATP drops off energy a phosphate is removed and it then becomes an ADP molecule.
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