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Cell Division PowerPoint

The whole of science is nothing more
than a refinement of everyday thinking

Albert Einstein

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Online Cell Division Resources
PowerPoint Template

 

You and your partner are going to create a PowerPoint slide show to show the processes of mitosis and meiosis.

Follow the steps carefully to make sure you have a good product!

  1. Use your textbook and the web resources at
    http://science-class.net/cell_division_ppt.htm
    to get a clear idea of what happens during cell division. 
    Refer to the book and website as needed while making the slide show.
  2. Open PowerPoint.
  3. Start a blank presentation.
  4. Begin with a Title slide:

  1. Title the slide "Cell Division" and put your names in the subtitle box. 
    See Slide Template.
  2. Insert a new slide. 
    Choose the Title slide layout again. 
    Put "Mitosis" in the title box. 
    Put the definition for mitosis in the subtitle box. 
    See Slide Template.
  3. Insert a new slide.  Choose the Title Only slide.

  1. Title this slide "Interphase." 
    See Slide Template.
  2. Make sure the Drawing toolbar is selected:

  1. Use the Draw Feature in PowerPoint
    to make a diagram of a cell in Interphase. 
    Include:
    1. Cell membrane
    2. Nucleus
    3. Chromosomes

  1. If you get a drawing canvas like this:

and you do not want it on the screen,  
go to Tools > Options >General and unclick 
automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes :

  1. Continue inserting new slides and drawing the phases of mitosis and meiosis by
    following the Slide Template.

SLIDE TEMPLATE

Animate the slides so the changes in the cells are shown.

 

Add effects to one cell drawing at a time.

Use good PowerPoint design for the background, fonts and slide transitions.  See handout for guidelines.

Cell Division Resources

The web is not a constant place; some of these links may be broken or dead.
If you cannot access a website, move on to the next one - you have several on each topic from which to choose.

Mitosis:

Labeled diagram:
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/mitosis.html

Interactive demonstration:
http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm

Animated gif:
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/multimedia/mitosis/mitosis_gif1.html

Animated gif with explanation:
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/multimedia/mitosis/mitosis_gif2.html

Overview of mitosis:
http://www.teaching-biomed.man.ac.uk/ramsay/Overv.htm

Meiosis :

Labeled diagram:
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/meiosis.html

Meiosis:
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/
faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookmeiosis.html

Individual diagrams:
http://taggart.glg.msu.edu/bs110/meiosis.htm

Animation:
http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/
notebook/courses/guide/movie/meiosis.htm

Diagrams:
http://biology.about.com/library/gallery/blmeiosisdiagram1.htm