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What Is Every Living Thing Actually Made Of? If you want to use the templates to help you record your work, download them now and print them out. They may not fit perfectly with every week, and you may need extra pages to record some answers, especially when you need to draw a diagram or graph. The Big Question This Week "If you had to build a living thing from scratch using only chemistry, where would you start?" Write this in your learning journal as a title before you begi

"If someone shrank you down to the size of a single cell, what do you think you'd actually see?"

This week, you will explore how scientists can study cells in detail using microscopes. You’ll discover the differences between light microscopes, which use lenses and visible light, and electron microscopes, which use beams of electrons to reveal far greater detail. You will also learn how to use the magnification formula to calculate the actual size of tiny structures, and why improvements in microscope technology have been so important for advancing our understanding of bi

This week you will be introduced to the building blocks of life: cells. You’ll learn the difference between the two main types of cells — eukaryotic cells (animal and plant cells, which contain a nucleus and specialised organelles) and prokaryotic cells (bacteria, which are smaller and simpler, with DNA free in the cytoplasm). You’ll explore the structures that cells share, as well as the unique features found only in plants or bacteria, and begin to understand how these tiny