This interactive whiteboard lesson is in three parts.

Part one:

What are cells like? - one graphic and two animations are used to explore the structure of a typical plant and animal cell.

Part two and three:

What do cells do? - one graphic and three animations are used to explore the range of functions that different cells have and the ways that cells are specialised to do particular jobs.

This lesson allows students to learn from diagrams and animations, and to benefit from committing to their own ideas by making choices.