Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 368

Cells need to be continuously replaced. Mitosis is crucial to this process.  Mitosis is the reason we can grow, heal wounds, and replace damaged cells. Mitosis is also important in organisms which reproduce asexually: this is the only way that these cells can reproduce.  Students struggle to understand a concept that they cannot see.  With eh help of the model, students were able to ask questions about specific phases of the process of mitosis.  Students could indicate to each other exactly which phase they were looking at.  Using the microscope to observe mitosis allowed students to see real-life mitosis, to see details that the natural eye cannot see.  Much of the students’ understanding of the mitosis process came from visualizing the process using the microscope and slides.