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| Welcome!! Welcome to our site all about cells! This is a site made just for fifth graders to help you learn about both plant cells and animal cells. This site will give you information about cells and an activity that will challenge you to explore even more about cells. Take a look at the information we have given you, read about the challenge, and begin to explore the other websites that we have given you as resources. Have fun! |
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What are cells anyway?
All of the living organisms on Earth are divided in pieces called cells. There are smaller pieces such as proteins and organelles. There are also larger pieces called systems and communities. Cells are small compartments that hold all of the biological equipment necessary to keep an organism alive and successful on Earth. A main purpose of a cell is to organize. Cells hold a variety of pieces and each cell has a different set of functions. It is easier for an organism to grow and survive when cells are present. You could only get to a certain size if you were one cell. Being one cell you certainly would not have the ability to think, lift objects, and run. Cells make our life possible.  |
| Your Challenge: Your challenge is to work with a partner to explore this site and the additional sites we have given you to look at. Please use these sites to gather information about plant and animal cells. Focus on what makes up these cells and what the similarities and differences are between plant and animal cells. Please use the worksheet that we hand out to keep track of this information. Once you feel like you have gathered enough information with you partner, please organize your information about plant and animal cells using the venn diagram provided on your worksheet. |
| printable copy of handout for this
challenge |
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Follow-up challenge!
If you have
finished
the first challenge and you have time left over, you can begin the
follow-up challenge. Using the back of your worksheet, draw a
picture
of either a plant cell or an animal cell. You can look back in
your
notes and continue to explore the websites we have provided. Use
as
much detail as you can and SHHHH! don't tell your partner whether you
are doing a plant cell or an animal cell! When you are done, you
will
switch papers with your partner and see if you can tell(thinking back
to everything you have learned) Once you think you have correctly
identified it, write down a few clues that let you know that the cell
was the kind of cell you thought it was. Then swap papers with
your
partners again and see if you were correct!! |
| Websites to use for additional
information: biology4kids.com How Cells Work! Wikipedia definition of a cell The Cell Cells site with additional links |
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| Thank you for visiting this
website! We hope you learned a lot about cells! If you are
interesting exploring more in the interesting world of cells, try doing
a google search using keywords like "animal cells," "plant
cells," or "facts about cells." Have fun, and try to keep
track of interesting facts you learn by writing them down on the sheet
we have given you. Keep CELLebrating! |