Learning About Cells!!

This week, we decided to learn about cells.

Our starting point was Chapter 2 of Real Science 4 Kids, Biology Level 1.

This led us to watching many BrainPOP movies on the topic of cells.

We worked together on completing some of the pages of the lab workbook associated with RS4K...

we looked at these diagrams very closely,

and the girls worked hard on labeling cell diagrams for a prokaryotic cell, an animal cell, and a plant cell. 

We learned LOTS of facts about cells, and it was a lot of FUN!!  Seriously!

The best part is that we took our knowledge of cells and applied it to the pizzas we made for dinner   :)

I was inspired by this post and this post at All Things Beautiful (thanks Phyllis!)

{These and other fun science ideas can also be found on my "science" Pinterest board}

Here are our pizzas!

animal cell model

plant cell model

Plant cell:  

cell wall = pizza tray

cell membrane = crust

cytoplasm = sauce + cheese

chloroplasts = green pepper

Golgi apparatus (Lauren was SO PROUD that she had memorized how to spell this one!) = cluster of onions

mitochondria = pepperoni halves

nucleus = whole pepperoni with an olive half in the center for the nucleolus

ribosomes = small chopped broccoli

rough endoplasmic reticulum = separate cluster of onion slices sprinkled with chopped broccoli

lysosomes = sliced olives

peroxisomes = tiny chopped olives

Animal cell:

all of the above EXCEPT no cell wall and no chloroplasts

We had to get creative with the toppings we had on hand  ;)

The girls did such a great job, and they shared all they learned with David over dinner that night.

I love this kind of learning!!

I'll be linking here:

    

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