Animal and Plant Cells

Biology, Life Science, and General Elementary Science include a study of animal and plant cells.  Go ahead and learn the names of the organelles now.  This booklet, Inside the Cell, is free.  The images are excellent.  The booklet has complete descriptions for each organelle.   Start your instruction  by making clay models of both animal and plant cells.  Color animal and plant cells—the more detailed the coloring page the better.  Buy a used copy of the Biology Coloring book.  Coloring helps the child look closely at material.  I print several copies of plant and animal worksheets to study.  Paul, ten, made the clay models last week.  Today, he’s labeling the organelles using a word bank and several images, including those from his textbook.  Go ahead and pull several images.  Practice labeling both cells with and without a word bank.  Take a day to write out the names of the organelles and their purpose in a cell.  Muscle cells have more mitochondria.  Research why.  Liver cells teem with lysosomes.  Look up why.  This process takes several days.  Understanding plant and animal cell structure pays off—especially in Biology when you study mitosis and protein synthesis.