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Plant and Animal Cells

5th Grade · Science · Easy · about 10 minutes

5-LS1-1 | Plant and Animal Cells - Easy level

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Standards referenced

• MS-LS1-1 — Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.
• MS-LS1-2 — Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways the parts of cells contribute to the function.

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