Jello Cell-o

We are loving our new Science Curriculum for Atticus. We chose the R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey Life (level one). It contains great worksheets for each experiment and they are extremely kid and teacher friendly. You can check out a sample here.

Today we talked about plant and animal cells and how they are similar and different. We started out by labeling animal cells and plant cells. We used the Cells Alive site to aid in the labeling.
I cut up fruit to represent parts of the cells and made small flags to label the parts as Atticus placed them in the Jello.
First he chose the round container to make his animal cell.
Then he made the plant cell in the square container.He noted the main difference between the two types of cells, besides the shape, was the presence of the chloroplasts (green grapes) in the plant cell.
We compared the finished result and completed our lab worksheet.
A pretty tasty lesson, I think!