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How to Make a Model Animal and Plant Cell

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How to Make a Model Animal and Plant Cell

A model in science is a visual way to make scientific concepts and phenomena easy to see and understand.

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Making a model

  • Making a model of animal and plant cells is a brilliant way to see the differences between them.
  • You can be very inventive when it comes to representing the different types of cells and the different organelles.
  • You can even use pizza to make cell models.
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Animal cell pizza

  • Vacuole – large sliced tomato
  • Nucleus – pepperoni
  • Cytoplasm – tomato sauce
  • Mitochondria – mushrooms
  • The cell membrane – cheese
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Plant cell pizza

  • The cell wall – crust
  • Chloroplast – chopped up green pepper
  • Vacuole – large sliced tomato
  • Nucleus – pepperoni
  • Cytoplasm – tomato sauce
  • Mitochondria – mushrooms
  • The cell membrane – cheese
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Other ideas for cell models

  • Baking and using different toppings on cakes
  • Sewing and/or knitting organelles
  • Plasticine
  • Putting different sweets in jelly

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1Biology

1.1Cells, Tissues & Organs

1.2Reproduction & Variation

1.3Ecological Relationships & Classification

1.4Digestion & Nutrition

1.5Plants & Photosynthesis

1.6Biological Systems & Processes

2Chemistry

2.1Particles

2.2Chemical Reactions

2.3Atoms, Elements, Compounds

2.4The Periodic Table

2.5Materials & the Earth

2.6Reactivity

2.7Energetics

2.8Properties of Materials

3Physics

3.1Energy

3.2Forces & Motion

3.3Waves

3.4Electricity & Magnetism

3.5Matter

3.6Space Physics

4Thinking Scientifically

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