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Cell Organelles and Their Functions

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Students will be using Inspiration, which is a graphic organizer computer program, to create their own model community where they will label the community parts with the corresponding organelle. They will have prior knowledge of cell organelles and their functions from the previously given notes. Students will use the graphic organizer that they have created to produce a short essay correlating organelles to the roles in a community.

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6th - 7th
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Science
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