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Cell Diagrams: Interactive Notebook with Animal & Plant Cells

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Tracking PixelHey science teachers!  Need ideas to make your lesson plans about cell diagrams of living things more interesting? Animal cells and plant cells are a fun topic for kids of all ages. Today I want to show you how to combine cell diagrams with Interactive Notebooks. I am excited to partner with Five Star® for this sponsored post and to highlight their Interactive Notetaking items.

If you are looking for animal cells worksheets or plant cells worksheets to use in teaching your kids about biology, these interactive notebook printables are better than your average worksheets and involve some immersive learning!  Younger students and older students will all enjoy this activity.

Cell Diagrams Interactive Note Taking

First let me tell you a little bit about Interactive Notetaking or notebooks and how to do it.

What is Interactive Notebooking?

If you are new to this concept, you are going to love it! Interactive Notebooking is a learning style that engages students with the material they learn in the classroom. By adding in creative things such as flaps that open, moveable parts and pieces, colorful images and pages to color in, it really personalizes the learning process for kids because they are involved in creating a notebook to reflect what they are learning.

The main difference from traditional notetaking is that Interactive Notebooking lets students pause, process and interact with the lesson on their terms, rather than simply copying down notes. If you have already used this style of note taking in your teaching, then you know how much fun it can be! It can be used for students of all ages.

cell diagrams interactive note taking

My son is studying biology this year in high school and I wanted to bring in some creativity to his lesson on cell types for the multicellular organism. Adding color, graphic organizers, and hands-on elements to a lesson always helps kids to remember it more! I created this cell diagram printable set to use in our lesson.

These are not your average science worksheets!  They work great for middle school students, high school students, or even elementary school students learning about different types of cells. It can be used individually or even in small groups.

 

Included in the Plant Cell Worksheets and Animal Cell Worksheets Notebooking Set:

  • Animal Cell Diagram: It includes a diagram labeled with the animal cell parts as well as a blank animal cell diagram. The diagram has lines pointing to each of the different parts of the cell to be labeled. There are color versions and black and white versions. The parts of the animal cell included: cell membrane, centriole, cytoplasm, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi body, lysosome, mitochondrion, nucleolus, nucleus, vacuole. It also has a foldable page for writing definitions. And finally it has the parts of an animal cell separated to be re-built by your students.  (Did you know that the cells of the human body are animal cells?)
  • Plant Cell Diagram: Included is a labeled plant cell diagram and blank plant cell diagrams. The diagram has lines to each of the parts of a plant cell to be labeled. The major plant cell parts included are: cell wall, chloroplast, cytoplasm, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi bodies, mitochondria, nucleolus, nucleus, vacuole. It also has a foldable page for writing definitions about the cell vocabulary. And finally it has the parts of the plant cell separated to be re-built by your students. There is a pocket that can be glued into a notebook to hold all of the pieces.

This printable does not include an answer key for the definitions. You can use your own biology text for the definitions. The foldable pages could also be used to create a word bank for a matching game if left unfolded. The black and white diagrams could also be used as a coloring page to use with younger students.

Some features we love include:

Table of contents

Space for page numbers

Pockets (most have closures!)

Margins to record page topics

Grid ruled reference guide in the back

Customizable covers

Kids love them, parents love them, and teachers love them!  Someone smart designed these notebooks.

interactive notebook table of contents

Interactive Notetaking with Cell Diagrams:
Interactive notebook biology

Check out how we built our Interactive Notetaking lesson on animal cell diagrams and plant cell diagrams. This lesson includes both animal cells and plant cells. There are diagrams of each in full color or in a black and white outline. I included diagrams with labels for learning and without labels for students to fill in. You can use these to test their knowledge. I also included a foldable page for writing in the definitions of each of the unique characteristics and parts of the cell. This is fun way for kids to study vocabulary words by quizzing themselves!

If you need an animal cell poster or a plant cell poster to demonstrate to your students, you can print these models larger to hang on your wall!

biology plant cell diagram interactive notetaking

 

And finally, I have a set of cell parts all broken apart to be re-built and identified individually.  

In addition to the pockets that are built into the front of the notebook, there are some little pockets to glue into your notebook to store all of the parts!

build animal cell and plant cells

Have you tried the Five Star® Customizable Interactive Notebook yet?  You should definitely give it a try. I think you’ll fall in love, too! A definite must for your back-to-school list. 

Download the Plant & Animal Cell Diagrams Now!

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This post has been sponsored by FIVE STAR® school supplies. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

 

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