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By Carolyn

Thanks, Janet.

I teach fifth grade. Unfortunately, we don't have microscopes in our classroom. We do have a couple in our science lab. We have a science lab teacher who shows them cells through a microscope. She has
samples of items such as human hair and uterine cells. They looked at the uterine cells this week.
This is the sad thing about elementary school science. They tell us it's so important, are even testing on it at the end of the year, yet we are not given much of a budget for it. I think our budget last year was something like $100 per grade level.
After looking at cells in the

lab, I assigned a project for the kids to make cell models at home. I did this last year with my fifth graders, and they did a nice job with these. I had one student who baked a cake with her mother. She put toothpicks into the cell parts with little flags to identify the cell parts. I also had another student use a sponge. It will be interesting to see just what they come up with. Having kids do this sort of thing at home helps me save money, too.

You sound very knowledgeable, so I may be contacting you again. I like talking with middle school teachers who specialize in a subject area. BTW, my husband is a high school physical sciences teacher, and he is a great help to me in that area.