Whether cell specialization is part of your curriculum or not, this short structured activity will have students practice reading skills while they connect cell shapes and functions to the presence of an increased amount of certain types of organelles in specialized cells. This is an opportunity for application of organelle functions.

Included in this practice is a short description of cell specialization, 8 opportunities to read a short description of a tissue type in animals and one plant example and identify which organelles these types of tissues would have in higher quantity based on their function. An un-scaffolded version of the assignment, a scaffolded version of the assignment, and an answer key are all included.

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