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Inside Living Things

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Inside Living Things

All living things are made of the same building blocks: cells. In some cases, these cells combine to form tissues and organs inside plants and animals. This unit helps students explore the structures that make up plants and animals. Students will read about the major organs and body systems inside animals, and discover how all of the parts of an organism work together to keep it alive and healthy.

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Unit Nonfiction Books

Book cover shows a close-up view of some of the tiny parts that are inside living things.

Inside Living Things

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Process Activities

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Cell Models

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Changing Pulse Rates

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Lung Capacity

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Incredible Eyes

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Parasites

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Transport Systems in Plants

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You've Got a Lot of Nerve!

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Fighting Infection!

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Supporting Materials

Investigation Packs

Movement

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Grasshopper

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Bee Hummingbird

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Sidewinder

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Bat Ray

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Sea Slug

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Kitchen Science: Lung Capacity

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Medicines from the Sea

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Sea Unseen

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Career Files

Cardiologist; Lab Technician; Radiographer

Quick Reads

A Heart Machine

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A Monkey's Robotic Arm

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Bacteria Buddies

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Space Bones

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The First Vaccine

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Warm Blooded, Cold Blooded

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Reading A-Z Books

InFLUenza

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Graphic Organizers

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KWL Chart

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Venn Diagram

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Retelling Rubrics

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Science Diagrams

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Circulatory System

Digestive System

Excretory System

Human Circulatory and Plant Vascular Systems

Human Skin and Sweating

Muscular System

Nervous System

Plant Cell and Animal Cell

Respiratory System

Seven Major Body Systems

Skeletal System

Types of Blood Cells

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Inside Living Things

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Word Work

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