Historical Connection (cells)

Well, I'll start off by saying that every single living thing is made up of cells. Cells are the

building blocks of life. Not one human would be alive if it weren't for cells. Basically, all those

famous people in history wouldn't exist. We wouldn't exist. Nobody would have sailed the

ocean, nor found gold, spices, land, etc. There wouldn't even be history. We wouldn't even

be HERE to talk about history in the first place! Cells make up the human body.

Life wouldn't even exist if there weren't any cells.

My social studies connection will be on a biography of the person who discovered cells

its history. The cell was discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665. He discovered the

cells in both dead and living organisms.This British scientist was born in Britain on July 18th,

1635. He was often sick as a child, and was home-schooled. He was interested on

mechanic studies in his early life. Later, he started working with a scientist, doing many

experiments, and helping him with his research. He used the microscope and telescope to

study structures between living and nonliving things. His first breakthrough came with an

experiment with a cork, where he discovered that a cork was made of a single unit. After

that, he experimented with different plants and discovered the cells from the tissue of a

plant. He was the first person to use the term “cells”. It is said that he named the term “cells”

because it resembles the cells in which monks would work in.