Today, we observed slides of skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle cells. We observed and notated the following characteristics: shape and color, nucleus location and number, and arrangement patterns. Atticus wrote a response to the following two questions: How do the characteristics of each type differ? Based on your observations of the structure of each type of cell, can you infer any of their functions? We also read a passage discussing cardiac and smooth muscles. We added the vocabulary words and definitions to our science notebook.