Cell Organelle School
Your assignment as a group is to take the cell organelles listed below and find a person or
object that is in our school that does a similar job to the cell organelle. For example
(AND YOU CANNOT USE THIS ONE, The teacher in the classroom is the nucleus of that
room because they are “the boss” and give direction just like the nucleus of the cell
directs all activity). Fill out the table below for the cell organelles. Be creative!
Cell Organelle
Nucleus
Endoplasmic
Reticulum
Cytoplasm
Cell Wall
Cell Membrane
Ribosome
Golgi Complex
Chloroplast
Cell Membrane
Vacuole
Mitochondria
Object/Person
Reason