Name: _________________________________________________
Date: _________________
Making Your Own Cells
Materials:
1 large box of Jell-O (red for animal cell, green for plant cell)
clear plastic cup (one for each student)
3 colors of dried fruit roll
small gumball
small marshmallow
round cake sprinkles
plastic spoons
cell wall
nucleus
endoplasmic reticulum
Golgi bodies
ribosomes
mitochondria
vacuole
fruit roll (green)
gumball
fruit roll (yellow)
fruit roll (blue)
cake sprinkles
jellybean
marshmallow
Procedures:
Write your name on your cup with a marker before beginning.
Make Jell-O with directions on the box. Let the Jell-O partially set. Add one gumball, one small
marshmallow, strips of colored fruit rolls, a few sprinkles. These are your cell parts.
Write your answers to these questions using complete sentences.
1. What is the function of the mitochondria? ______________________________________________
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2. What is the function of the cell wall? __________________________________________________
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3. What is the function of the ribosomes? ________________________________________________
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4. What is the function of the vacuole? __________________________________________________
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5. What is the function of a nucleus? ___________________________________________________
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6. What is the function of the cytoplasm? ________________________________________________
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7. Why is Jell-O a great symbol for cytoplasm? ___________________________________________
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8. What is the function of the Golgi bodies? ______________________________________________
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9. Have you created an animal or plant cell? _____________________________________________
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10. How do you know this? ___________________________________________________________
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