THREE EXAMPLES FOR YOUR ANALOGY
1.
Cell Model-Virtual Tour (google-docs power point)
You need to create a VIRTUAL TOUR of a plant or animal cell. This needs to be creative and interesting.
Virtual Tour…..you MUST pick an animal or plant cell and use the appropriate organelles that belong to that cell.
Your tour must clearly indicate you are doing a plant or animal cell.
You will be creating a power-point and submitting it on Google-docs.
You may work by yourself or in a group of 2 ONLY. Make sure your names appear in the presentation
somewhere.
For each organelle, you MUST show the following in your tour…..
 What it looks like…. include an artist representation AND an actual microscope photo.
 What its function is….use a picture and explain the analogy that represents what the organelle does
(I could use a battery to represent mitochondria because the mitochondria provides energy for a cell like
a battery provides energy for electronics)
Three photos and the analogy explanation. 15 Slides including the title page.
Cell includes the following parts:
Cell wall
(plant only)
Lysosome
(animal only)
Nucleus
Chloroplasts (plant only)
Cytoplasm
Cytoskeleton
Cell membrane
ER-smooth and rough
Nucleolus
Chromosomes
Nuclear membrane
Ribosome
Golgi Apparatus
Vacuoles (plant only)
Centriole (animal only)
Mitochondria
Flagellum (animal only)
2.
Cell Poster Analogy
Now that you are learning about the organelles in a cell, you need to think of an analogy, comparing the cell and it’s organelles to
something of your choice. This project should be done on paper LARGER than computer paper, and should be in full color. The
following criteria will be graded:
Your picture: make sure you include a labeled picture of what you are comparing your cell to. This is NOT a picture of a cell,
but of a soccer field, a shopping mall, a school, a car, etc.
Labels of the cell: make sure to include all the parts of your cell. Please choose ONE type of cell (plant or animal), and check
off each organelle as you add it in your picture:
Plant Cell
Nucleus
Cell Wall
Chloroplast
Golgi Apparatus
Large Vacuole
Mitochondria
Cell Membrane
Ribosomes
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Nucleolus
Cytoskeleton
Chromosomes
Animal Cell
Nucleus
Centrioles
Lysosome
Golgi Apparatus
Contractile Vacuole
Mitochondria
Cell Membrane
Ribosomes
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Nucleolus
Cytoskeleton
Chromosomes
Function: make sure you include a typed function of each part of your analogy, and why it is like the organelle.
Background: make sure you explain the overall idea of your cell/analogy.
*** One of the main functions of the cells is to make protein. You may use the example below to help you create your own
cell analogy group project.
Cell analogy group project must include the following:
1. Choose an animal or plant cell.
2. Decide on an analogy (not a factory, a pizza parlor or a city).
3. Determine the product (protein) of your analogy (What is your cell going to create?).
4. For each of the 10 cell organelles or structures, choose something in your analogy to represent it. Draw this representation.
5. Compare it to the part of your analogy that represents it and explain why. Be sure to explain what each structure does in your
analogy (comparison) AND what the actual organelle does is a cell (actual function in the cell).
6. Create your picture:
On the back of your paper: Include: Name of project: Cell Analogy and names of the group members.
On the front your paper: Include: Title: “The (animal) or (plant) cell as a _______________.”
Identify your protein.
Include: Background Information
EXAMPLE:
**** Background: A single cell works like a pizza parlor. There are many important jobs to be done to get on order out to the
customer, someone to make the pizza dough, someone to chop the vegetables, someone to prepare the pizza, someone to prepare
the drinks, someone to take the order, etc. In order for a cell to work as efficiently, there are many cell parts that must work
together as well.
Analogy that has comparison and the actual function in the cell.
The Golgi body is like a factory’s customization shop where finishing touches are put on products before they are ready to leave
the factory (comparison). In the cell, the Golgi body is a stack of membranes where carbohydrates and lipids are attached to
proteins by enzymes (actual function in the cell)
Your analogy will be graded for completeness (are all 10 cell structures represented), accuracy (do you have the correct cell
structures in the type of cell you choose; are the relationships of the cell structures shown correctly. Creativity (does your
analogy make sense; does your project look like you spent an appropriate amount of time completing it).
3.
Cell Cake/Cupcakes Analogy Worksheet
Directions: Make your baked product and decorate it accordingly.
Fill in the each row with the function for a given organelle and an analogy (the candy) to describe it.
Organelle
1
Cytoplasm
Nucleus
2
3
Rough- ER
4
Golgi Apparatus
5
Ribosome
6
Lysosome (animal)
7
Vacuole
(plant)
8
Mitochondria
9
Chloroplast
(plant)
10
Cell Wall
(plant)
11
Cytoskeleton
12
Cilia/Flagella
(animal)
13
Nucleolus
14
Cell Membrane
15
Smooth ER
16
Chromosomes
17
Nuclear Membrane
18
Centrioles
(animal)
Function
Analogy