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) Cell membrane Ribosome
Lysosome (animal only) ER-smooth and rough Golgi Apparatus
Nucleus Nucleolus Vacuoles (plant only)
Chloroplasts (plant only) Chromosomes Centriole (animal only)
Cytoplasm Nuclear membrane Mitochondria
Cytoskeleton 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 Animal Cell
Nucleus Nucleus
Cell Wall Centrioles
Chloroplast Lysosome
Golgi Apparatus Golgi Apparatus
Large Vacuole Contractile Vacuole
Mitochondria Mitochondria
Cell Membrane Cell Membrane
Ribosomes Ribosomes
Endoplasmic Reticulum Endoplasmic Reticulum
Nucleolus Nucleolus
Cytoskeleton Cytoskeleton
Chromosomes 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 Function Analogy

1 Cytoplasm

2 Nucleus

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)