1.8. Organelles Sub Day 2: Independent Station: Assignment 4: Gallery Walk + Web Quest

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1.8. Organelles Sub Day 2: Independent Station: Assignment 4: Gallery Walk + Web Quest

Organelle / Plant
Animal
Both? / Gallery Walk
Function
(definitions from the walls)
Copy these definitions off the walls of the class! Each organelle can be found around the class! / Web Quest
Function

Click on the tutorial button of the plant and animal cell to find these definitions. Copy the definitions below! / Cell City Analogy
Nucleus
/ The mayor in town hall: The mayor controls what happens in his city just like the nucleus controls what happens in the cell.
Ribosome

/ College: Colleges train people to carry out different jobs. The ribosomes take the information in the DNA (stored in the nucleus) and create proteins to carry out different jobs.
Chloroplast

/ Farmers: The chloroplast makes food for the cell just like farmers make food for the city.
Mitochondria
/ Power plant: The power plant provides energy for the city, the mitochondria provides energy for the cell.
Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum
/ Factory warehouse: Things for the city are made in the factory warehouse. Things (fats and proteins) for the cell are made in the endoplasmic reticulum
Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum

Golgi Apparatus
/ Post office: The Golgi prepares proteins to leave the cell just like the post office prepares mail to leave the city
Cell Membrane
/ City walls: The city walls keep good stuff in the city and bad stuff out the city
Cell Wall

/ Extra fortified city wall: This wall provides very rigid structure for the cell making it hard to move.
Vacuole
/ Grocery Store: When the cell needs food or water, it goes to the vacuole just like people go to the super market.
Lysosome
/ Street Sweepers: The street sweepers clean up left over food and waste just like the lysosome.
Cytoplasm
/ The land and the air that fills the entire city
Role in the school / Organelle / Roll in the school / organelle
The generator that provides the electricity and energy for the school / The principals office where all the rules for students are made
The classrooms where children are turned into young scholars using the rules from the office / The janitor who cleans up the messes around the school
Air that fills all the rooms and hallways in the entire school school / The refrigerator where the food is stored for the school
The front office where mail and newsletters are packaged and delivered / The front gate and doors into the school that keep the good students and the bad people out

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