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Cell Projects - choose one

Project Choice 1:

Cell Model

Create a 3-dimensional model of either a plant cell OR an animal cell. Your model must be neat and attractive. It must include all the organelles of the cell type (plant or animal) that you select. (Remember, neither cell type contains all the organelles we studied.) Because of food and mold allergies, no food or food products are allowed. Be sure that each organelle in your model looks different and is clearly visible. For example, vacuoles may be blue in your model while lysosomes are orange. In addition, your model must have a clearly labeled key that identifies all the organelles and describes their functions. The key must be typed or NEATLY written in ink. The key must contain 3 columns (see example below). The first column contains the name of an organelle. The second column describes its function in the cell. The third column contains a sketch of the organelle as it appears in your model. Using the example from the first paragraph, your key would contain a sketch of a blue vacuole and an orange lysosome.

You will be graded on the following:

• 1. quality of the model (Neatness and appearance count!)
• 2. inclusion of all appropriate organelles
• 3. quality of the key (Grammar and spelling count. Be sure that all organelle descriptions are complete.)

Project Choice 2:

The Acme Board Game Challenge

Today is your lucky day! After working for years in a dead end job at the Acme Toy Company, you�ve been presented with an incredible challenge. It seems that the bosses at Acme want to get into the educational toy market and have asked you to design a game based on the cell. They�ve left most of the details up to you but there are a few requirements:

1. You are to create a board game that centers on the cell. The board must be neat, colorful and somewhat challenging. There might be forks in the road, lose a turn spaces, jump forward, move backward spaces, etc.

2. You are to write a set of rules that are neat, complete and easy to understand. They must be grammatically correct and must include the number of players, the object of the game, equipment, and rules.

3. Your game must include a minimum of 20 �trivia� cards that contain questions and answers from the cell. transport and heredity notes. You are to decide when and how the cards will be used and what happens when given answers are either correct or incorrect.

Your game will be graded on the following:

• 1. Neatness: Are the directions, trivia cards and game board neat?
• 2. Interest: Does the game hold your interest? Does the game incorporate �twists� such as forward jumps, backward bumps, etc.?
• 3. Quality of directions: Are the directions clear and complete? Are the directions grammatically correct? (This includes spelling!)
• 4. Quality/Quantity of trivia cards: Are there sufficient cards? Is the information correct? Are there grammatical/spelling errors? Are the questions �just right� � that is, do they avoid being too hard or too easy?