Assignment - Animal Cells
Learning Intentions
- To learn the organelles that make up animal cells
Notes
Please watch the following video on eukaryotic animal cells.
Eukaryopolis - The City of Animal Cells: Crash Course Biology #4 (11:34)
A White Blood Cell Chasing a Bacterium (0:28)
https://gfycat.com/meekevilcommabutterfly-white-blood-cell-cell-vs-bacteria
The artist Noah Scalin has created a series of beautiful "Portraits of Innovation", using clothing and other items arranged on the floor.
Procedure - At Home
In self-chosen groups of 2, using objects from around your house, take a picture of an animal cell that includes the following organelles, all in one picture. The Wikipedia image for an animal cell is a good place to start your research.
- Cell membrane
- Cytoplasm
- Cytoskeleton
- Centrosome
- Ribosome
- Mitochondrion
- Golgi apparatus (a.k.a. Golgi body)
- Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
- Rough endoplasmic reticulum
- Vacuole
- Lysosome
- Nucleus
- Nuclear membrane (a.k.a. nuclear envelope)
- Nucleoplasm
- Nucleolus
Procedure - In Class
- Using the software of your choice, create a new document.
- On the first page, insert your picture of the animal cell. Add numbers (1 to 15) labelling the organelles.
- On the next page(s), fill in the following table for all 15 organelles.
Name Description 1 Cell membrane ... 15 Nucleolus
Assessment
- Required Parts
- Includes a picture with all 15 organelles
- Names and descriptions of all 15 organelles
- Picture
- In focus
- Clear, high contrast, and easy to understand
- Names and Descriptions
- All 15 rows of the table are completed
| Required Parts |
Picture |
Names and Descriptions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Beginning | Not complete |
Very incomplete, and/or low quality |
Many mistakes and/or missing entries |
| 2. Developing | - |
A bit incomplete, and/or not great quality |
Some mistakes and/or missing entries |
| 3. Applying | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ |
| 4. Extending | - |
High artistic value, and/or very communicative |
- |