Cell Poster Project

Instructions: You will work in pairs to produce a poster with a diagram of a cell that includes all of the cell organelles listed on the next page. Choose your list of organelles based upon whether or not you want to make a poster of a plant cell or an animal cell (for this assignment, each has the same number of organelles). The key to earning the maximum number of points for this assignment is to be as accurate as you can when depicting cell organelles, using as many careful 3-D drawings that you make. It is easy to spot a poster in which minimal effort was used because the drawings are sloppy, lack clarity and vibrant colors. Yours should reflect the hard work and time that you put into it. The other important part of this assignment is that you will be assigning a more commonly recognizable analogy or metaphor to each of the cell organelles, and finding pictures of those analogous objects to put on your poster so that it is clear to the viewer which object goes with which organelle. For instance, you might use picture of a government building as an analogy for the nucleus. This picture, clipped from a magazine, newspaper, or even printed from the web, will be pasted onto your poster somewhere outside of your cell drawing and you will use a line to connect it to your drawing of the nucleus inside the cell drawing. You will do this for each of the organelles, finding meaningful analogous objects that make sense to represent the organelles you will connect them to. On the back of your poster, you will write (or attach a typed version of) a key that will explain why each analogous object image was used to describe each cell organelle. This must demonstrate your knowledge of the function of the cell organelles on the poster, or the key will not make sense of your use of analogies. You must be creative in your choosing of proper analogous objects. Do not copy other groups or the objects from the cell graphic organizer you received at the start of this unitcreate your own analogies, there are plenty to choose from. The more creative yours are, the more points they will earn you, but they must also be fitting for the cell organelles they represent or the creativity will be wasted. If you can manage to make your analogous objects relate to a single theme, you may be able to earn extra credit (again, as long as they are creative and fitting). Here is a sample of what a poster may look like (please do not copy this one if you want points): (I have obviously left a lot of pictures out so that your creativity can run wild)

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Organelle Lists: Plant Cell 1. Nucleus 2. Nuclear Membrane 3. Central Vacuole 4. Cell Wall 5. Chloroplast 6. Mitochondrion 7. Cell Membrane 8. Cytosol (combination of cytoskeleton and cytoplasm) 9. Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum 10. Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum 11. Golgi Apparatus (or complex) 12. Ribosome Animal Cell 1. Nucleus 2. Nucleolus 3. Nuclear Membrane 4. Cell Membrane 5. Mitochondrion 6. Cytosol (combination of cytoskeleton and cytoplasm) 7. Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum 8. Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum 9. Golgi Apparatus (or complex) 10. Ribosome 11. Lysosome 12. Vacuole Grading Rubric: 0 Points Cell drawing clearly lacked effort, not 3-D, unclear, and/or missing more than the organelles on the list Organelle metaphors/ analogies are illogical or not present, and/or pictures do not make any sense Key to metaphors/ analogies is missing several parts, insufficiently explained, and/or does not at all link organelles to pictures 4 Points Cell drawing is not very clear, poor attempt at 3D, or missing more than 2 organelles on the list Organelle metaphors/ analogies are not very logical or creative, or pictures are unclear and irrelevant Key to metaphors/ analogies is missing 1-2 parts, not at all thorough and/or does not properly link organelle functions to pictures used 8 Points Cell drawing is less than clear, 3-D, and/or complete with all but 1-2 organelles on the list 12 Points Cell drawing is clear, realistic, 3-D, and complete with all organelles in the list

Organelle metaphors/ Organelle metaphors/ analogies are a bit of a analogies are logical and stretch, or not especially creative, and the pictures creative, and pictures are of them used look clear not clear/relevant and relevant Key to metaphors/ Key to metaphors/ analogies is complete but analogies is complete, not very thorough, and thorough, and fully more or less links explains link between the organelle functions to organelles function and pictures used the picture used