Animal Cell Travel Brochure
Welcome to the latest new travel adventure, miniaturization. The year is 2042 and we now have the ability to reduce the size of anything including living organisms. As a result, there is a new market for people to travel into and through cells. Everyone who ever took Biology or Life Science remembers how fascinating these microscopic structures are and now with the amazing new technology of miniaturization, it will be possible for us to travel through the cell.
You have been hired, because of your knowledge of the cell, to produce the first ever travel brochure of the cell. Specifically, you will make a travel brochure for the animal cell.
YOUR JOB – To make an attractive travel brochure of the animal cell. You must describe the different places to visit in the cell in as few words as possible. Include pictures of the different places. Make it sound intriguing so that those people who may not be interested would want to visit the cell after reading your travel brochure. Remember, brevity is important. Keep the brochure attractive and creative including all of the places to visit as listed below. Use pictures and describe each part in as few words as possible. It must be printed out using a color printer.
INLCUDE THE FOLLOWING PLACES YOU MUST VISIT IN YOUR CELL TRAVEL BROCHURE:
1. Cell Membrane
2. Cytoplasm
3. Nucleus
4. Nuclear Membrane
5. Nucleolus
6, 7, 8 Chromatin/Chromosomes/DNA – For this part, in addition to stating the function, explain to the travelers when they will see the chromatin and when they will see the chromosomes. In addition, explain the relationship between the DNA and the chromatin or chromosomes
9. Ribosomes
10. Mitochondria
11. Endoplasmic Reticulum – Include RER and SER
12.Golgi Bodies
13.Lysosomes
14. Cytoskeleton
SUMMARY OF WHAT YOU MUST DO FOR THE PROJECT
1. You must write about each part in a concise manner.
2. Include a picture of each part. On my website for the cell brochure, you will find links to help you find the pictures. You may search in other places for pictures. Draw them yourself if you want to. Be sure to present this as a travel brochure.
3. Make it an attractive, colorful travel brochure
4. Write your name and section on the first page, lower right corner.
DUE DATE – February 13
Most of the work for this project will be done at home. You will begin on Monday, January 30 and will be given one other lab day, Wednesday, February 1. The project is due on February, 13. If you lack access to a computer at home, you can use the school computers in the morning before school, after school and during fourth block. There is enough time being given to allow all students to meet this deadline, even those without a computer at home.
GRADING - This travel brochure is worth a test grade.
1. Attractive Brochure – 1O POINTS TOTAL
It should be colorful and appealing. It must be printed out using a color printer.
2. Pictures - There should be pictures of the different places you must visit as listed above.
3 Points each picture – 14 pictures - 42 POINTS TOTAL
There are links at the bottom of this page to help you find them.
3. Written Description - A description of each place you visit must be included. It should be brief. Write it so it sounds interesting to the reader and write it from the perspective of a travel brochure. Be sure to include the function or job of each part. Keep the description brief and accurate to get credit.
Each place listed above must be described.
3 points each part – 14 parts – 42 POINTS TOTAL
4. Name and section in lower right corner of first page
6 POINTS
CHECKLIST – Use before you pass the brochure in to me.
1. IS IT A COLORFUL, ATTRACTIVE TRAVEL BROCHURE? DID YOU PRINT IT OUT USING A COLOR PRINTER?
2. DID YOU WRITE ABOUT EACH OF THE PARTS LISTED ON PAGE 2 ?
3. DID YOU INCLUDE PICTURES OF ALL OF THE PARTS?
4. DID YOU WRITE YOUR NAME AND SECTION ON THE FIRST PAGE, LOWER RIGHT CORNER?
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