CELL ORGANELLE ANALOGY PROJECT

Using the diagrams from your notebook, you will create a ½ poster-sized drawing of an animal
or plant cell and label its organelles (see details below). Next to each label (organelle) you will
provide a picture and your analogy to the cell part. You must explain how your analogy relates
to the organelle’s function. Be creative! Example: a closet is like a vacuole because both
vacuoles and closets store materials (think of the factory we used in class---You cannot do a
factory!!!!). You are required to complete this project independently.
The 10 required cell parts are:
vacuole cell membrane nucleus
mitochondria Endoplasmic Recticulum nucleolus
Golgi apparatus lysosome
ribosomes cytoplasm

For Animal cells only: Cilia or Flagella; centrioles; lysosomes

For Plant cells only: Chloroplasts and Cell Wall
Categories & Points:
 Cell is hand-drawn (May be printed pictures but MUST be in color) and colored on poster
board. The drawing itself should be no less than 12in. by 12in. (25 points)
 Title that describes the type of cell (animal or plant) (5 points)
 Colorful and neat (10 points)
 All 10 cell parts are labeled correctly and analogies are clear and concise---Example:
Guards are like the cell memberane because they decided what enters and leaves (45
points)
 All 10 cell parts are accompanied by an image of the analogy (10 points)
 A straight line connects each part of your hand-drawn cell to a location containing three
things: the organelle name, analogy, and image. (5 points)

Grading of the above will be based on the fact that:

 Analogies are in complete sentences, well-written and creative.
 All analogies relate to the FUNCTION (i.e. “job”) of the cell part

 The textbook/class analogies are not allowed.

Total points possible for this project: 100 POINTS! (Lab category)
Posters are due at the beginning of class Friday, October 21st.
 Use the chart below to plot out your analogy for each organelle
Organelle Analogy

vacuole

ribosomes

lysosomes

cell membrane

Golgi Apparatus

cytoplasm

nucleus

nucleolus

endoplasmic reticulum (ER)

mitochondria

Cilia or Flagella (ANIMALS

ONLY)

Centrioles (ANIMAL ONLY)

Chloroplasts (PLANTS ONLY)

Cell Wall (PLANTS ONLY)