Plant Cells Models and Metaphors

Grade: Elementary/Middle School

Objective: Students will better understand plant cell organelles and their functions through making models and analogies.

We:
-Talked about cells, the discovery of cells, and how cells do many of the same things our bodies do (make energy, digest, etc.), while they make up our bodies and the bodies of all other living things
-Made a chart of plant cell organelles, their functions, and analogy for something in our community that functions the way that organelle does (for example the leaders of our community function like the nucleus)
-Made analogies for things in our school that function like the parts of a plant cell and put green labels on those things (for example, our school building is like our cell wall)
-Made a model of a plant-cell using a plastic bag as the cell membrane and various other found items as the organelles