CELL ANALOGIES COLLAGE
Objective: For this project you will make 10 original and
appropriate functional analogies between cell
structures and everyday objects.
Procedure:
1. Draw a typical plant or animal cell on a small (6" X 8") piece of drawing paper. Your picture should
include all organelles listed in the table below. Organelles should be clearly labeled.
2. Paste the drawing in the center of a larger sheet of construction paper.
3. Pointers from the cell structures lead to pictures of some everyday objects cut from magazines,
newspapers, or printed of the Internet.
4. A functional analogy between the cell organelle and the everyday object expressed in your own
words should be explained on the other side of your poster.
5. Your functional analysis table should be either typed or handwritten. Use blue or black INK only.
Cell organelles to be included in your drawing:
Plant Cell
Animal Cell
Cell membrane
Cell membrane
Cell wall
Lysosome
Vacuole
Ribosome
Cytoplasm
Chloroplast
Endoplasmic reticulum
Mitochondrion
Endoplasmic reticulum Golgi body
Ribosome
Nucleus
Nucleus
Vacuole
Nucleolus
Cytoplasm
Mitochondrion
Nucleolus
Grading Rubric
Picture of either plant or animal cell is neat, colorful, and includes 10 organelles. _____/15
10 pictures of the everyday objects are included __________/10
Analogies between 10 cell organelles and 10 everyday objects are explained. ______/20
Neatness __________/5
TOTAL __________________/50
Functional analogy table (example!)
Organelle
Function (main job) of this
organelle in the cell
Everyday
object
nucleus
Nucleus controls and
coordinates activities of the
whole cell.
Picture
of the
brain
Explain the
analogy(similarity)
between the cell part
and the everyday object
The nucleus is like a brain
because it controls and
coordinates the activities of
the whole cell in the same
way the brain controls and
coordinates activities of the
body.
Functional Analogy Table
Organelle
Function (main job) of
this organelle in the cell
Everyday object
Explain the analogy (similarity) between
the cell part and the everyday object