Parts of a Cell and Cell Organelle Activity – Cell City Project

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This simple and easy-to-implement project is an exciting way to assess your student’s knowledge about cell organelles and their functions! This lesson is designed to assess student knowledge about cell organelles and their functions using abstract thinking and a higher depth of knowledge level (specifically level 4, extended thinking). It should be used towards the end of a cell unit, after students have learned the concepts, as a way to creatively gauge their understanding.

Using higher level thinking skills, students will make analogies between the organelles in a cell and the entities necessary to run a city… ultimately creating their very own cell city! Students apply a deeper level of understanding about the make-up of both plant-like and animal-like cells while also engaging their creative, artistic side. Throughout the project, students begin to see that, like a city, the cell requires all of its all organelles to survive; it operates as a system. This project can be given as an individual or group assignment. It can also be used as a stand-alone assessment or in conjunction with a more traditional type of assessment.

Recommended Age Group: middle school, grades 6-8

Next Generation Science Standards

MS-LS1-1 Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.

MS-LS1-2 Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function.

Common Core Standards – ELA

RST.6-8.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.

WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

Guiding Questions

Can we model our understanding of cells in a different way?

Included in this lesson:

*Easy-to-Follow instructions with material suggestions

*Rubrics for both the plant-like and animal-like cell city projects

*Student worksheet for brainstorming ideas before getting started

*Student reflection worksheet for after the project is created

*Suggested responses for student worksheet

*Teacher tips

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