You have been hired by the Cellular Tour Company. The company specializes in selling micro-adventures: vacations in a microscopic scale! They need you to design a brochure to showcase a cell tour. Research and make a list of some interesting things you could do or see if you were able to take a microscopic trip into the cell. Choose at least seven organelle tour stop destinations and create a brochure to sell a travel package. Make it interesting. You may treat the cell as an amusement park (Disneyland, Magic Mountain, Knott's Berry Farm, etc) or a national park (Yosemite, Yellowstone, etc) or even a museum (California Science Center, Natural History Museum, etc) if you like. The stops must be informative and exciting, and must accurately reflect the environment.
Organelles
mitochondria
ribosome
nucleus (nucleolus)
lysosome
chloroplast
endoplasmic reticulum
golgi body (apparatus)
cell wall
vacuole
cell membrane
Cells Alive
Biology4Kids: Cell Structure
The Virtual Cell
Life Science Safari: Animal Cell
Cell Information
The Biology Project: Cell Biology
Cell Structure & Function
Cellular Biology
The Cell Page
Process
- Use the website links to research the organelles.
- Pay special attention to how each of the organelles look and where in the cell they are.
- You may want to sketch the organelles and write some notes while you are exploring the websites.
- Use the information you have gathered to work on your brochures.