3-D Cell Project, IDEAS NEEDED! Options

[chinke3xcuti3]

Okay, I have a cell project in Science, and it has to be in 3-D form.

This is what it says on the Cell Project Rubric:

As part of your study of cells, you will construct a model of a cell. The model must be three-dimensional. You may choose to do either an animal cell or a plant cell. You will be required to give a short oral report (approximately 3 minutes) explaining your project to the class. The criteria for grading your project will be the same for either an animal cell or plant cell.

I'm not asking you to define anything or tell me any answers, I just need some suggestions.

Okay, I have to make a 3-D form of a cell, right?

Well, I have chosen to do an animal cell.

Here are the parts of an animal cell:

-Nucleus
-Golgi Complex
-Mitochondrion
-Lysosome
-Ribosome
-Cell membrane
-Endoplasmic reiculum

and..im confused, is there a nuclear membrane in an animal cell?

I was planning to make my project with plain old clay, or play-doh, but I realized that is so common, so many people are already doing that. It would be so boring to see the same or practically the same model, right?

Well, what do you think I should make the model look like? What should each part of the cell be?

I was thinking that the nucleus could be like, a tiny bouncy ball or something. I have pipe cleaners, but I don't know if those would be used as anything. So, suggestions needed, and help!

I just recieved this project, it's due on November 1st. Thanks if you can help!

*Looking for creative ideas*

NO FOOD IS ALLOWED (like..baking a cake..but stuff like...noodle strings and stuff are okay)

[b0st0ngrl]

^She said at the end of her post she couldn't use food.

I had to do that last year for Bio (eeew, I hated Bio). Anyway, I took an old medium size tupperware that my mom didn't need anymore, hot glued crinkled cellophane in it for the cytoplasm, the nucleus was a water bottle cap (nucleolus was just a bead hot glued in the bottle cap) and I used string and beads and toothpicks for all the other parts of the cell.

Hope that helps