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)

[silver-rain]

Hah, I had to do that in 6th grade!
And, to answer your question, an animal cell does have a nuclear membrane.
Well for my project, I did an aerial view of the cell, used dry macaroni as the mitochrondria, a ball as a nucleus, etc. I used a frisbee for the cell, and ribbon around the frisbee for the nuclear membrane. I think pipe cleaners would be good as either the Golgi complex or the endoplasmic reticulum (fold it up a bit).

[xmkaex]

i don't know if this will help but i searched it up on google and this one i tot was pretty good..its paper mache

http://www.smv.org/jil/mll/fivesix/MLL5-6VS-CA-cells.pdf <<<only works on acrobat reader i think

[*mzkandi*]

Mind telling us this assigment's due date?

[Nicolatofu]

^She said Nov. 1st at the end of her post

I did this in 7th grade, and again this year. The simplist but nicest in my opinion is buying half of a styrofoam(sp?) ball and then glue your stuff on the top flat surface. I used play doh for the objects and glued them onto the ball. I also got a 100 on it :D

[sadolakced acid]

get a basket ball, cut it in half. that's your cell membrane.

get a tennis ball, cut it in half. that's your nuclear membrane.

get a golf ball, that's your nuclieolus.

ping-pong balls are vacuoles

various bouncy balls and marbles are golgi bodies, etc.

jelly beans are mitochondria.

[*RiC3xBoy*]

Dont forget them Ribosomes!!!

[dahalfkoreanstyl]

ribosomes can be ice cream sprinkles, lol

[lilliannnn]

BAKE A CAKE!

I had to do it in 6th and 7th grade. Use cookies, sprinkles, licorice, tube icing and lots of other stuff to create the pieces.

[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

[lilliannnn]

Damn, I feel stupid.

Oh well.. I got an A on it and I'm sure you will too.

[*mzkandi*]

Ok this thread was started a while back and since no deadline was given I will go ahead and close. If you need it reopen pm or another staff member.