Cell Wars Project Blog - (9/19-(9/23)
This week we have been
working on our "cell wars" project. Each team was assigned a cell organelle. This was like a debate because at the end of this project, we would be voting for an organelle to be president of cell land. My team decided to learn about the cell membrane. We had to make posters (the poster above is a poster that my group created) with catchy phrases or hashtags, and a commercial video that explains why the organelle that your team chose is important. During
all of the researching, we also have to post "smears" on edmodo that was about why another organelle should not be "president of cell land." The smears looked something like this:
Lysosomes have the
ability to cause apoptosis, which is when a cell kills itself. Lysosomes can’t
even take care of themselves! VOTE cell membrane!
http://badorganellesoic.weebly.com/lysosomes.html
http://badorganellesoic.weebly.com/lysosomes.html
Summary:
I learned that the cell
membrane is like a bag that keeps all of the parts of the cell inside of it. Another way to think about it is that the cell membrane is a house. A house has windows that allow air to get in and out. The cell membrane is similar because it allows liquids to enter and leave the cell. It keeps all of the dirty things that could harm the cell
outside of the cell.
People usually mix up
the cell wall with the cell membrane, but actually they are two very different
things. Cell walls are only in plant cells, and they do protect the cell, but they
mostly let the plant to grow high, and have support so they don't fall. The cell membrane does many different things.
Facts about other organelles:
In both animal and plant cells:
Ribosomes are small and circular. Their color is blue and red. Ribosomes make proteins for the cell and pass them to the Golgi. The Golgi takes resources and materials and make them better. The Golgi takes the protein (that they got from the Ribosomes) and give them to the Endoplasmic Reticulum who manufactures the proteins. The mitochondria controls 90% of the cell. In other words, it creates energy for the cell. The vacuole stores water, nutrients, and food for the cell. It also helps keep the shape of the plant. The Endoplasmic Reticulum is like a hallway for the cell. It transports proteins to the different parts of the cell that need them.
In only plant cells:
The cell wall protects the cell and helps plants stand tall. The Chloroplast makes food for plants using photosynthesis which prevents global warming.
Backward-Looking:
How much did you know about the subject before
we started?
Last year, we learned
about organelles, and what they do, but we did not go too deep into learning about them as we
are now. Before we started, I knew that organelles are parts that make up a
cell, and help the cell do its job in a plant or animal cell.
I also knew that
there were some organelles that where just in animal cells (lysosomes), and some organelles that were just in plant cells (chloroplasts, cell walls,) but
that there were most organelles in both animal, and plant cells.
Inward-Looking:
How do you feel about this piece of work? What
parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about
this piece or work?
I feel pretty good about
this piece of work. I particularly like how we are allowed to smear
other organelles, because then you learn the positives and negatives of many
different organelles. I also like how we made a calendar of what we will
be working on, and on what days because from my other project blog, you can see
that I had a lot of trouble with that.
I enjoy this project
because it is exciting that we will be voting for the best president for
"cell land," and that you are competing against all of the other groups
that are trying as hard as you have. I don't dislike anything about this
project because I think it is a good learning experience that we will never
forget.
Outward-Looking:
Did you do your work the way other people did
theirs? In what ways did you do it differently? In what ways was your work or
process similar?
Each group is doing the
project similar because we are all following the calendars that we made in class, so
nobody is left behind.
When you look at the smears, each group is going in
a different direction on how they want the smear to look, and how they want it
to sound, and what they want it to be about. There is also a different taste of how the groups replied when other groups smeared them. Some groups replied with a smear for the other group, and other teams replied by saying why that team is wrong or right.
Forward-Looking:
What would you change if you had a chance to do
this piece over again?
If I had a chance to do
this piece over again, there is only one thing that I would fix. I would change the calendars a little bit because we had too much time on the posters, and then less time on the video. We had enough time to make a script, and film the video, but no time to edit the video and turn it in.
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