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Name ________________________________ Date__________Period_______
The Cell City Model Project
In this project, you will make a 3-Dimensional model of a typical cell with elements of a city. You may
choose to make an animal cell or a plant cell. You can work with many different types of materials, but
here are some ideas:
 Styrofoam ball with various items stuck in, representing organelle (available at Michael’s)
 Jell-O, with jellybeans, pasta, etc.
 Clay model mounted on foam board
 Felt pieces on a piece of cardboard, with a lid (like a pop-up book)
 View through a pin hole in a shoebox gives a 3-D cell look
 Cake decorated like a cell
 Ceramic model, with smaller pieces baked in as organelle
 Paper-mache cell
It must be 3-Dimensional and not drawn or it is half credit for project. No part of this project
will be drawn!!!
DEADLINE: ____________________
Cell Project Rubric
1. The project must say Animal or Plant on paper. 5 points
2. Animal cell
Model must have 15 organelles and be 3-Dimensional. 15 points
a) Cell membrane
h) Mitochondria
b) Nucleus
i) Ribosomes
c) Nucleolus
j) Vacuoles
d) Nuclear Pores
k) Golgi body
e) Chromosomes
l) Cytoplasm
f) Rough endoplasmic
m) Lysosome
reticulum
n) Microtubules
g) Smooth endoplasmic
o) Centrioles
reticulum
Plant cell
Model must have 15 organelles. 15 points
Add to list above:
a. Cell wall
b) Chloroplast
b. Remove from list: Lysosomes and Centrioles
3. Must have 15 functions written on paper. 15 points (see list above)
4. Must have a clear key with 15 organelles and the relationship between cell
structures and parts of the city. 15 points (see list above)
5. Must have this Rubric attached to model. 5 points
Total points 55