Download Cell Organelle Trading Cards

CELL ORGANELLE TRADING CARD PROJECT
Due Date: __________________
Your assignment is to make a “trading card” for each of the 12 cell
organelles listed below. Each trading card will feature a picture of
the organelle on one side and information about it on the other.
Then, you will compare the organelle to 3 other items.
The trading card should include:
a. You may make the cards on blank 3 x 5 index cards, or cut a blank sheet of paper into
4 equal pieces.
b. Organelles: Cell membrane, Nucleus, Chloroplasts, Vacuole, Lysosome, Mitochondria,
Cytoplasm, Ribosomes, Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi Body, Cell Wall, Nucleolus
FRONT OF CARD
NAME OF PART
PICTURE OF PART
Your picture must include
what the cell part looks like
as well as some
emblem/symbol that helps
signify HOW it functions in
the cell. These pictures can
be hand drawn or printed
from the computer
BACK OF CARD
NAME OF PART
Function: What is the function
Analogies: Provide 3 analogies of real life things
that function in the same way.
Home: What kind of cell is it found in? Animal
Cell, Plant Cell, or both.
Facts – Provide Any other interesting facts about
the part.
FRONT OF CARD
DNA
BACK OF CARD
DNA
Function: The DNA of a cell provides the cell
with directions for its specific functions.
Analogies: Compass, Map, Car manual.
Home: DNA is found in both plant cells and
animal cells
Facts: DNA is a twisted latter. The sides are
made up of phosphate and deoxyribose. The
rungs of the ladder are made up of four nitrogen
bases; thymine, guanine, cytosine, and adenine.
Rubric
10
8
6
4
All facts are correct
for the cards.
Most facts are
correct for the cards
There are 3 incorrect
facts on the cards.
There are more than three
incorrect facts
Spelling, grammar
and punctuation are
correct.
You have one
You have 2-4 spelling,
spelling, grammar, or grammar, or
punctuation error.
punctuation errors.
You have more than 4
spelling, grammar or
punctuation errors.
Cards are neat and
pictures and
analogies are
original.
Cards are neat
missing one picture
and or analogy.
Cards are messy and hard
to read. Missing 2 or
more analogies and or
pictures
Information
Conventions
Neatness
Assigned Date:______________________________
Due Date: __________________________________
Cards lack neatness
missing more than one
picture and or analogy.