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Cell Project: Possible Organelle Choices: Cell Membrane Lysosome Nucleus Mitochondria Endoplasmic Reticulum Golgi Apparatus Ribosomes Chloroplast If all of these get picked (this is the big if - there must be more than 8-9 students in your class for this to happen) and there are still more students that need a topic, you can pick from the following list of bacterial, protist or viral diseases: VIRUSES PROTIST PARASITES BACTERIA Parvo Malaria Tetanus Hepatitis - A, B, C, D, Delta, E, or G Toxoplasmosis Gonorrhea Influenza (any variety - bird, etc) Giardiasis Tuberculosis Dengue Fever Leishmaniasis Cholera Ebola Sleeping sickness Botulism Lyme Disease Amoebic dysentery Salmonella Hantavirus Chagas disease Pneumonia AIDS Whooping Cough African Swine Fever Food poisoning Blue Tongue Gastroenteritis Equine Infectious Anemia Bubonic Plague (Black Death) Swine Fever Listeriosis Rabies Diphtheria Rinderpest Flesh-eating Bacteria Smallpox Poliomyelitis Measles Rubella (German Measles) Mumps Chickenpox Part 1: First you are going to need to know with which organelle, or virus, or protist, or bacteria, you will be working. Once this is determined, you need to determine the true size of your organelle/bacteria etc. in real life. You will need to use a scaled picture in order to do this. Here is the equation you should follow: Ruler length of your organelle = X (real size of organelle) Ruler length of the scale bar what the scale represents (in microns or nm) or what the scale represents (in microns or nm) = X (real size of organelle) Ruler length of the scale bar Ruler length of your organelle You will solve for X in either of these equations. Now that you know how big it really is, you can convert this to room size. The length of an average eukaryotic cell is about 30 microns (or 30 x 106meters) (This is an arbitrary number, because cells can be as small as a few microns and as large as several centimeters). You will need to compare this to the length of the room (average size= 8.89 meters). Once these are known, you can set up a simple ratio equation to determine what the scale size of your organelle should be in the room - something like: X (Room length of organelle) = Length of the room Real length of normal organelle or bacteria or virus) Length of an average cell or X (Room length of organelle) = Real length of normal organelle or bacteria or virus Length of the room Real length of an average cell Again you will solve for X. All you have to do is plug in the three numbers we know (size of the room, size of the cell and size of your organelle normally) and then cross multiply to get the scale size of the organelle. We will practice this in class. Now you know how big your organelle needs to be! Part 2: There are some specific things that you should find out about your organelle, or virus, or protist, or bacteria. These consist of: Organelle Bacteria/Protist/Virus 1. Structure (what it looks like) - include a picture. 2. How big it is - both in real life and in the room 3. When and who discovered - include discoveries of the function and/or structure 4. The function of the organelle (what does it do for the cell) and how it relates to how it is made 5. Specific interactions with other organelles (you need more than one and often more than two) these are things like does your organelle get things that it needs from other organelles, does it send things to other organelles, is your organelle made by another organelle or does it make another organelle. 1. Structure (what it looks like) of your pathogen - include a picture 2. How big it is - both in real life and in the room 3. History of the disease - when first appeared, when any major outbreaks occurred, who isolated the organism that causes the disease, who found a cure (if there is one) 4. How is the disease transmitted, what cells it attacks, and how it hurts the cell (basically the life cycle of the organism). 5. What are the symptoms, treatments, cures and preventions for the disease. Collection of websites that may be helpful. Some of the information you find may be very technical. Do your best to sift through it for material that you can understand and ask me for help when needed. This is going to require book research and internet research. You will be given some class time, but you will also need to do work outside of the class, so don’t rely on being able to do it all here at school. You must use at least 2 books and at least 3 internet sources. You may need to use more, but you cannot use less. You will need to keep WRITTEN or typed, IN YOUR OWN WORDS, NOTES (you will turn these in with your project) and cite your sources. The format for your bibliography can be found on the research page. Part 3 and 4 (you should work on these concurrently if you want): o You will need to compile all of this information into a written summary. This needs to read like a short essay. It should NOT be just a series of factual sentences; please do not make it one paragraph. It should flow well and read easily. o You will turn in a rough draft of the essay about a week before your final due date. This will be worth a quiz grade. Do not wait till the last minute to get started on your writing! o The major facts are as written above are: Organelle Bacteria/Protist/Virus 1. Structure (what it looks like) - include a picture. 2. How big it is - both in real life and in the room 3. When and who discovered - include discoveries of the function and/or structure 4. The function of the organelle (what does it do for the cell) and how it relates to how it is made 5. Specific interactions with other organelles (you need more than one and often more than two) these are things like does your organelle get things that it needs from other organelles, does it send things to other organelles, is your organelle made by another organelle or does it make another organelle. 1. Structure (what it looks like) of your pathogen - include a picture 2. How big it is - both in real life and in the room 3. History of the disease - when first appeared, when any major outbreaks occurred, who isolated the organism that causes the disease, who found a cure (if there is one) 4. How is the disease transmitted, what cells it attacks, and how it hurts the cell (basically the life cycle of the organism). 5. What are the symptoms, treatments, cures and preventions for the disease. You will need to structurally build a scale model of your organelle or bacteria or virus to erect in the classroom. It should be a recognizable representation of your organelle. Any material is acceptable; however, please try not to be too wasteful of resources. Extra credit will be given for those who successfully use almost all recycled products (products that have already been used at least once). Also, please do your best to make your organelle somewhat collapsible or easily stored. Other class periods will be doing this project. You will be given some class time to work on this, but again do not rely on being able to complete it all at school. Part 5: You will need to make a presentation of your organelle and its functions to the rest of your class, as well as to guests that will be visiting the room. As long as it includes the specified information, this can be in a variety of formats – skits, posters, puppets, but since we will all be presenting at the same time, we can’t really do PowerPoint, although if you want to show a video or animation, you can have a laptop at your table. You will be the teacher for this. Make your “lesson” fun! How would you like to learn about your project? Creativity in presentation can bring extra credit points! Part 6: WHAT NEEDS TO BE TURNED IN TO ME: o THE SUMMARY INFORMATION OF YOUR ORGANELLE – THE WRITTEN PORTION OF YOUR PROJECT o YOUR WRITTEN NOTES o YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHY o YOUR PRESENTATION (if you had anything written) AND o YOUR MODEL ITSELF, WHICH WILL BE EVALUATED IN CLASS Grading Rubrics (how I will grade this project!): o Rough Draft Rubric – worth a quiz grade o Final Draft, Model, and Presentation Rubric – total worth a test and a lab grade. o This completes the cell project. I hope that you have fun with this!