Cooks Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Welllll my son has some Science homework in which he has to make and correctly label a model cell. He has many ideas how to go about this... all filled me with dread... but I wondered whether any of you had this homwork with your children and if so, what materials did you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I can try and help Is it just 'a cell' or a specific cell? You could get a small sponge ball and stick cocktail sticks in it and spray paint ... a virus. Get an ice cream tub and cut it in half (depthways to make it shallower) and then stick paper organelles in it to make a plant cell. You could also try plastercine but it might get a bit messy Print out some labels on the computer and it might make it look a bit better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 My sister had this exact homework this weekend too! She used a white shoebox(the big part not the lid) and made the top of it look like a simple plant cell using foam and coloured paper. She put on the cell wall, cell membrane, nucleus, vacuole, cytoplasm and chloroplasts. She has then done a diagram and stuck it into the shoebox in case the teacher asks her to name the parts! My sister in the year above had to same homework last year and she used up one of those long thin balloons. First she cut it so it wasn't really long, blew it up, painted it white, drew black lines around it and put a black nucleus on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Copy these? I love the brain cell http://www.firebox.com/product/1052/Giant-Microbes?via=cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 YD did this a week or so ago, she made a hoop of scrunched up red tissue paper, then filled in the gap in the middle with more red tissue and made it into a red blood cell Karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Red blood cell - cover a disc shape with material or make out of plasticine Boxes - use as others have said - bubble wrap looks good as cytoplasm Bath sponges - colour in - or add 3d parts such as pasta twist for DNA Use cocktail sticks as flag labels - always looks good. Best one I have seen - 1/2 egg shape clear mould filled with jelly like stuff, Marble for Nucleus then surface components all with cocktail stick markers. Other idea - bake a sponge - the ice and decorate with parts in icing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Good luck, you seem to have enough advice already! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 And i thought Tutankarmoon (sp ) was hard this am when I tackled it with YS. second time round for me too. Yawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 My YS has to make an eosinophil. We are going to use jelly and then will put bits and pieces into it as begins to set..I think! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Sounds very Blue Peterish to me - hers one I made earlier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poached Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 hi cookie*waves* we had this in yr 7 and one of my friends got a sponge cut in the middle in the shape of the sponge and stuck a half of a rubber ball and painted it orange but i cant remember what cell its was*walks of to think* josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 oooh liking the sound of a sponge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted October 11, 2009 Author Share Posted October 11, 2009 oooh your all great, thanks for all those ideas. He's decided on a Plant Cell, he has to label the Cell, Membrane, Chloroplast, Cytoplasm, Nucleus and Vacuole. Ideas for construction so far vary from Salt Dough modelling and painting to cutting a tennis ball in half and filling with clear mastic and various other objects. I love the idea of a sponge, sounds easy. *waves back at Josh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted October 11, 2009 Author Share Posted October 11, 2009 Other idea - bake a sponge - the ice and decorate with parts in icing I REALLY like this idea I wonder if he will I will ask him tomorrow, thats very clever and could act as a snack for the class.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..lay a little egg for me Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Hard boil an egg and cut in half (yolk is nucleus) make little slits in the white and stuff in things like olives, bits of spaghetti etc for organelles...again could be all edible. Of course, if you want to do an eosinophil you would need a double yolker!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
