This document describes a student project to model the parts of a plant cell using various candies and snacks. The students created physical representations of the nucleus using a popcorn ball, nucleolus using a gumball, cell wall using Twizzlers, cell membrane using sour spaghetti, vacuole using blue gummy worms, chloroplast using green gummy worms and sour spaghetti, smooth endoplasmic reticulum using blue sour spaghetti, rough endoplasmic reticulum using blue sour spaghetti and candy pearls, ribosomes using candy pearls, mitochondria using gummy worms, lysosomes using orange Skittles, and Golgi apparatus using lifesavers. For each structure, a brief description of its function

1. Have your plant cell and eat it
too.
By Mackenzie Atcheson
Ebony Adams
Claria Stephens

2. The Cell
We decided to do a plant cell.

3. The Nucleus
This is the nuclear
membrane is made of
gummy lifesavers because
this protects the cell like
the nuclear membrane.
This is the nucleus it is
made of a popcorn ball
because the nucleus is
round.
This is the nucleolus it is
made form a gumball and
we picked this because it
is rounded to like the
nucleoid.

4. The functions of the nucleus.
The nucleus is the brain of the cell. This gives
the cell the directions of what to do. The nuclear
membrane protects the membrane. The
nucleoid is the main part of the cell that gives
directions.

5. The Cell Wall
This is the cell wall
we made it form
Twizzlers they
surround the cell
like the cell wall
The cell wall is semi permeable it gives structure to the plant
cell and it still allows nutrients and waste to come in and out
of the cell.

6. The Cell Membrane
The cell membrane
is made out of
sour spaghetti
because it is
thinner than the
cell wall and they
surround the cell.
The cell membrane is the second protective layer in a plant cell but
the only one in an animal cell the. The membrane is semipermeable which means that some nutrients can come in and go
out.

7. The Vacuole
This is the vacuole it is made
from blue gummy worms
because they resemble the
vacuole.
The vacuole is found in both plant and animal cell but it is
very small and very few in an animal cell. In a plant cell the
vacuole is a big blob that stores water and food for the plant.

8. The Chloroplast
This is the chloroplast it is
made out of green gummy
worms and green sour
spaghetti because it resembles
the cell.
The chloroplast is only found in plant cells and they make
the cell green. This is where photosynthesis occurs in all
cells.

9. The Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum
This is the smooth
endoplasmic reticulum or
ER for short. It is made
from blue sour spaghetti
because it resembles it.
The function of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum is the organelle
that carries every thing else outside of the cell. It is connected to the
nucleus and leads to the cell membrane and in plant cells also to the
cell wall.

10. The Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum
This is the rough endoplasmic
reticulum it is made from blue sour
spaghetti and candy pearls. This
resembles it structurally.
The rough endoplasmic reticulum carries only proteins to the cell wall
and cell membrane. It is surrounded by ribosomes. It doesn't carry
anything else.

11. The Ribosomes
The ribosomes are made of
candy pearls because they
resemble them a lot.
The ribosomes particles that consist of RNA, they are found in large
numbers in the cytoplasm make proteins

12. The Mitochondria
This is the mitochondria.
It is made of gummy
worms and we chose it
because it looks like it.
The mitochondria are the power plant of the cell. This
provided energy to all of the cell and it Is the respiration in
the cell. It has a doubled membrane that folds in to make it
look like waves on the inside.

13. The Lysosomes
This is the lysosome We
made it out of orange
skittles and they
resemble the lysosomes
structurally.
The function of the lysosomes is to destroy unwanted
materials. The lysosomes of the cells are like suicidal sacs
they take in anything that doesn't belong in the cell they
surround it and self destruct.

14. Golgi Apparatus
This is the golgi apparatus it is
made for life saver gummies.
We chose it because it
resembled it.
The Golgi apparatus is where secretions and intracellular transport.