The document summarizes a school project where students modeled different cell organelles out of food items. They used gummy worms to represent the smooth ER due to its smooth texture and ability to curl. Popcorn balls represented vacuoles for containing waste. A cake pan acted as the cell membrane to protect "contents" like the fruit roll-up Golgi body and peach pit nucleus. Other organelles like mitochondria and lysosomes were modeled with circus peanuts and M&M's respectively due to their visual similarities. The nuclear membrane was represented by a peach skin and nucleolus by a peach. Sour gummy worms depicted rough ER for their textured outer coating.

1. By: Dylan Bender, Tucker Jenary, Zach Jones, Dylan Brown
Author: Bender

2. Smooth ER is responsible for
synthesis of lipids + steroids
We used gummy worms
because they are smooth like
the ER
Also, they because we could
curl them up like the ER
Author: Tucker Jenary

3. Vacuole
Vacuoles main
responsibility is
containing waste
products
Usually more than one
small vacuole in animal
cells
We used popcorn balls
for the vacuole because
it was the best choice.
Author: Tucker Jenary

4. Cells make up all
living organisms
Smallest unit of life
 Often
calledbuilding block
of life
Author: Tucker Jenary

5. • We used a cake
pan as a cell
membrane.
• The cell
membrane of a
cell acts as a
barrier, just like
how our pan
protect the cake.
Author: Bender

7. We used a fruit rollup as the
Golgi body because it look like a
Golgi body if you fold it up.
The Golgi acts as a post office. It
packs useful materials and
transports them to other parts of
a cell

8. nucleus
The nucleus was a peach pit because it is in the
center and protected by outer layers. The
nucleus is like a brain, it controls all things in the
cell.

9. Lysosome
We used an m’m as a lysosome. We used
an m’m because it looks similar to it. A
lysosome’s function is to break down
materials.
Author: Dylan Brown

10. Mitochondria
We used a circus peanut as mitochondria
because it looks similar to it. Mitochondria's
function is a power plant. Author: Dylan Brown

11. Nuclear Membrane
We used a peach skin as
the nuclear membrane. We
used it because it protects
the peach. The function of Author: Dylan Brown
the nuclear membrane is to
protect the cell.

12. Nucleolus
We used the peach as the nucleolus because it had a
pit in it that would work as a nucleus. The purpose of
this is to protect the nucleus.

13. Rough ER
We used sour gummy worms because the sour
powder is rough like the shell of the rough ER. The
rough ER makes proteins.