In this Internet Scavenger Hunt, you will be answering questions about cells. There are three parts to this search. The answers can be found in the three sites you will be linked to. Read the questions and click on the link that follows to find the answers. Write your answers on a separate piece of paper. Use your back button to return to the hunt and finish other questions.

Part One

Arriving at the site below, follow these directions:

1. Click on the zebra.
2. In the "Organelles" section, click on each organelle (except Golgi bodies and vesicles).
3. Answer the questions for each section on a separate piece of paper.
4. After completing each section, hit "return" at the bottom of the screen.
5. Click on "Return to the menu to see other living things" at the bottom of the screen when done with animals to move on to plant organelles.
6. Click on the plant.
7. Go to "cell wall" and "chloroplast" and answer the questions.

Animal Questions:

Cell Membrane

1. Which products come into the cell?
2. What leaves the cell?

   Cytoplasm

3. What is the cytoplasm?

   Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)

4. What is the ER like?
5. What is the difference between smooth and rough ER?

   Lysosomes

6. What do lysosomes have in them?
7. What do lysosomes do?

   Mitochondria

8. What do mitochondria do?

   Nucleus

9. What does the nucleus contain?

   Ribosomes

10. Where can ribosomes be found?

     

Plant Questions:

Vacuole

1. What do vacuoles do?

   Cell Wall

2. What does the cell wall do?

   Chloroplast

3. What makes plants green?

Using analogies to describe cell organelles

For each question below, give the name of the organelle that is described by the statement.

1. Who is the manager?
2. What structure is the "power plant" of the cell?
3. Which structure is the "wrecking ball"?
4. Which one acts like a gate?
5. Which one is like a protein factory?
6. Which one is the "suitcase" of the cell?
7. Which one is like jello?
8. Which structure is like a system of conveyor belts?
9. Which structure is like a brick wall?
10. Which one is a photosynthesis factory?

http://vilenski.com/science/safari/menu/menu.html

Part Two

1. Practice identifying organelles with the diagrams on the site you will be linked to.
2. After practicing the diagram activity, click on the names of all the cell organelles
3. Read the information in each section.
4. When done, click on the quiz.
5. Take the quiz.
6. When done with quiz have your teacher write your score on your answer sheet.
7. If you get more than 5 wrong, before you call your teacher over, take the quiz again.

http://www.tvdsb.on.ca/westmin/science/sbi3a1/Cells/cells.htm

Part Three

When arriving at the Brain Pop site, allow some time for the cell movie to load. If you click on the link and are not taken to the "cell" movie, select it from the drop down menu on the main site. As you view the movie brief facts are flashed across the bottom. Question 8 asks for 2 of these facts. Use the movie controls to pause, play, or rewind if necessary.

1. The movie says you are divided into sections, what are they called?
2. What groups do cells live in?
3. Name the 4 parts of a typical cell?
4. What is the jelly-like fluid in a cell called?
5. What does a cell membrane do?
6. What acts like the brain for the cell?
7. Where do cells make energy?
8. What are 2 facts that are given?
9. Draw pictures of the muscle cell and red blood cell as shown in the movie.
10. How many cells do you have in your body?
11. Cells are called the __________ ____________ (two words) of life.

http://www.brainpop.com/health/immune/cells/index.weml