-Learn about the structure and function of organelles in plant and animal cells by building your own with materials found in your kitchen. The list below offers suggestions of what to use for each organelle, but feel free to use whatever you want/have available with similar shapes/sizes.
Materials
-Base: cake, large cookie, or similar flat object
-Nucleus: circular candy or fruit (grape, mini Oreo, small cookie)
-Nucleolus: M&Ms or kittles
-Rough ER: gummy worms with Nerds, Nerds rope
-Smooth ER: gummy worms
-Cytoplasm: frosting
-Mitochondria: Gushers or other fruit snack
-Lysosomes:jelly beans
-Cell Membrane: icing, licorice
-Chloroplast: green Tic Tacs
-Ribosomes: Nerds
-Cell Wall: mini marshmallows
-Vacuoles: Gushers for animal cell, blue icing for plant cell
-Vesicles: Gushers
-Golgi Apparatus: Fruit by the Foot, Air Heads sour
-Toothpicks and paper (labeling)
Cisco Gregg Epinosa and Liz Chartier: Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Cornell University
For more information on EYH at Cornell, please visit https://www.eyh.cornell.edu/
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