Does anyone have any ideas on how to make an animal cell model (as in a school project)?
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I'm a biology teacher, and a cell model is a project every year.\n\nUse a HARD beachball about the size of a basketball....or a cheap dimestore basket ball. Cut in in half and use thin wires to suspend the various organelles inside.
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Try this , it really helped me in my first few lectures in cell bio , such as DNA and RNA . Loads of animations and stuff ! \n\nhttp://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAtranscription.html
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Have enough picture/word cards of animals/plants in a food chain for each student to have one.  You need a big ball of yarn or string.  Put the students in a circle.  The lowest person on the food chain starts.  They hold the string and throw the ball to the next highest person on the chain (preferably, they are not sitting in order).  That person holds on to the string and tosses the ball to the next person.  \n\nAt the end, you've formed a web of interconnected species.  To simulate environmental changes, have a few students drop their part of the web.  It will fall and dissinigrate showing how a healthy ecosystem is dependant on all of its occupants.\n\nHope that helps.
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try this :\n\nhttp://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/
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uh, well, one time my friend and I had to do a project like that.  We got two of those clear bodies (you know, the mannequins they have that display clothes.)  You can get clear ones at Sam's club for free, if you know where that is.  We made a model of the body.  Like, we used straws for the intestines and a bowl for the stomach.  On the other body, we used sharpie and labeled the different parts.  (We also drew them)  Then we got a medicine dropper and put water mixed with food coloring in it.  We poured the water/food coloring down the first mannequin's esophagus.  Everyone could see it going through.  It was really cool and we got an A+!\n\nAlso, explain what's happening as the water/food coloring goes down.  Don't forget to put a bowl underneath, or else the water/food coloring will spill.  I guarantee this will get you a good grade.
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I jsut did the same project with my 13 year old son.\nThis is what we used\n\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/cell/anatomy.GIF\n\nwe had to make a model
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Perhaps the illustrated link and description will help you.  Good luck with your project.
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http://educate-yourself.org/fe/fejoewatercell.shtml\nI'm unsure of anything that describes how to really make one.\nThis site tries, but it's rather goofy to follow. Maybe you'll have better luck that I would.
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put bacteria under a microscope and hook it\nup to a pc and project  it would be COOL!!!!!!!
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http://sun.menloschool.org/~cweaver/cells/
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Go to http://www.homeschooltools.com.  They have entire experiment kits for purchase and lesson plans online.
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An animal cell is a form of eukaryotic cell which make up many tissues in animals. The animal cell is distinct from other eukaryotes, most notably plant cells, as they lack cell walls and chloroplasts, and they have smaller vacuoles. Due to the lack of a rigid cell wall, animal cells appear to be circular (though are often deformed by surrounding cells) under microscopes - in three dimensions the cells are normally spherical.
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Try this:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(biology)\n\nhttp://health-pictures.com/images/Human-cell.jpg
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A classic, but great visual experiment is sucking a hard boiled egg into an erlenmyer flask. It is done by using the principles of the kinetic theory of matter.\nAnother cool project might be doing something with dry ice. Find a place that you can get dry ice and do fun stuff with it, like create smoke, put bubble solution in water and then drop in dry ice to make bubbles that, when you pop, let out white smoke.\n\nAnother idea might be to do some cool colorful reactions. Make some dye molecules or something.\n\nHope one of these ideas works for you.
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http://www.cellsalive.com/cell_cycle.htm\n\nThis is a neat interactive website! Check it out and let me know how it works for you!
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A model of a cell is a good choice.
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i did this, i used a ball of styrofome( er however you spell that) for the whole cell, and a smaller ball for the nucleus. then i just found a buncha little things for everything else. i used toothpicks with little tags on the end to label the parts