Cell Parts
Plant or Animal?
What am I?
Fix the Model
Challenge
100

What part controls what enters and leaves the cell?

Cell Membrane

100

Which type of cell has a cell wall?

Plant

100

I am the jelly-like material inside a cell.

Cytoplasm

100

A student labels the jelly-like material inside a plant cell as the cell membrane. What should the label be?

Cytoplasm

100

Name ONE part found in both cells.

Nucleus, cytoplasm, or cell membrane  

200

What part controls the activities of the cell?

Nucleus

200

Which type of cell contains chloroplasts?

Plant

200

I help a plant make food using sunlight.  

Chloroplast

200

A student points to the outer boundary of an animal cell and labels it cytoplasm. What should the label be?

Cell Membrane 

200

Name ALL THREE parts found in both cells.

Nucleus, cytoplasm, cell membrane

300

What TWO structures are found in plant cells but not animal cells?

Cell wall & chloroplasts

300

A cell has a nucleus, cytoplasm, membrane, wall, and chloroplasts. What is it?

Plant

300

I surround a plant cell and provide support.

Cell Wall

300

A plant cell model has all five structures, but the student labels the cell membrane as the cell wall and the cell wall as the cell membrane. What needs to be fixed?

Switch the two labels. The cell wall is the outermost layer; the cell membrane is inside it.

300

A cell has a nucleus, cytoplasm, and membrane but no wall or chloroplasts. What is it?

Animal Cells

400

Which structure would you examine to determine whether a cell can make food using sunlight?

Chloroplast

400

You see a cell with a cell membrane AND cell wall. Plant or animal? Explain

A: Plant; animal cells don't have cell walls.

400

I am found in BOTH cells, but a cell wall may be outside of me in one type of cell.

Cell Membrane
400

A student creates a plant cell with a nucleus, cytoplasm, cell membrane, cell wall, and chloroplasts. They claim the nucleus makes food for the cell using sunlight. Correct their model explanation.

Chloroplasts help the plant cell make food using sunlight; the nucleus controls the cell's activities.

400

A cell has chloroplasts. Without seeing anything else, what can you conclude?

It is a plant cell.

500

Name all FIVE cell structures you need to know AND tell which are plant-only

Nucleus, cytoplasm, cell membrane, cell wall, chloroplasts; wall & chloroplasts are plant-only.

500

Two cells both have nuclei, cytoplasm, and cell membranes. Cell A also has a cell wall and chloroplasts. Identify A and B

A = plant; B = animal.

500

I am NOT a nucleus, I am NOT plant-only, and I surround the contents of both plant and animal cells. What am I?

Cell Membrane  

500

A student draws a plant cell. They correctly include a cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, and chloroplasts, but they draw the cell membrane as the outermost layer and the cell wall directly inside of it.

What is wrong with the model, and how should it be corrected?

The cell wall and cell membrane are in the wrong positions. The cell wall should be the outermost layer, with the cell membrane located just inside the cell wall.

500

Draw a correct plant cell AND animal cell and label every structure we've studied.

A: Plant—wall, membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, chloroplasts. Animal—membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus.