What components make your cells unique? In this simulation, you will learn to distinguish the structures and internal organelles of prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Physical structures of the four basic animal cell types will be highlighted and the function and importance of each internal organelle will be discussed.
Investigate a bear’s death
Hikers have discovered a dead bear and it’s your mission to determine why it died. First, freely explore what types of organisms are present in the forest surrounding the bear and observe real microscopic images of their tissues. Determine whether the organisms are unicellular or multicellular and sort the organisms according to whether they have a cell membrane or cell wall. Finally, build the deadly organism by building 4 cells representative of each basic type of animal tissue: neural, epithelial, muscle and connective tissue.
Apply cell theory
Students will be introduced to each principle of cell theory and apply it to understand how the cellular organization of animal cells in the forest compares to algae, mushrooms, plant roots, and leaves. An incoming storm will help you understand the implication of having a cell wall. After additionally categorizing the organisms as prokaryotes or eukaryotes, you will then build larger-than-life versions of each of the four animal cell types on the holofloor.
Challenged to choose the correct internal organelles for the animal cells, you will learn about the function and importance of the nucleus, ER, cytoskeleton, Golgi apparatus, lysosomes, ribosomes, and mitochondria. Then, determine which cellular structures are unique to specific animal cells such as sarcomeres, tight junctions, axons, dendrites and the extracellular matrix.
Uncover the mystery animal
Put together everything you have learned about organelles and cellular structures to build each type of cell in the mystery organism. Will you find out what killed the bear?
This short, targeted simulation is adapted from the full-length “Cell Structure: Cell theory and internal organelles” simulation.
In this simulation, you will learn about the structures and internal organelles of animal cells. Physical structures of the four basic animal cell types will be highlighted and the function and importance of each internal organelle will be discussed. Oh, and you will have to take a tissue sample from inside the mouth of a bear. Watch out for the sharp teeth!
Investigate a bear’s death
Hikers have discovered a dead bear on their trail and it’s your mission to determine why it died. Maybe it was poisoned or maybe it died of underlying causes such as old age? Standing in the middle of a secluded forest, you must build up the courage to take a sample from inside the bear’s mouth. Then, build the potentially deadly organism by building 4 cells representative of each basic type of animal tissue: neural, epithelial, muscle and connective tissue.
Build the cells
Students will be challenged to choose the correct internal organelles for the animal cells. You will learn about the function and importance of the nucleus, ER, cytoskeleton, Golgi apparatus, lysosomes, ribosomes, and mitochondria. Then, determine which cellular structures are unique to specific animal cells such as sarcomeres, tight junctions, axons, dendrites and the extracellular matrix.
Uncover the mysterious death of the bear Put together everything you have learned about organelles and cellular structures to build each type of cell in the mystery organism. At the end, will you be able to figure out what killed the bear and uncover the mystery?
Video Transcript
All right, so this is a problem. 47. And it's asking us to draw a steroid nucleus. Now, I'm not going to draw our particular story. I'm just going to draw the baseline for all of them. Which is going to have 3, 6 carbon rings. Bear with me, this might take a little while to have specially directed bonds. They're spaced out and depending on the steroid, I have to different mm confirmations Cis and trans. And that just depends on where the bonds are. So, for this one, I'm gonna make something connected here. I'm gonna put in our age group here and a car box silic acid here. A double bond here. Yeah. So, as you can see these are sis fonds because they're on the same side. What's your baseline? What you're really looking for whenever you draw these? It's just the skeleton. Yeah. Who is going to be another space here, and then 123456. So, you're gonna have 36 carbon And 15 carbon. And then I'm just going to put over here stuff connected. Okay, Okay. Depending on the steroid, but here is just your steroid nucleus