Minuscule But Mighty!

Remembering all the different structures and organelles in cells, what they look like and what their roles are, can be a struggle. It's one thing to remember what a cloud looks like and how clouds function in the water cycle because we frequently see them. But cells?! They are so tiny that they are not even visible to our naked eye!
 
The Ontario curriculum, however, requires Grade 8 students to be able to "identify structures and organelles in cells, including the nucleus, cell membrane, cell wall, chloroplasts, vacuole, mitochondria, and cytoplasm, and explain the basic functions of each" (p. 141). Knowing how animal, plant, and bacterial cells function is the first step in learning how to effectively care for our own bodies. And that we can all use more help with!

But how? Thanks to microscopes and advancing technology, we can have much more exposure to the cells in and around us. So to help expand your knowledge, Sheppard Software offers a gaming resource that provides you with general information about cells and with games and quizzes to develop your skills with identifying the cell's structures and organelles. 

It's time to play and learn!  

Click Here for Cell Games

Image Credit: University of Vermont. (No date). Animal Cell [Online Image] Retrieved from http://www.uvm.edu/~inquiryb/webquest/fa06/mvogenbe/.