Final Cell Wars Blog - Project Reflection

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Summary:

     All organelles have different functions to help the cell. The vacuole holds in waste and helps plants grow. The ribosomes create proteins which creates hair. Lysosomes breaks down waste, the golgi body sorts, modifies and delivers components for the cell, and peroxisomes breaks toxins such as hydrogen peroxide. The cell wall protects the cell and keeps the plant together, and the cell membrane is basically another layer of cells and protects everything. The cytoplasm moves materials and information and fills up the nucleus and the endoplasmic reticulum transports proteins to other cells.

Backwards Looking:

     Have you done a similar kind of work in the past (earlier in the year or in a previous grade; in school or out of school)? Yes, I did do a project that covered the topic of cells and organelles. This project was called 'The Organelle Trail'. In this project, you were assigned a partner and an organelle. With your partner, you must make a wanted sign for the organelle. In your wanted sign, you must have the 'Wanted: [Organelle]' text, a picture of the organelle, its function(s), its location in the cell, what it contains inside the organelle, and a brief description of it. In this project, I learned about the Cytoplasm and its properties and functions.

Inwards Looking:

     How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece or work? I thought that this project was pretty fun to do because I got to learn about the organelle that I was studying about (the mitochondria) and apply the information about the mitochondria into my posters, smears and video. The part that I enjoyed most in the project was making my smears and because I got to put my creativity into the smears (especially making the memes for the smears) and research and learn more about each organelle. I also enjoyed making the posters since they looked really nice at the end and gave information about the mitochondria. The part that I didn't really like was the creation of the video and presentation because the work on the video was a bit tedious and repetitive and I feel like I didn't really do a good job at editing it.

Outwards Looking:

     Did you do your work the way other people did theirs? In what ways did you do it differently? In what ways was your work or process similar? For the most part of the project, yes. I did do the project similar to other students. One thing that I did differently was instead of making a video informing people about my organelle, I made a song/video of my organelle. I saw that no one else made a song for their organelle. Another thing that I did that was different from classmates was that I didn't name my organelle. Many teams gave their organelles a name, such as Perry the Peroxisome, Camillo Golgi, etc. My team and I didn't really give our organelle a name. Again, for the most part of the project, we did the same things as other classmates. I made smears with memes and sources, posters with the same format (which was "Vote for [organelle]- [organelle does this and that]").

Forward Looking:

     What would you change if you had a chance to do this piece over again? If I was to do the Cell Wars project again, I would change a couple of things. One thing that I would like to change is the video type. The type of video that I made was a song, which didn't satisfy me. This is because I am not used to making songs and I feel like I would have done better on the video part of the project if I did not do a song, but instead a news report or skit, since I am pretty good at writing scripts for those. Another thing that I would like to redo for this project is the smears. I would've liked to make more smears, since I feel like I didn't make enough smears (I only made 2).

Vote:

      My vote for the Cell Wars is the Golgi Body. This is because the Golgi Body sorts, modifies, and ships proteins and components for organelles all around the cell. Although Golgi Apparatus causes Androgenesis, it is really rare. Without the Golgi Body, there is no protein packaging. Without protein packaging, organelles such as lysosomes would not have enough enzymes to function, and waste would build up in the cell.