Year 7 Science: I have a sweet tooth for cells!

Have you ever thought ‘oh no, these cells again?!’. We always talk about cells in Biology, and refer to them as the building block of life but, what are they? They are super complex and it takes time to fully understand them. They may also appear weird and quite boring. But, that is only because you have not learnt them with our Year 7 Scientists.

Our Year 7 girls learnt the main components of cells in class. and they used what they just learnt to model a cell using lollies, biscuits, jelly beans and sour strips. Think about it: the mitochondrion has the shape of a bean so what is better than using a jelly bean to represent it?

The cell membrane is a layer outside the cell, so how about using a string pulled from a rainbow sour strip? And what about the nucleus with DNA? Nothing better than some cake sprinkles to represent DNA and some snake lollies to represent the membrane around the nucleus. Because we all know: a spoonful of sugar helps the learning go far!

– Martina Stolzi
Science Teacher

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