Plant and Animal Cell
Activities for the Smart Board
I. What do animal and plant cells look like?
A. Cells Alive!
This site will take us on an interactive journey into a plant and animal cell. Try your hand at assembling a virtual animal cell and virtual plant cell jigsaw puzzle.
Look closely inside a cell. You can zoom in and cut the cell parts to get a look inside each part.
C. The Cell Visualization Project
Take an animated look inside a white blood cell.
II. Cell Structure and Function
A. Plant and Animal Cells Structure and Function
Online 3D simulation. Cool website!
Watch animal cells crawl across a slide using a microscope. Watch leaf cell chloroplasts and mitochondria move around on a glass slide.
D. Interactive Parts of a Cell Site
III. Micro-organisms
A. Interactive micro-organism trip.
What are micro-organisms? Can they be helpful or harmful?
B. Microbe Zoo
Find out what kind of microbes live in your house.
IV. Virtual Laboratory Tours
A. Take a tour of the Cell and Organism Bio-engineering Laboratory
B. Use the Virtual Electron Microscope to identify types of cells
V. Cell Activities and Quizzes