1. Cell Organelles

2. What’s a Cell Organelle?
Humans have organs that do specific, important jobs.
Cell Organelles are a lot like Human Organs.

3. Job: Break down food after you eat it.
Organ: Stomach
Job: Break down food after you eat it.

4. Organ: Heart
Job: Pump Blood (oxygen) through the body.

5. Job: Clean blood & remove waste from body (pee).
Organ: Kidneys
Job: Clean blood & remove waste from body (pee).

6. What are Cell Organelles?
Inside a human, there are organs that do special jobs to keep the human alive.
Inside a cell, there are organelles that do special jobs to keep the cell alive.

7. Cell Organelles
Cell Organelle: a structure inside of a cell that does a special job to keep the cell alive.

9. Nucleus
Controls functions of the cell.
Holds genetic information.

10. Nucleus - City Hall
The nucleus is responsible for controlling the rest of cell just like a city hall is where the city is governed from.

11. Chromosomes - Blueprint
The chromosomes are the DNA of a cell which is like a blueprint for a building or structure.

12. Endoplasmic Reticulum - Roads
The Endoplasmic Reticulum is like roads in a city, transporting proteins around the cell.

13. Ribosomes
- Make proteins.

14. Ribosomes - Shops
Ribosomes are like small shops in a city. The ribosomes produce proteins like shops produce important things for the city.

15. Receive proteins, package them & send them to other parts of the cell.
Golgi Apparatus
Receive proteins, package them & send them to other parts of the cell.

16. Golgi Apparatus – Post Office
The Golgi Appartus is like the post office, packaging & sending proteins to other parts of the cell.

17. Mitochondria - Powerhouse
- Makes energy that fuels the cell.

18. Mitochondria – Power plant
The mitochondria is like a power plant because it produces energy like a power plant does for a city.

19. Regulates what goes in & out of a cell.
Cell Membrane
Regulates what goes in & out of a cell.

20. Cell Membrane - Fence
The Cell membrane is like a fence, because it let’s some things in but keeps others out.

21. Cytoplasm - Grass
The cytoplasm is like the grass in a town, all over and surrounding all the parts of a cell/city.

22. Vacuole
Water & garbage storage.
* Plants have BIG water vacuoles!

23. Vacuole – Garbage collector
The vacuole is like a garbage collector getting rid of unwanted waste from the cell.

24. Chloroplast (Only Plants)
Site of photosynthesis.

25. Chloroplast – Solar Collector
The Chloroplast (only in plant cells) convert sunlight into usable energy.

26. Cell Wall (Only Plants)
Gives structure to a plant cell.

27. Cell Wall – City Limits
The cell wall (a plant cell) of a cell is like the city limits of a cell giving the cell/city its shape.