Cell Passport: Individual Assessment Score

1. Each student will create a passport that will allow them to travel and explore
eleven different parts of the cell in this order:
Nucleus
Mitochondria
Ribosomes
Chloroplast
Golgi Apparatus
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Lysosome
Cell Wall
Cell Membrane
Cytoplasm
Vacuole

2. Each organelle needs to have its own page in the passport. LABEL the page
number of each Passport Page.
3. The passport needs to have a Front Cover Page that includes
Student Name
Name of the Cell City (Country)
Optional: Creative Passport Picture

4. The passport should be stapled, taped or glued together so that it looks like a
booklet

Example of a Passport page:


Name of the Organelle: ________________________________

Colored Drawing of the Organelle:




1. Function: (What is the function of this organelle in the cell?)
2. Location: (Is this organelle found in plant cells, animal cells or both?)
3. City Structure: (What structure in a city is most similar to this organelle be based upon its function?)
Page #
Inside Front Cover:
Describe how you became miniaturized ( 1-2 sentences)
Describe which cell are you entering firstanimal or plant and how are you able to
move between these two types of cells in your traveling. (2-3 sentences)
Inside Back Cover:
1. Which organelle is most interesting to you and why? (1-2 complete sentences)
2. How did this activity help you better understand cell structures? (1-2 sentences)

Rubric
Passport
Parts
4 3 2 1
Drawings 10-11 organelles are
drawn AND colored
7-9 organelles
are drawn AND
colored
4-6 organelles
are drawn AND
colored
1-3 organelles are
drawn AND colored
Functions All 11 functions are
present
Functions are
correct
Functions are
written in complete
sentences
9-10 functions
are present
Functions are
mostly correct
Functions are
written in
complete
sentences
7-8 functions
are present
Most
functions are
not correct
Functions are
written in
complete
sentences
Less than 6
functions are
present
Most functions are
not correct
Functions are not
written in complete
sentences
City
Structure
All city structures are
present and are
correct
7-9 city structures
are present and
are mostly correct
4-6 city structures
are present and
some are correct
1-3 city structures are
present and few are
correct
Inside Front
Cover
Describes
miniaturization
Describes travel
between plant and
animal cell
4-5 sentences

Describes
miniaturizatio
n
Describes
travel
between plant
and animal
cell
3-4
sentences

Does not
totally
miniaturizatio
n
Partly
describes
travel
between plant
and animal
cell
2-3 sentences

Does not describe
miniaturization
Does not describe
travel between
plant and animal
cell
1-2 sentences

Inside Back
Cover
Answers #1-2 using
complete
sentences
3-4 sentences

Answers #1-2
using
complete
sentences
2-3 sentences

Only answers
#1 or #2
Does not use
complete
sentences
1-2 sentences

Does not fully
answer #1 or #2