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Inside the Cell

By: Tyler Alexander

Narrator: The excited class sits on the school bus waiting to enter the cell. They sit outside of the whale
sharks brain cell that they will soon be inside of. This cell is long and has many limbs that look like
branches on a tree. This is to help the cell connect to the other cells in the nervous system to relay
messages across the body of the shark. Mrs. Steininger is giving a lecture at the front of the bus.

Mrs. Steininger: “Ok class, buckle up because we are now going to be passing through the cell
membrane which controls what goes in and out of the cell. It will be a bumpy ride so try not to fall out of
the bus.”

DJ: “Does the cell membrane do anything else?”

Mrs. Steininger: “Yes, it also helps with cell communication and cell signaling. “

Narrator: The bus proceeds to travel through the cell membrane and only had a few injuries to the class.
The bus however transformed into a submarine to make it possible to travel through the cytoplasm.

Carson: “Why are we in jello?”

Tyler: “I think this is the cytoplasm.”

DJ: “Yeah, it’s the jelly like substance that fills the cell and contains all the organelles.”

Mrs. Steininger: “Very good DJ. You get a ticket. Now could someone tell me where the nucleus is?”

Tyler: “It is the one that looks like a ball with a dot on it. It also contains the cell’s DNA and the controls
for making important molecules.”

Mrs. Steininger: “Good, but the nucleus is actually the dot and what is surrounding it is the nuclear
envelope. Also, the nucleus contains the nucleolus. This is a small dense region that ribosomes are
formed in.”

Belle: “What are ribosomes?”

DJ: “I think they are those little dots. I’m also pretty sure they are made of RNA and protein.”

Mrs. Steininger: “That’s right again DJ. Man you are on fire today! The ribosomes also do not have a cell
membrane and that’s why you can see them floating around the cell freely.”

Ashton: “What are those folded things?”

Carson: “And how come the one has little dots on it?”

Mrs. Steininger: “Those are the Endoplasmic Reticulums. The one without dots on it is the smooth ER.
This one makes lipids and also breaks down toxic materials. The other one is the rough ER and is covered
in ribosomes. This organelle is closer to the nucleus and packages proteins to send to the Golgi
Apparatus. Can anyone tell me what the Golgi Apparatus is?”

(No one raises their hand)


Mrs. Steininger: “Zack?”

Zack: “Uhhhh I don’t know.”

Mrs. Steininger: “Lucy?”

Lucy: “Doesn’t it sort proteins and send them to the rest of the cell?”

Mrs. Steininger: “Exactly! It actually releases a small part of itself to transport these proteins to the rest
of the cell. Can someone tell me what this is called?”

Tyler: “The Vesicle.”

Mrs. Steininger: “Very good Tyler!”

Carson: “What are those things that look like baked beans?”

Mrs. Steininger: “Those are Mitochondria. This organelle breaks down sugar and releases ATP. The cell
then uses this to do work. Now here’s an opportunity for a ticket. Can anyone tell me what the organelle
is that has a large saclike structure and what it does?”

Brooke: “Would that be the vacuole?”

Mrs. Steininger: “Yes it would. And what does it do?”

Brooke: “It’s where materials are stored such as water, salts, proteins, and carbohydrates.”

Mrs. Steininger: “Very good. Here Dom, could you pass this back to Brooke? Any Questions?”

Kate: “What is the difference between the Vacuole and the lysosomes?”

Mrs. Steininger: “The lysosomes digest food particles, wastes, and foreign invaders. The Vacuole
however just stores the nutrients. Does that answer your question?”

Kate: “Yes, thank you.”

Mrs. Steininger: “Actually, if u look out the window to your right you will see lysosomes. They are the
spherical-bag like structures. They are also filled with enzymes to help break down those materials.”

Narrator: “As the students near the end of their field trip they notice something towards the outside of
the cell that looks like a web like structure.”

Tyler: “What is that?”

Mrs. Stieninger: “That is the cytoskeleton. It keeps the cell membrane from collapsing and gives the cell
its shape.”

Carson: “Can I climb on it?”

Mrs. Steininger: “If you climbed on it would probably collapse the cell and trap us here.”

Carson: “So can I climb on it?”


Mrs. Stieninger: “Nooooo”

Narrator: The class managed to escape the field trip with minimum injuries and only lost one student
who showed up the next day. All in all the students had fun until they came back and had to do a 7 page
packet and an essay on every thing they learned.

The End

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