Introduction to Cell Anatomy: Cell Organelles
Memorizing Songs
Duration: 15 min
This is a great activity for introducing cell anatomy to students. Memorization is one of the hardest things a student can do and can become really frustrating. But for some reason the brain is quite adept at quickly memorizing words put into verse with a melody, aka music!
This is the song I wrote (re-wrote) to help students memorize the names and basic function of the major cell organelles.
Cell Organelles
Hello there, my DNA
Inside the nucleus, you are contained
You send signals to the Ribosome
Which makes up proteins, encoded by genes
Contained in membranes, they’re your cell personnel
They work as a team to serve the cell well,
You gotta love’em they’re your cell organelles
Proteins are sent via vesicles
In and out, and all around the cell
Vesicles sent by the Rough ER
Go down the smooth, to the Golgi Body
Contained in membranes, they’re your cell personnel
They work as a team to serve the cell well,
You gotta love ’em they’re your cell organelles
Chloroplasts make sugars in plants,
and the Mitochondria is the power plant
The Cytoskeleton gives it its shape,
while the cytoplasm fills it up like a grape
Contained in membranes, they’re your cell personnel
They work as a team to serve the cell well,
You gotta love ’em they’re your cell organelles
Re-writing lyrics
Next, I used half sheets containing two lines of lyrics, and distributed them to pairs of students. Students worked together to re write their two lyrics into their own words.
When everyone was finished we compiled everyone’s answer into a word document. One column had the lyrics to the song, and one column had the student-friendly translation. Copies were then given to each student.
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Memorizing Songs
Duration: 15 min
This is a great activity for introducing cell anatomy to students. Memorization is one of the hardest things a student can do and can become really frustrating. But for some reason the brain is quite adept at quickly memorizing words put into verse with a melody, aka music!
This is the song I wrote (re-wrote) to help students memorize the names and basic function of the major cell organelles.
Cell Organelles
Hello there, my DNA
Inside the nucleus, you are contained
You send signals to the Ribosome
Which makes up proteins, encoded by genes
Contained in membranes, they’re your cell personnel
They work as a team to serve the cell well,
You gotta love’em they’re your cell organelles
Proteins are sent via vesicles
In and out, and all around the cell
Vesicles sent by the Rough ER
Go down the smooth, to the Golgi Body
Contained in membranes, they’re your cell personnel
They work as a team to serve the cell well,
You gotta love ’em they’re your cell organelles
Chloroplasts make sugars in plants,
and the Mitochondria is the power plant
The Cytoskeleton gives it its shape,
while the cytoplasm fills it up like a grape
Contained in membranes, they’re your cell personnel
They work as a team to serve the cell well,
You gotta love ’em they’re your cell organelles
Re-writing lyrics
Next, I used half sheets containing two lines of lyrics, and distributed them to pairs of students. Students worked together to re write their two lyrics into their own words.
When everyone was finished we compiled everyone’s answer into a word document. One column had the lyrics to the song, and one column had the student-friendly translation. Copies were then given to each student.
