How to Make a Plant Cell Model Out of Food

When teaching younger students about botany or plant physiology, it can be tedious to try and maintain their attentions during the lesson. Fortunately, by providing your students with a hands-on project related to plant physiology, you can capture your students attention more easily. One such activity includes creating a plant cell out of food items, which the students can then enjoy as a tasty snack. To make a plant cell out of food, it is important to know which items of food will be transformed into which parts of the plant cell.

Things You'll Need

  • Pizza dough
  • Pizza sauce
  • Pepperoni
  • Black olives
  • Mushroom slices
  • Green pepper slices
  • Rolling pin
  • Cookie sheet
  • Olive oil
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Instructions

    • 1

      Roll out 1 cup of pizza dough onto a cookie sheet that has been lightly greased with olive oil. Make sure to roll out the dough in a rectangular shape, which represents the structured borders of a plant cells, which has rigid cell walls.

    • 2

      Pour 1 cup of pizza sauce onto the dough. This represents the cytoplasm of the plant cell.

    • 3

      Place one pepperoni onto the pizza dough. This represents the nucleus of the plant cell.

    • 4

      Place a black olive slice into the center of the pepperoni. This represents the nucleolus of the plant cell.

    • 5

      Place slices of green pepper onto the pizza dough. This represents the chloroplasts in the plant cell.

    • 6

      Place chopped mushrooms onto the pizza dough. These will represent the Golgi bodies in the plant cell.

    • 7

      Bake the plant cell pizza in a 350 degree oven for 10 minutes, and enjoy.

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