Admin webmdave Posted April 20, 2009 Admin Share Posted April 20, 2009 It was early spring of 1998 and I was student teaching in a 7th grade Life Science class. Now, I’m not a biology person - not certified to teacher it at all - but here I was trying to teach kids about the parts of the cell to the tune of Gilligan’s Island. Desperate times called for desperate measures. The nucleus is the control center,the ribosomes make proteinsThe endoplasmic reticulum,is the cell’s transport system The lysosomes are the clean-up crew,they break down the cell’s waste,The mitochondria are powerhouses,they make the cell’s energythey make the cell’s energy Vacuoles are storage tanks,the cell membrane lets things in and outThese parts float in the cytoplasm,it’s a jelly-like material—— a jelly-like material These were the parts of an animal cell,plants have a few things different,There’s a cell wall—– for their support,They have chloroplast—– to make food,no lysosomes,usually one vacuole and it’s real large,In a plant cell Not only did I write the song but I also recorded myself singing it. Here is the oldest audio recording of me ever posted online. (I think my voice even had more hair back then.) Download the audio directly: gilliganscell.mp3 View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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