Chain Factory

As a class we were given a description of a factory and we were each given different roles to play inside the factory. It was confusing at first, but after we broke apart each of the roles it made much more sense. Once we were all "acting" out our different roles it was pretty chaotic at first, but we all started getting in a flow and everything was moving smoothly and pretty quickly. I was the custodian and my job was to pick up all of the energy units each of the people would use. I was constantly walking around finding energy units which represents how much energy the cell actually uses. I represented the lysosomes in the cell.

This activity really helped me understand the concepts of how the cell works. It made it much easier for me to picture the activity in the cell as appose to just talking about what the cell does. I also think this would be very helpful for young students that are learning about the cell because it puts it in different context which is helpful sometimes.

It also amazed me that we learned about all the different parts of the cell in under 2 hours because I remember learning about the cell in 7th grade and we spend weeks learning about it. I would definitely use this analogy in my classroom.