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© 2014 Katie Garcia

CREATE YOUR OWN CELL MEMBRANE

Thank you for purchasing my “Creating Your Own Cell Membrane” activity. I

hope your students enjoy it just as much as mine did. For this activity your students will

color, cut, and glue in characters of the cell membrane like in the picture above. You will

have to decide if you want to use the version with cholesterol or no cholesterol.

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Mrs.G © 2014 Katie Garcia

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Directions to Create Cell Membrane

Step 1. Color the “Guardians”


Step 2. Cut out the “Guardians”

along the dotted lines

Step 3. Organize the “Guardians”

into 3 categories:

1.) the phospholipids that start with the word

“BOTTOM”


“TOP”

3.) the proteins that have no words

Step 4. Take the phospholipids that start with the word TOP and place them

in the outer portion of the circle BASED on the second word

For example:

This goes in the outer portion of the

circle in the CENTER

Continuing Step 4. Take the phospholipids that

start with the word TOP and place them in the outer

portion of the circle BASED on the second word

TOP CENTER

TO

P R

IGH

T

TOP BOTTOM

TO

P L

EF

T

Step 5. Check your work

Does it look like the picture below so far?

Step 6. Take the phospholipids that start with the word BOTTOM and

place them in the outer portion of the circle BASED on the second word

BOTTOM CENTER

BO

TTO

M L

EFT

BOTTOM BOTTOM




Step 8. Add in your proteins!

Step 9. If everything looks goods, cut off the words from your phospholipids & put them back in their position

Step 10. Now GLUE everything down and you are done!!! Great

job!!


Additional Notes: I like to go back in and have my students write the words CELL

MEMBRANE, label the parts of the cell membrane, write the definition of the cell

membrane, and list key words that describe the cell membrane (like that it is a fluid

mosaic and it’s semi-permeable). That is up to you.

Function: The cell membrane regulates what enters and leaves the cell and also provides

protection and support.


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Animal Cell

Paste in here © 2014 Katie Garcia

the Guardians

TOP CENTER

TOP

RIG

HT

TOP

LEF

T

BOTTOM BOTTOM


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Animal Cell - ANSWER KEY


EXTRA

Would you like to add in

cholesterol? Disregard directions &

answer key above and use the

directions & answer key below


Directions to Create Cell Membrane

Step 1. Color the figures on this

page


Step 2. Cut out the figures by cutting

along the dotted lines

Step 3. Organize the figures into

4 categories:


“BOTTOM”


“TOP”

3.) the proteins that have no words

Step 4. Take the phospholipids that start with the word TOP and place them

in the outer portion of the circle BASED on the second word

For example:

This goes in the outer portion of the

circle in the CENTER 4.) the cholesterols that you will be

using for step 11

Continuing Step 4. Take the phospholipids that

start with the word TOP and place them in the outer

portion of the circle BASED on the second word

TOP CENTER

TO

P R

IGH

T

TOP BOTTOM

TO

P L

EF

T



Step 6. Take the phospholipids that start with the word BOTTOM and

place them in the outer portion of the circle BASED on the second word

BOTTOM CENTER

BO

TTO

M L

EFT

BOTTOM BOTTOM




Step 8. Add in your proteins!

Step 9. If everything looks goods, cut off the words from your phospholipids & put them back in their position

Step 10. Now GLUE everything down

you are almost done!


Step 11. Add Cholesterol

Cut around each cholesterol

and place it in between

some of the phospholipids.

GLUE them! Now your DONE!! =)

TOP CENTER

TOP

RIG

HT

TO

P L

EFT

BOTTOM BOTTOM


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Animal Cell - ANSWER KEY


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