7th Sci - Jingle Cell Rock: A Holly Jolly Organelle Odyssey

A Holly Jolly Organelle Odyssey

Jingle Cell Rock

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Once upon a winter's eve in the magical land of Scienceville, the festive cheer was in full swing as snowflakes danced in the brisk air. Something extraordinary was happening in the science workshop, where the brilliant Elf, Frosty the Snowman, and even Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer were concocting a magical science maze.

But this wasn't just any maze—it was the Jingle Cell Rock: A Holly Jolly Organelle Odyssey Maze! As they worked tirelessly to spread holiday joy, they stumbled upon an enchanted portal that transported them into the microscopic world of cell organelles. Each organelle had transformed into a winter wonderland room, guarded by iconic holiday characters.

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Now, it's up to you, our fearless 7th-grade scientists, to embark on this holly jolly adventure! As you journey through the maze, help Rudolph sort out the cell-ular jumble, build Frosty's freeze frame, assist Elf in motion lab extravaganzas, and tackle challenges from other festive friends. Can you make it through all eight levels and bring the magic of science and the holidays together in a joyous celebration? Let the Jingle Cell Rock begin!

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Jingle Cell Rock

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Maze Menu

Navigate through 8 levels of merry challenges, each hosted by a jolly friend from the holidays. From Rudolph's cell-ular jumble to Santa's balance check-up, your scientific prowess will be put to the test!

Rudolph's Cell-ular Jumble

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Rudolph needs your help to sort out the cell organelles' names and functions! In this activity, students will match organelle names with their functions in a digital card-sorting game. Each correct match will bring Rudolph's nose a little brighter!

Level 1 Objective

Objective - 7.12D - Differentiate between structure and function in plant and animal cell organelles, including cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, cytoplasm, mitochondrion, chloroplast, and vacuole

Sort the vocabulary term cards to match their defintion. Once sorted, use the letters in order for your L1 code.

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Bravo, bright minds! Your sorting skills shine as bright as my nose! Keep the science spirit aglow!

Level 1 Complete

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Navigate through 8 levels of merry challenges, each hosted by a jolly friend from the holidays. From Rudolph's cell-ular jumble to Santa's balance check-up, your scientific prowess will be put to the test!

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Frosty’s Freeze Frame

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Frosty wants to understand more about the structures and functions of cell organelles. Help Frosty by answering questions to build Frosty's perfect snowman body. The faster you complete, the cooler Frosty becomes!

Level 2 Objective

Objective - 7.12D - Differentiate between structure and function in plant and animal cell organelles, including cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, cytoplasm, mitochondrion, chloroplast, and vacuole

Which cell structure would carry out the function of photosynthesis?

Select the correct answer to each question. You will earn a piece of a snowman for each correct answer. Collect them all to help Frosty with his mission!

Cell B, Structure 1

Level 2Q1

Cell B, Structure 6

Cell A, Structure 8

Cell A, Structure 4

The cell wall is much thinner and more flexible than the cell membrane

Level 2Q2

Cell walls are only found in primitive cells and are never found in plant or animal cells

The cell wall is found in plant cells but not animal cells

The cell wall is found in both plant and animal cells

Both the cell membrane and the cell wall act to protect the organelles within a cell. Which of the following best describes how the cell wall is different from the cell membrane?

Select the correct answer to each question. You will earn a piece of a snowman for each correct answer. Collect them all to help Frosty with his mission!

The organelle pictured -

Select the correct answer to each question. You will earn a piece of a snowman for each correct answer. Collect them all to help Frosty with his mission!

Is used for energy production in animal cells only

Level 2Q3

Is used for energy production in plant cells only

Is used for energy production in both plant and animal cells

Is used for storage of waste products in both plant and animal cells

Which cell structure functions as the control center for cellular operations?

Select the correct answer to each question. You will earn a piece of a snowman for each correct answer. Collect them all to help Frosty with his mission!

Cell A and B, Structure 1

Level 2Q4

Cell A, Structure 4

Cell B, Structure 6

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Plants use energy from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce sugar. Which structure is found only in plant cells and helps plants capture energy from sunlight?

Select the correct answer to each question. You will earn a piece of a snowman for each correct answer. Collect them all to help Frosty with his mission!

Vacuole

Level 2Q5

Chloroplast

Nucleus

Cell membrane

The chloroplasts absorb less light energy.

Level 2Q6

The mitochondria change shape.

The cell wall thickens.

The vacuoles shrink.

What will cause plant leaves to wilt?

Select the correct answer to each question. You will earn a piece of a snowman for each correct answer. Collect them all to help Frosty with his mission!

provide support for the cell

Level 2Q7

use energy from sunlight to make sugar

control substances that enter and exit the cell

regulate substances that enter and exit the cell

A diagram of a plant cell is shown in the image.The function of the chloroplast is to—

Select the correct answer to each question. You will earn a piece of a snowman for each correct answer. Collect them all to help Frosty with his mission!

Now that's a COOL snowman!

Level 2 Complete

SNOWAY!

You've built a snow-tacular understanding of cell structures! Your frosty success warms my icy heart!

Your password for level 3 is SNOWAY!

Looks like Frosty's facts got a bit tangled in the snow. Better check your science knowledge and see where things may have gotten a little frostbitten!"

Oh Snowflake!

Try again!

Looks like Frosty's facts got a bit tangled in the snow. Better check your science knowledge and see where things may have gotten a little frostbitten!

Oh Snowflake!

Try again!

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Maze Menu

Navigate through 8 levels of merry challenges, each hosted by a jolly friend from the holidays. From Rudolph's cell-ular jumble to Santa's balance check-up, your scientific prowess will be put to the test!

Elf's Motion Meaning Magic!

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Santa's workshop needs some motion experts! Help the Elf to conduct an experiment to demonstrate the your understanding of the meaning of vocabulary terms related to forces affecting motion in organisms. Elf will guide them through activities involving seedlings, turgor pressure, and more.

Level 3 Objective

Objective - 7.7B - demonstrate and illustrate forces that affect motion in organisms such as the emergence of seedlings, turgor pressure, geotropism, and circulation of blood.

Find the hidden words and match them to their definition. Write the word that matches each number on your answer sheet and follow the instructions to get your L3 code! Click the next button when you're ready to enter the code!

Level 3Clue

You've built a Ho ho ho-ray! Your motion magic is as delightful as the twinkle in Santa's eye. You're on the nice list for science excellence!

Level 3 Complete

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Maze Menu

Navigate through 8 levels of merry challenges, each hosted by a jolly friend from the holidays. From Rudolph's cell-ular jumble to Santa's balance check-up, your scientific prowess will be put to the test!

Heat vs. Snow Showdown

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The Heat and Snow Misers are in a friendly competition! Engage in a virtual experiment to explore how forces affect motion, focusing on thermodynamics. Choose an answer, complete the challenges, and win the day!

Level 4 Objective

Objective - 7.7B - demonstrate and illustrate forces that affect motion in organisms such as the emergence of seedlings, turgor pressure, geotropism, and circulation of blood.

Both are the result of pushing force

How are forces associated with germination and turgor pressure similar?

Read each question carefully, then choose the correct answer. Write the number of the answer choice on your response sheet. You will add the answers for 1 - 3 to get your level 4 code.

Level 4Q1

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Both are the result of a pulling force

Both are the result of gravitational force

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A student placed a flower in a vase but forgot to add water. The picture shows the flower’s appearance after a few days. What force/s contributed to the flower’s appearance?

Read each question carefully, then choose the correct answer. Write the number of the answer choice on your response sheet. You will add the answers for 1 - 3 to get your level 4 code.

Level 4Q2

Loss of turgor pressure

Geotropism

Loss of turgor pressure and gravity

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towards the sky

Geotropism is a response of plants that causes the roots of seeds to grow –

Read each question carefully, then choose the correct answer. Write the number of the answer choice on your response sheet. You will add the answers for 1 - 3 to get your level 4 code.

Level 4Q1

sideways

towards the center of the Earth

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You've mastered the Thermodynamics Showdown! Whether hot or cold, your knowledge is sizzling!

Level 4 Complete

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Maze Menu

Navigate through 8 levels of merry challenges, each hosted by a jolly friend from the holidays. From Rudolph's cell-ular jumble to Santa's balance check-up, your scientific prowess will be put to the test!

Grinch's Stimulus Stumper

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The Grinch has hidden environmental stimuli clues throughout Whoville! Students will embark on a scavenger hunt to find and document how organisms respond to external stimuli like phototropism and fight or flight. The Grinch's heart will grow three sizes with every correct answer!

Level 5 Objective

7.13A - investigate how organisms respond to external stimuli found in the environment such as phototropism and fight or flight

Find the hidden objects scattered throughout Whoville. Each object will have a question hidden inside it that will lead you to your level 5 code.

Level 5Q1 - 3

Even a Grinch can't resist your brilliant stimuli search! Your science heart just grew three sizes!

Level 5 Complete

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Maze Menu

Navigate through 8 levels of merry challenges, each hosted by a jolly friend from the holidays. From Rudolph's cell-ular jumble to Santa's balance check-up, your scientific prowess will be put to the test!

Jack's Riddling Response Quest

Jack Skellington has some riddles about how organisms respond to external stimuli. Solve the riddles to unlock the secrets of phototropism and other responses. Beware of Oogie Boogie's traps along the way!

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Level 6 Objective

Objective - 7.13A - investigate how organisms respond to external stimuli found in the environment such as phototropism and fight or flight

Jack's Riddling Response Quest

The diagram illustrates a seed germinating. Many forces, including responses to moisture, light, temperature, and gravity are at work in this process. Which of the following correctly describes two of the seedling's responses to stimuli?

A. I is negative to light, and III is positive to gravity.

Level 6Q1

D. II is positive to gravity, and IV is positive to moisture.

B. IV is negative to temperature, and II is negative to gravity.

C.. II is negative to light, and III is positive to gravity.

Jack's Riddling Response Quest

Which of the following best explains the stimulus and response relationship that may occur with these leaves?

A. The plant senses when a cool breeze touches a hair, the stimulus, and snaps its leaf shut, the response, to keep itself protected from cold weather.

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D. The plant opens its leaf, the stimulus, and the plant feels the need to find water, the response.

B. The plant opens its leaf, the stimulus, and insects attract to the leaf, the response.

C. The plant senses when an insect touches a hair, the stimulus, and snaps its leaf shut, the response, to feed on the insect.

Jack's Riddling Response Quest

The picture below shows a flower experiencing phototropism, a type of growth movement.Which of the following best explains the external stimulus that is causing the response in the picture?

D. The plant, stimulated by indoor air, is responding by growing toward the preferred outdoor air.

B. The plant, stimulated by a need for water, is responding by its roots pushing out of the soil to search for water.

C. The plant, stimulated by a need for growth, is responding by trying to leave its pot because of lack of space.

A. The plant, stimulated by light through the window, is responding by growing toward that light.

Level 6Q3

Congratulations, my clever scientist! You've unraveled the mysteries of organism responses. Your knowledge is positively bone-chilling!

Level 6 Complete

SANDYCLAWS

Your password for level 6 is SANDYCLAWS

Watch out for Oogie Boogie!

Try again!

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Maze Menu

Navigate through 8 levels of merry challenges, each hosted by a jolly friend from the holidays. From Rudolph's cell-ular jumble to Santa's balance check-up, your scientific prowess will be put to the test!

Abominable Survival Challenge

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The Abominable Snowman is facing internal stimuli challenges! Students will explore how organisms respond to internal stimuli like wilting in plants and fever or vomiting in animals. Help the Abominable Snowman survive the harsh conditions of the winter maze!

Level 7 Objective

Objective - 7.13B - describe and relate responses in organisms that may result from internal stimuli such as wilting in plants and fever or vomiting in animals that allow them to maintain balance

A person develops an elevated body temperature from a bacterial infection. This fever is a response from the body to help fight the infection by —.

Select the correct answer to each question. Use the picture next to the correct answer choice and the decoder to find your level 7 code!

stopping additional bacteria from entering the body

increasing the energy level of the body

Level 7Q1

slowing the growth of the bacterial infection

increasing the body's heartbeat rate

A person becomes ill because they contracted an infection. The person's body starts to run a fever. What may be an internal response by this person's body to control its body temperature?

Select the correct answer to each question. Use the picture next to the correct answer choice and the decoder to find your level 7 code!

Taking asprin

Getting in an ice bath

Level 7Q2

Covering up

Sweating from pores

Read the passage "A Man Meets a Bear" in the box below. The man's surge of adrenaline was an —

Select the correct answer to each question. Use the picture next to the correct answer choice and the decoder to find your level 7 code!

external stimulus that made him think he was stronger than the bear and could fight it.

internal stimulus that encouraged him to stand up to the bear.

Level 7Q3

external stimulus that encouraged him to stand up to the bear.

internal stimulus that made his muscles ten times stronger than they normally are to fight the bear.

How do increased heart and breathing rates affect an animal that is faced with danger?

Select the correct answer to each question. Use the picture next to the correct answer choice and the decoder to find your level 7 code!

They allow the animal to relax and calmly decide what plan of action to take

They allow the animal to know exactly where the danger is coming from

Level 7Q3

They decrease oxygen and blood to parts of the body to save energy

They provide more oxygen and blood to parts of the body that might need it

You've conquered the survival challenges! Your science skills are as mighty as a snowstorm on Everest!

Level 7 Complete

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Maze Menu

Navigate through 8 levels of merry challenges, each hosted by a jolly friend from the holidays. From Rudolph's cell-ular jumble to Santa's balance check-up, your scientific prowess will be put to the test!

Santa's Balance Check-Up

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Santa needs to maintain balance during his busy night! Students will complete a puzzle related to responses in organisms resulting from internal stimuli. Help Santa stay balanced as he delivers presents across the North Pole. The more balanced, the more gifts for everyone!

Level 8 Objective

Objective - 7.13B - describe and relate responses in organisms that may result from internal stimuli such as wilting in plants and fever or vomiting in animals that allow them to maintain balance

Sort the puzzle pieces to creat an image then answer the question that appears once the puzzle is complete. The answer to the question will be your final code.

Level 8Q1

Ho ho ho-lly jolly! Your balance skills rival even mine on rooftops! You've earned your spot on the Nice List of Science Champions!

Level 8 Complete

YOU'VE COMPLETED THE MAZE!

Congratulations, intrepid scientists! You've conquered the Jingle Cell Rock maze and spread holiday cheer through the magic of science!

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A. A person tapping on a friend's shoulderB. A boy smelling a flower that is brightly coloredC. A child's eyes blinking due to smoke in the airD. A girl listening for thunder following lightning

What is an example of a reaction to a stimulus?

Look at the picture provided

A crocodile quietly stalks its prey, a wildebeest, drinking at a water hole. The wildebeest suddenly sees the crocodile approaching, and it probably responds by: A Fighting the crocodile B Remaining very still C Running away from the crocodile D Playing dead

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Euglena is a microscopic organism that lives in freshwater ponds. It has chloroplasts, moves by a flagellum, and has an eyespot that is sensitive to light. Euglena would MOST LIKELY respond to sunlight by swimming —A around the roots of a lily pad B beneath an underwater log C to the bottom of the pond D toward the pond surface

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EMERGENCE

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

SEEDLING

GEOTROPISM

TURGOR PRESSURE

FORCE

RIGID

PHOTOTROPISM

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