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Come up with analogies for cell organelles. Create a visually appealing project to demonstrate understanding of cell anatomy. Some examples could include a poster, a pamphlet, or other visual medium that includes writing.

You have a choice of different projects for the cell unit including: a cell story, a cell storyboard, a cell analogy poster, or a cell model. All of them will be scored based on the same criteria.

Students design an imaginary organism to show patterns of inheritance in several chosen traits. The traits must include examples of complete dominance, incomplete dominance, codominance, multiple alleles for a trait, and epistasis. Students will demonstrate understanding through visual description of phenotypes, explanation of inheritance, and description of a habitat/environment where the organism is well-adapted for living.

Assessment of development of a lab report focusing on scientific writing skills, data analysis, and making conclusions based on achievement of objectives or support or rejection of a hypothesis.

Assesses ability to organize and write a lab report in a publication-ready format. Students must be able to organize data into and Introduction, Methods (Procedure), Results, and Conclusion in an APA format. Style of writing emphasizes that seen in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Used for assessment in advanced biology.

Students have to design a joint from synthetic materials after a freely moving joint found in the human body. This simply assesses the proposal of the project and explanation of information, not the building of the joint itself.