Cell Organelles Scavenger Hunt Activity | Plant and Animal Cells

Are you looking for a fun activity that allows your students improve their skills and knowledge of identifying cell organelles? This printable and digital scavenger hunt is an engaging and student-led, low- to no-prep task that helps your students practice recognizing structures within plant and animal cells and their functions. There are twelve questions on printable station cards included (three printing options). A digital version for Google Forms™ is also provided.

✨What’s Included✨

• 12 printable scavenger hunt station cards in 3 color options (color, B&W, low-ink)
• Access file for digital version of scavenger hunt (for Google Forms™)
• Printable and digital recording sheet to help your students keep track
• Answer Key

Standards:

NGSS MS-LS1-1 and LS1-2: From Molecules to Organisms, and TEKS 7.12.D: Organisms and Environment.

Prior knowledge/skills required:

To get most out of this activity, students should be able to identify the following cell organelles / structures from diagrams, definitions or analogies, as well as being able to tell the difference between animal and plant cells:

• nucleus
• cell membrane
• cytoplasm
• vacuole
• cell wall
• mitochondria
• ribosome
• Golgi bodies / apparatus
• endoplasmic reticulum
• chloroplast
• lysosome

Printable Version

Simply print the station cards and distribute them around the room. To prevent students from following others around the loop, I usually print 4 to 5 sets on different colored paper and have smaller groups of students follow a ‘color loop’, e.g. the green or blue station cards. The cards are designed so that students can begin at any of the station. They answer the question on their card, then look around until they spot the answer on the top bar of one of the remaining cards. This will become their next question card. Once they have answered all twelve questions correctly, they will find themselves back at their first station.

Google Forms™ version

Once you copied the Google Form™, you can it assign via the usual platforms (e.g. Google Classroom) to your students. They will be prompted to find the answer to the question on station card A, then select the answer card showing the correct answer and click ‘next’ at the bottom of the form. This will take them to their next station card. They will need to keep track of the order of station cards as they will need to enter this sequence to complete the task.

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How to use this resource:

⭐ Assessment of prior learning

⭐ Early finishers

⭐ Science Centers

⭐ Formative assessment of (newly learned) information

⭐ Homework

⭐ Mid- or end-of-unit review / Test Prep

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