Strategy: AnalogiesKeela Parsons

March 19, 2013

Steps for Analogies Strategy1. Select a concept familiar to the students

that is analogous in certain ways to the new concept.

2. Introduce a blank analogy graphic organizer (or table). Label the new concept in the left column and familiar concept in the right column.

3. Brainstorm similar characteristics of the two concepts and write those in the correct column.

4. After the lesson students revisit the graphic organizer, adding or revising the information.

5. Students write a summary describing the new concept using the information on the organizer.

What is an Analogy?Agreement or similarity, especially in a

certain limited number of features or detailsA comparison made to show such a similarityBiology: the relationship between analogous

organs or parts, such as organelles

Diagram of a Cell

NucleusFunctionControls cell

activitiesContains the

hereditary material of the cell

Analogous City StructureCity Hall

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/San%20Francisco%20City%20Hall.jpg

MitochondriaFunctionBreaks down sugar

molecules to release energy

Site of aerobic cellular respiration

Analogous City StructurePower Plants

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_station

Golgi Complex FunctionModify proteins

made by the cellsPackage and export

proteins

Analogous City StructureUPS

http://www.siteselection.com/issues/2012/jan/images/UPS_BonnGermany.jpg

http://info.tpj.org/watchyourassets/walmart/walmart_boxes_web.jpg

RibosomeFunctionSynthesizes proteins

Analogous City StructureFactory

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Wolfsburg_VW-Werk.jpg/250px-Wolfsburg_VW-Werk.jpg

LysosomeFunctionDigests proteins,

lipids, and carbohydrates

Transports undigested material to the cell membrane

Cell breaks down if lysosome breaks

Analogous City StructureRecycling

Plant/Waste Disposal

http://www.thegreenwichphantom.co.uk/uploaded_images/DSCF0050-749227.JPG

Cell MembraneFunctionSupport and

protectionControls movement of

materials in/out of cellBarrier between cell

and its environmentHelps maintain

homeostasisAnalogous City StructureCity Limits http://www.destinationflatonia.com/documents/zoning/city_limits_aeria2-

04l.jpg

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6179/6168993081_d26e648576_z.jpg

Works CitedCell Structure & Function . (n.d.). Retrieved

from BIO 301 Human Physiology: http://people.eku.edu/ ritchisong/cell1.gif

PREPIT. (2006). Analogy graphic organizer. Retrieved from Professional Rural Education Program: http://www.prepit.org/reading/analogyGraphic.

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