Categories: Comparisons
An example of an analogy used by a learner:
"'cause we did about plant and animal cells in Biology, so it's got a nucleus…
It's kind of like, the brain of the cell kind of. It's, it's what gets the cell to do everything, it's like, the core of the cell."
Bert, Y10 student
Bert was a participant in the Understanding Science Project. Read: 'The nucleus is the brain of the cell'.
Read examples of scientific analogies
Many examples of science analogies are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
