The Joys of Plasticine

We've been using plasticine here on the Level Zero courses to reinforce learning for a very long time. Its often very popular with our older students who have young families, as they like to go home and make the models again with their children. Normally, we make models of animal and plant cell ultrastructure and cell membranes.

When Mike, our technician, was at the Metro Centre last weekend he saw that the people from the Centre for Life were doing something similar but with a bit of a twist - they were making their cell models in Petri dishes so that the children could take them home! That sounded like a great idea, so we thought that we'd give it a try too...




















These models were made by two of our Biomedical Sciences students











And here you can see our Foundation Pharmacy students happily beavering away on their models.

Everyone had a great deal of fun and the fact they could take the models home was a big hit. Now all we need to do is buy some more plasticine ready for making cell membranes next week!