Engaging students in hands-on inquiry helps them develop skills associated with the scientific process. Development of simple experiments using model caterpillars can provide an experiential ...

It is 120 years since Plasticine was invented by a Victorian art teacher from Bath. William Harbutt began small scale production of the clay in his basement, using a garden roller to flatten it out.

Curious how to turn plasticine into a stunning Toyota AE86? In this video, I reveal the full process behind crafting this detailed model, which took 90 hours of work condensed into an exciting ...

James has dreamt up a sculpted art installation, inspired by nature's variety and fecundity, and framed in the guise of a mystical secret garden from the dreamscape of childhood. Art imitates life in ...

Plasticine is cheap,’ Henry Hudson says, pulling open a cupboard to reveal stacks of the plastic-wrapped, candy-coloured modelling clay. ‘It’s oil-based, so you can mix the colours like paint, and ...

A picture of innocence, May rejects the suggestion that he isn't serious: "I think the RHS liked the novelty of the idea," he says. And once he'd convinced production company Plum Pictures to back it, ...

WE were keeping some snails (Helix pomatia} without food, under a bell-jar with a wide tubulure at the top ; in the tubulure was a cork bearing a thermometer. We found that the snails ate the cork, so ...