On the 23rd of March three staff from the MRC-PPU visited the Dundee University Nursery to have a fun half day of experimenting. Nicola Wood, Vicky McGuire and Gail Gilmour, assisted by Nursery staff, helped the children get hands-on with some messy, colorful and hopefully thought provoking projects.

A color table was set up showing the kids which colors are in their Smarties, and the immiscible properties of everyday substances like milk and oil. There was exercise a plenty at the body table to demonstrate the function of the heart, and skeleton pictures alongside. Messy gloop and bicarbonate of soda fizzing lava seemed to be a firm favorite with the kids before they moved on to looking at some items collected from the garden under the microscope, kindly donated for the day by Dr Alan Prescott. The visit was then rounded off with the ooohs, aahhs and general excitement produced by the dry ice volcanoes.

As a result of the visit quite a few of the children have promised to become scientists when they grow up, so hopefully they'll be working with us in the not too distant future!!