Building LEGO® Models To Teach Three-Dimensional, Mechanical Concepts In Optometry
Building LEGO® Models To Teach Three-Dimensional, Mechanical Concepts In Optometry

Summary/Abstract: This reflection piece describes a LEGO® kit building exercise, carried out in a flat lecture theatre with 80 to 90 second year Optometry students at the University of Manchester. The aim of the activity was to give students hands-on experience of the moving parts of a complex ophthalmic instrument (the slit lamp bio-microscope) prior to smaller scale lab-based practical sessions. The outcome of the exercise was prescribed and building instructions were provided, hence this was not an example of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. Instead, the learning came from the act of building and team co-operation. The activity also provided students with the opportunity to manipulate their moving model once complete, allowing delivery of more complex theories later in the lecture.

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