After spending a school year in my biology class, one hour each day, the teaching methods felt very flat and 2D (pun intended). But in reality, after so many fill-in the blanks worksheets and videos describing the function and details of an animal cell, we never got a hands-on model of any type of cell for us to look like. We made several drawings and presentations on the topic but it felt as if we were missing something. So, I set out to create a detailed model of an animal cell to the best of my abilities in order to help teachers, educators, and most importantly the student learn more about the cell and surrounding topic in a more interactive way. And what better way to do it then with the latest technologies. So here it is, a fully interactive, detailed, and multi-layer model of an animal cell.

The object included / need to print in this project are:

• 1 Outer Shell/Layer (Plasma Membrane)
• 1 Inner Layer (Cytoplasm)
• 1 Nucleus
• 1 Nucleolus
• 2 Mitochondrion
• 2 Lysosomes
• 2 Centrioles
• 1 Golgi Apparatus
• 1 Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum
• 1 Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum

Please read through the information below if you plan to print this educational project as there are some tweaks to be made according to the printer you use.

Check out my other educational thing: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1663098

Update 8/30/2016: The inner part of the cell was scaled incorrectly. It is now correct and should work with the other pieces. Thank you to gringer for noticing this.