This has been even harder than choosing the schools. We ended up cutting out bits of paper with everyone’s details on and moving them all around the desk, making up fantasy groups and trying to see if each group had got everything covered. I really wanted to include almost everyone, but we had to say no to some really great people.
However, I think the 15 scientists we’ve picked (five for each group of students) will be fantastic – good communicators, enthusiastic, with interesting work to discuss and raising some thought-provoking issues. I would publish the details on here, but I’ve not had confirmation back from everyone yet.
But I can tell you that topics covered range from studying climate change to engineering solutions for rectal incontinence. Which is really quite a range, however you look at it.
Teacher packs
We’re sending the teacher packs out today to participating teachers. All our teaching resources can also be downloaded by any teacher who wants to (below). Each pack contains:-
- Teacher briefing notes
- Lesson plans
- Supporting materials for planned lessons
- Lesson 1: Criteria list
- Lesson 2: IVF debate teacher’s notes and character cards
- Lesson 3: Question list
- Information sheets
- Drug Development (HSW point: sources of bias in science)…
- Pesticides (HSW point: data handling/reliability vs validity)…
- Nuclear Power (HSW point: facts vs opinion)…
- 40 Student Access code cards
- 1 Teacher Access code card
I would email everyone electronic copies too, but it’s loads of files and would clog up inboxes, so I’ve uploaded them here. Once the actual site is live they will all be available there, but in the meantime, you can download them from here. We believe that information and education should be free, so all the materials are copyright free (under a Creative Commons Attribution license) and any teachers are free to download the materials and make use of them.
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