Time for Nano Events and activities across the UK May Dr Penny Fidler
ASDC Mission To bring together the ASDC membership to play a strategic role in the nation’s engagement with science
In Jan 2010, 5 centres selected, MOU made with each of 5 UK science centres deadline for delivery for all given as 30 June 2011
Magna Training day Train the Trainer Pack ASDC provided training to 9 learning managers and other key staff from 5 UK science centres at the Magna science centre on 17 September They returned to their centres and trained their own explainer teams, and teachers in their parts of the UK. 131 teachers and explainers trained to date
The Nanodays
12 nanodays, 5 UK cities, 3737 participants Activities at: science and discovery centres science festivals in schools as part of cafe scientifique
Science Oxford Nanodays; 1 st Nanoday: 2 Feb 2011, 3 schools, 37 students, 14 adults(including 7 nanoscientists) All day events, included play decide and making a film
Science Oxford Nanodays; 2nd Nanoday: 9 Feb 2011, 27 students, 10 adults(including 2 nanoscientists) All day events, included play decide and making a film
Bolton STC Nano Day ( = 118 students)
Bolton STC NanoDays, November 2010 and March 2011
2010 Bristol (ASDC) events Festival of Nature, 100 primary school age students and parents Marlwood School: 150 secondary students Hanham school: after school science club: 30 students John Cabot academy: 2 classes of year olds Total 340 students
Bristol Festival of Nature: 12 and 13 june 2010
At-Bristol Nanoday 11 March 2011, full day event with nanoscientists, nanokit and play decide, 27 students
Lots of handouts given, images from universities
Dundee Science Centre(Scotland) 3164 people Nanomagic Show for families Dundee developed a Nanomagic show for family audiences. This was ran for ten days in February, engaging a further 2851 visitors with Nanoscience and Nanotechnolog y.
The 5 science centres advertised the events on their website
Science centres contnue to deliver the nanoscience events as part of other programmes
Naturally Nano Iridescence of tropical butterfly wings and peacock feathers are examples of natural ‘nano-photonic’ systems Nano structures on their surface reflect light repeatedly leading to interference effects that depend on both wavelength and angle of observance
Magna Science Centre, sheffield
Magna Science Centre Nanoday 1 23 Feb 2011 (Half term holidays) family audiences 93 people: children age 7-11 and parents Experiments with the nanokit on the floor Discussions with staff on nanoscience Full day of nano-themed activities Day completed, not included into overall data Nano day 2: With 180 year 9 students (age14) at their school Focus on the video creation and the nanokit experimentation Scheduled for end June
Evaluation of Nano days 100 Pre-nano days questionnaires 100 Post-nano days questionnaires 1x Observation game chart (1 to come) 1x Grid discussion group (1 to come)
It was cool and amazing! It was fun as I got to use my imagination and work with my friends It was fascinating! I find it interesting knowing that these things can help with everyday life They were practical and you could get involved Responses from the students
It was something we had never seen before & was interesting It was different & interesting, also it makes me more curious about nanoscience More activities please! more experiments. Current ones were great but more would be fantastic
Prize-giving Judges The public engagement expert Dr Michaela Livingstone, ASDC The Teacher: Bristol schools The NanoScientist; Jon Hauser Bristol Centre for functional Nanomaterials, Bristol University The Video expert: Hugh Thomas, The closing date and deadlines The u-tube-based video contest closes on 30 June Judging panel convenes on Friday July 1
Teacher and Multiplier Training 131 teachers and multipliers trained
Science Oxford teacher training
5 centres provided multiplier training to 131 teachers and explainers In addition, ASDC also trained 9 secondary teachers 2 nanoscientists 2 university outreach Science museum London: used nano kit with 17 teachers with science learning centre
The Multiplier effect Each centre trained teachers in their region. -Each teacher was given a nanokit to run nano activities back in school. -Each centre gave out all nano kits to trained teachers who would do activities with 1-4 classes ( students). Ie another 3000 students
Magna Science Centre
Teacher training completed 18 May secondary teachers trained in hands-on course Teachers took home nanokit 16 Feb 2011 explainer training at Magna (4 staff) for staff focussing on primary education Day completed, not yet included into overall data Teacher training to come Mid June 2011, Primary teacher training session planned
Evaluation of teacher training 13 Teachers’ training questionnaire +14 other evaluations. More to come from Magna at end June
Responses from the teachers 124 teachers were trained... Useful opportunity to share ideas with other teachers Great teaching ideas Great resources ! Great fun & I will definitely use resources – ideal to have kit to take out to homes
Teacher training, At-bristol
Science Oxford
Webcontest
Launch at house of Lords 28 feb 2011 attended by lords, ladies ethicists, scientists
38 videos uploaded
Thank you Dr Penny Fidler