Science Education

National Science and Engineering Week starts today

Just a reminder to anyone who doesn’t know, National Science and Engineering Week starts today. There’s a searchable online programme here. There’s stuff all over the country, and also some online things, which you might find useful resources. And speaking of useful resources, I love Quirkology.

Posted on March 7, 2008 by in Science Education | Tagged luck, National Science and Engineering Week, online experiments, Quirkology, Richard Wiseman | Comments Off

What teachers want

This is a quick summary of what we’ve found out so far from teachers. It’s been really useful talking to them. Most have been excited about the event, but some exhibited what you might call a bit of skepticism about the new GCSE curriculum,

Posted on February 28, 2008 by in How Science Works, Science Education | Tagged feedback, focus groups, GCSE, teacher pack development, teacher research, teaching materials, timings, topics | 1 Comment

Time to bin the happy pills?

I’ve been very interested by this study, which has got a lot of coverage today. It’s a meta-analysis of studies on anti-depressants and apparently shows that they don’t work.

Posted on February 26, 2008 by in Science Education | Tagged activities, anti-depressants, data reliability, debates, drug companies, publication bias, teacher packs | 1 Comment

How to find science vids on YouTube

Following on from my remarks about YouTube in the classroom, I’ve come across ScienceHack, a search engine that helps you find science content on YouTube.

Posted on February 13, 2008 by in Science Education | Tagged educational, fun, Marshall McLuhan, YouTube | 2s Comments

What young people think about science

I’ve been looking at research on young people’s attitudes to science. Partly to help me work out how we are going to measure any change caused by taking part in I’m a Scientist, and partly to help me understand what their attitudes are and so inform the materials we put together. One of the most interesting things I’ve found out is that according to this

Posted on February 7, 2008 by in Science Education, Wellcome Trust | Tagged attitudes, PISA, research, young people, young people's attitudes to science | 1 Comment

What can you do?

I want to take part with my class ❯

I want to take part as a scientist ❯

I want to find out about funding I’m a Scientist ❯

What is I’m a Scientist?

I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here is an online activity where school students get to meet and interact with scientists.

It’s a competition between scientists, where the students are the judges.

Students challenge the scientists over intense, fast-paced, online live Chats. Then they Ask the scientists all the questions they want to, and Vote for their favourite scientist to win a prize of £500 to communicate their work with the public.