Time for Nano

Events and activities across the UK

May 24 2011

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 centresdeadline 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 2010.

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; 1st 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 (58 + 60 = 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 13-14 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 Nanotechnology.

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 friendsIt 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

Responses from the students

It was something we had never seen before

& was interestingIt 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 deadlinesThe u-tube-based video contest closes on 30 June 2011. http://www.youtube.com/timefornanoUKJudging panel convenes on Friday July 1

Teacher and Multiplier Training131 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 teachers2 nanoscientists2 university outreach Science museum London: used nano kit with 17 teachers with science learning centre

The Multiplier effectEach 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 (30 -120 students). Ie another 3000 students

Magna Science Centre

Magna Science Centre

Teacher training completed•18 May 2011•12 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

teachersGreat teaching

ideasGreat

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 Lords28 feb 2011 attended by lords, ladies ethicists, scientists

38 videos uploaded

Thank you

Dr Penny Fidler

www.sciencecentres.org.uk