Three of the CIEC team delivered primary workshops at the
Annual ASE Conference held this year at Birmingham University at the start of
this term.
Clare Warren gave a practical session exploring different
approaches for engaging students with science entitled Teaching Science or Teaching Scientists?
Gayle Pook’s session Working
Scientifically with Real Scientists explored how CIEC harness the
expertise and goodwill of industry to engage primary children with both science
and the possibility of industry as a career.
Enjoying practical
science in Gayle’s session
Jane Winter had notable success with her session Get out more: Inspiring Science in the
Outdoor Classroom which explored exciting and manageable ways to go outside
as much as possible and to use the potential of the ‘outdoor classroom’ to
engage and motivate children and to maximise their science learning. Jane
delivered her talk to a packed lecture theatre and has received great feedback
since the event.
Gayle and Clare also demonstrated a range of practical
science activities in the Primary Pop-Up
session held during one of the lunch breaks.
One of the Primary
Pop Up activities
Gayle pronounced the conference to be a rewarding few days
for CIEC, “It is such a good event each year for meeting new educators, for
showcasing the work of CIEC and engaging in really useful CPD for the team.
This year there was a great atmosphere with everyone keen to improve their
skills in order to engage children with science.”
