Lighting it Up: The Physics of Imaging Space

“照亮它：成像空间的物理学”是一个多部分、多干预的外展和公众参与项目，以在太空中捕捉准确图像的物理学为中心。点亮它将带着孩子们探索太空，以及我们所看到的东西背后的科学，以及我们如何使用手机和相机等可识别的技术来看待它。该方案是新颖的，在英国各地的关键阶段3远程向儿童提供混合学习，包括高质量的电影、远程在线直播课程和教师指导的课堂活动。这样的方法使我们能够用高质量的资源接触到全国范围内的大量受众，同时提高教师的技能，并让年轻人参与尖端研究。通过Lighting It Up项目，我们的目标是通过促进在尖端科学研究中使用学校物理课程，为学校科学提供现实世界的应用，来吸引和支持新一代科学家在16岁后学习物理的愿望。我们将使用物理学、天文学和空间STFC研究的例子，以及它们在探索空间及其所包含的物体方面的用途，来传达空间任务的兴奋。我们的目标也是通过向孩子们展示用来捕捉太空图像的先进技术是如何起源于我们在地球上使用的日常物品，如智能手机相机，从而将其带到地球上。我们的目标是通过向孩子们展示创新是令人兴奋的，让科学家们能够超越地球大气层，拍摄人类完全无法到达的宇宙部分，从而进一步支持和参与。孩子们将看到他们在学校学到的科学如何让科学家们以完美的画面细节探索太空及其所有令人惊叹的组成部分。我们将使用Lighting It Up电影、在线会议和资源包来展示我们不同职业水平的STFC研究人员。这不仅使我们能够在STEM外展和公众参与方面为我们的科学家提供培训，还让他们有机会练习他们的参与技能，并使我们能够向孩子们强调参与研究的科学家的多样性。在行业合作伙伴Teledyne-e2v的支持下，我们还将展示学术研究以外的物理职业，展示进入STEM职业生涯的不同途径。我们旨在通过为教师提供课堂指导活动的资源包，提高年轻人对物理及其实际应用的信心。这些活动将支持儿童更自由地思考科学概念及其在更广泛世界中的使用。通过这样做，我们希望进一步提高学生的成就和扩大他们的职业抱负，帮助他们看到物理是动态的、相关的和对他们来说的。我们的目标也是通过加深教师的学科知识，为他们提供精心设计和相关的课堂实践活动，让他们在学校独立开展，从而提高教师在物理教学中的信心。教育工作者的“持续专业发展”(CPD)培训将支持教育工作者向学生介绍科学活动，即使他们是非专业的科学教师。通过将我们的资源与课程内容联系起来，同时提供当前世界领先的研究范例，教师将能够将新知识无缝地融入他们的教学中，同时提供他们可以在未来重复使用的资源。

'Lighting it Up: The Physics of Imaging Space' is a multiple-part, multiple intervention outreach and public engagement programme centred around the physics of capturing accurate images in space. Lighting it Up will take children on an exploration of space and the science behind what we see and how we see it using recognisable technology such as mobile phones and cameras. This programme is novel, being delivered remotely to children at Key Stage 3 throughout the United Kingdom using blended learning, including a high-quality film, remote live online sessions and teacher-led classroom activities. Such an approach enables us to reach a large audience nationally with high-quality resources, whilst upskilling teachers and engaging young people with cutting-edge research. With the Lighting it Up project, we aim to engage and support the aspirations of a new generation of scientists to study physics post-16 by promoting the use of the school physics curriculum within cutting-edge science research, providing real-world applications for school science. We will use examples of physics, astronomy and space STFC research, and their uses in the exploration of space and the objects it contains, to convey the excitement of space missions. We also aim to 'bring it down to Earth' by showing children how the advanced technologies that are used to capture space images have their origins in everyday objects we use on Earth, such as smartphone cameras. We aim to further support and engage the children by showing them that innovation is exciting, allowing scientists to reach beyond the Earth's atmosphere and image parts of the Universe that are otherwise completely inaccessible to humans. Children will see how the science they learn about in school allows scientists to explore space and all of its amazing components in picture perfect detail. We will use the Lighting it Up film, online sessions and resource packs to showcase a range of our STFC researchers at different career levels. This not only allows us to provide training for our scientists in STEM outreach and public engagement, but also give them opportunities to practice their engagement skills, and allow us to highlight to children the diversity of scientists involved in research. With the support of industry partner Teledyne-e2v, we will also showcase careers in physics outside of academic research, showing different routes into a STEM career.We aim to improve young people's confidence in physics and its practical applications by providing their teachers with resource packs of activities to lead in the classroom. These activities will support children to think more freely about science concepts and their use in the wider world. Through this, we further hope to raise student attainment and widen their career aspirations by helping them to see that physics is dynamic, relevant and for them. We also aim to improve teacher confidence in teaching physics by deepening their subject knowledge and providing them with well-designed and related classroom practical activities to run independently in school. Educator 'Continuing Professional Development' (CPD) training developed alongside the delivered content will support educators in presenting the science activities to students even if they are non-specialist science teachers. By linking our resources to the curriculum content whilst providing examples of current world-leading research, teachers will be able to seamlessly incorporate new knowledge into their teaching, whilst providing resources they can reuse in the future.