PPE:Mr Beetle's Watery Adventure

《甲壳虫先生的水上探险》是一部针对关键阶段2(7-11岁)小学生的节目。它聚焦于水的主题，但通过听讲故事、弹四弦琴、唱歌的甲壳虫先生让学生们兴奋不已。甲壳虫先生实际上是一位经验丰富的儿童教育家巴里·帕特森，他打扮成一只极具说服力的甲壳虫，通过故事、歌曲、科学演示和大量观众参与来吸引学生。这个项目的独特之处在于，它通过讲故事的媒介发挥作用--这在科学界是罕见的--邀请孩子们想象生活在水的世界是什么感觉，而不仅仅是演示水的特性。重点是我们如何以及为什么以我们的方式理解水，以及我们如何通过研究发现新的事实，关于世界还有很多有待发现的地方。这种想法对年轻人来说很少见，因为他们通常被要求“发现”他们的老师已经知道的东西。为了帮助老师们工作，我们还将制作一个教学资源包，老师们可以用来帮助学生巩固他们通过节目所学到的东西。来自教师的反馈表明，这样的资源对他们来说将是相当有价值的。因此，这份申请是为非常成功的甲壳虫先生水上探险项目争取进步和发展资金，该项目由EPSRC PPE奖资助，最初的表演是通过该奖项创作的，并在9个月的时间里访问了25所小学，学校免费。这个项目现在试图让更多的孩子从这一增强的科学体验中受益，而不考虑学校的财务状况。

Mr Beetle's Watery Adventure is a show aimed at primary age pupils in Key Stage 2 (age 7 - 11).It focuses on the subject of water but engages the pupils through the excitement of listening to a story-telling, ukele-playing, song-singing Mr Beetle. Mr Beetle is actually Barry Patterson, an experienced children's educator who dresses up as a highly convincing beetle and engages pupils though stories, songs, scientific demonstrations and lots of audience participation.The unique element of this project is that it works through the medium of storytelling - rare in the world of science - and invites the children to imagine what it is like to live in a watery world, rather than simply demonstrating properties of water.Emphasis is on how and why we understand water the way we do and how we find out new facts by research and that there is still much to be discovered about the world. This idea is rare for youngsters as they are usually required to 'discover' what their teachers already know.To help teachers in their work we will also produce a teaching resource pack which teachers can use to help pupils consolidate what they have learnt through the show. Feedback from teachers indicates that such a resource would be of considerable value to them.Thus this application is for Progress and Development funding for the highly successful project Mr Beetle's Watery Adventure, funded by an EPSRC PPE award through which the original show was created and went on to visit 25 primary schools over 9 months at no cost to the schools. This project now seeks to allow even more children to benefit from this enhancement to their science experience regardless of the financial position of the school.