PPE:Fantastic Plastic - or how to make your first million

PPE：神奇塑料 - 或者如何赚到你的第一个一百万

• 批准号: EP/D065488/1
• 负责人: Geoffrey Mitchell
• 金额: $ 10.71万
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FD065488%2F1
• 关键词: PPE; Fantastic; Plastic; how; make

Fantastic Plastic - or How to Make Your First Million:GCSE level students are fascinated by how different their lives will be in 5 years time. This talk offers a vision of their future: either as consumers of the latest high tech application of polymeric materials or as the science innovators and entrepreneurs researching the materials, developing the products and bringing them to the market. This newly developed talk will match the requirements of both the new GCSE Science syllabuses and the Enterprise Education elements of the curriculum. It will take students through the basic properties of polymers and how they can be manipulated to the concept that research and development can design materials for specific purposes and that business is built upon such developments. The original Fantastic Plastic talk was extremely popular and seen by 25,000 people in 4 years. This talk will take the best of that and move it into the future. However, beyond this, it will focus on the impact of science on the students' lives by highlighting the way that science has taken problems and found solutions that have then become available to everyone through enterprise. This way students will be introduced to the idea that science is an avenue to career opportunities. As a souvenir a pencil made of a recycled plastic cup will be given to each audience member. This as proved to be a particularly effective way of drawing the talk to a close after a section devoted to the environmental questions and recycling and biodegradable plastics.At the request of teachers who have already hosted the talk, a resource pack of worksheets will be developed that match the new GCSE requirements and draw on the content of the talk. This will allow teachers to set follow-on work to consolidate knowledge either within class or as homework.Fantastic Plastic - or the Science of SlimeYoungsters love slime. As a result of many requests for Fantastic Plastic based acitvities for younger audiences, this project will develop the ultimate demonstration lecture and hands on activity session for slime loving youngsters, taking them through a number of every day applications of polymers, from nappies to chewing gum, to more futuristic possibilities. The final 'make and take' activity will allow them to make their own slime and potty putty or rubber ball.A pack of activity sheets will be produced, again as a result of teacher requests, so that they can revisit the ideas from the demonstration and hands-on events with the children.

神奇塑料-或如何使你的第一个百万：GCSE水平的学生着迷于如何不同他们的生活将在5年的时间。本次演讲提供了他们未来的愿景：无论是作为最新的高科技应用聚合物材料的消费者，还是作为研究材料，开发产品并将其推向市场的科学创新者和企业家。这个新开发的谈话将符合新的GCSE科学教学大纲和课程的企业教育元素的要求。它将带学生通过聚合物的基本特性，以及如何将它们操纵到研究和开发可以为特定目的设计材料的概念，以及业务是建立在这种发展的基础上。最初的Fantastic Plastic talk非常受欢迎，在4年内有25，000人观看。这次演讲将充分利用这一点，并将其推向未来。然而，除此之外，它将重点关注科学对学生生活的影响，突出科学解决问题的方式，并找到解决方案，然后通过企业提供给每个人。通过这种方式，学生将被介绍给科学是一个途径的职业机会的想法。作为纪念品，每一位观众都会得到一支由回收塑料杯制成的铅笔。这被证明是一个特别有效的方式来结束演讲后，专门讨论环境问题和回收和生物降解塑料的一部分。应教师的要求，谁已经主持了讲座，将开发一个资源包的生物降解塑料，以符合新的GCSE要求，并借鉴讲座的内容。这将允许教师设置后续工作，以巩固知识，无论是在课堂上或作为家庭作业。由于许多年轻观众对Fantastic Plastic活动的要求，该项目将为热爱黏液的年轻人开发最终的演示讲座和动手活动课程，带他们体验聚合物的日常应用，从尿布到口香糖，再到更多的未来可能性。最后的“制作和接受”活动将允许他们制作自己的粘液和便盆腻子或橡胶球。一包活动表将被制作，再次作为教师要求的结果，这样他们就可以重温演示和动手活动的想法与孩子们。