Mr Beetle Feels the Force

甲壳虫先生认为《原力》是一部针对关键阶段2(7-11岁)的小学生的节目。该节目是应老师们的要求制作的，这些老师看到了学生观看EPSRC资助的早期项目甲壳虫先生水上冒险的积极体验，并特别要求制作一部以部队为主题的节目--众所周知，这是小学教师很难涵盖的一个领域，许多人对此缺乏信心。该节目将专注于武力主题，但通过听讲故事、弹奏四弦琴、唱歌的甲壳虫先生来吸引学生的兴奋。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，他装扮成一只极具说服力的甲虫，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工作--这在科学界是罕见的--并邀请孩子们想象生活在昆虫世界是什么感觉，在那里他以戏剧性的方式感受和应对力量--一根简单的树枝变成了昆虫秋千。坠落的橡子是一件危及生命的事件，克服摩擦将食物拉进他的巢中是一项重要的任务。重点是我们如何以及为什么理解我们所做的力，以及我们如何通过研究发现新的事实，以及关于世界还有很多有待发现的东西。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。老师们通过我们上一个项目的反馈表明，这样的资源对他们来说是相当有价值的。因此，这次申请是进步和发展基金，基于甲虫先生水上冒险项目的成功，该项目由EPSRC PPE奖资助，最初的节目是通过这个奖项创作的，并在30个月的时间里访问了125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。来自教师的反馈表明，他们的科学预算不足以支付任何增强活动，像这样的免费活动是非常受欢迎的。

Mr Beetle Feels the Force is a show aimed at primary age pupils in Key Stage 2 (age 7 - 11). It is to be developed following requests from teachers who have had seen the positive experience of their pupils watching the earlier EPSRC funded project Mr Beetle's Water Adventure and have specifically asked for a show that deals with the topic of Forces - an area of the curriculum that is known to be one that primary school teachers find difficult to cover and where many lack confidence.The show will focus on the subject of force 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 an insect world, where he feels and responds to forces in a dramatic way - a simple twig becomes an insect seesaw, a falling acorn is a life threatening event and overcoming friction to pull his food into his nest is a major undertaking.Emphasis is on how and why we understand forces 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 through our previous project indicates that such a resource is of considerable value to them.Thus this application is for Progress and Development funding based upon the success ofr 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 125 primary schools over 30 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. Feedback from teachers has indicated that their science budget is insufficient to cover any enhancement activities and free events such as this are extremely welcome.