Understanding Our World - an engaging workshop for Key stage 3 students

AT-Bristol将与Ral太空中心的研究科学家休·莫蒂默博士合作，为第三阶段的重点学生开发和试行一个身临其境的具有挑战性的研讨会，探索理解我们世界的科学。讲习班将展示全球遥感技术，并将使学生有机会规划和开展他们自己的地方规模的调查。2011年秋季，At-Bristol将推出“我们的世界”，这是一个探索地球系统、研究自然如何循环利用能源、水、碳等的新展览。这个新的工作坊将补充和扩展“我们的世界”展览，为学生提供更广泛的背景和丰富的体验。研讨会还回应了最近与教师的磋商，并支持关键的第三阶段科学课程的一些方面，包括：·科学1.1a--使用科学思想和模型解释现象，并创造性地开发它们，以生成和测试理论。·科学1.2a--探索科学思想的创造性应用如何带来技术发展以及由此导致的人们思维和行为方式的变化。·科学1.4a--跨学科和边界分享发展和共同理解。·科学2.2a--从广泛的主要和次要来源获取记录和分析数据。·科学3.4a--引起地质活动。通过化学和物理过程·科学3.4c-人类活动和自然过程可能导致环境变化。·科学4d-在当地学习科学，研讨会的发展研讨会将由AT-Bristol和休·莫蒂默博士开发。Mortimers博士的专长是红外光谱和地球观测仪器校准。他是负责管理和操作姊妹仪器的团队的一员，这是一种辐射计，目前在玛丽女王2号上运行，监测海面温度。我们还将拍摄莫蒂默博士介绍他的工作，并谈论研究和关键发现。我们的目标是在两个不同的学校小组(60名学生)中试办这个工作坊。这将确保工作坊达到所述的目的和目标，并满足教师和学生的需求。在试点阶段之后，讲习班将成为AT-Bristol为中学提供的核心服务的一部分。然后，中学将能够预订正在进行的研讨会。我们预计每年将有C600名学生参加。研讨会期间将使用At-Bristol内各种鼓舞人心的空间，包括天文馆、At-Bristol专门建造的教室和实验室以及展览空间，特别是我们的世界。工作坊还将为学生提供使用专业数据监控设备的机会。这些因素结合在一起，将创造一种独特的体验，这在学校是不可能的。两个小时的研讨会将包括：·0.5小时的地球观测和全球遥感“·1.5小时的数据收集、分析和演示‘地球观测和全球遥感从太空观测地球使科学家能够发展和改进他们的环境模型。空间仪器提供长期的全球测量，从而能够跟踪区域和全球发生的气候变化和环境变化。拉尔空间中心的科学家通过提供支持英国科学界的研究专业知识、服务和设施，为英国和国际环境科学计划做出贡献并提供支持。在休·莫蒂默博士的帮助下，RAL空间中心研究科学家的工作将通过合作两个RAL空间中心地球观测项目为学生带来生机：Envisat(环境监测卫星)和SISTER(扫描红外海面温度辐射计)。这次会议由AT-Bristol的专家科学传播员主持，将使用雷尔空间研究中心科学家的视频和专门制作的动画来解释极地轨道的ENVISAT卫星如何捕获我们世界的图像，以及在这种规模上获得的信息对了解我们的世界的重要性。还将讨论地球静止轨道。SISTeR将被用作不使用卫星技术的创新遥感技术的例子。数据收集、分析和展示使用研究级数据收集设备(数据记录器、传感器、探测器等)，学生将有机会设计、计划和领导他们自己的调查。他们将制定自己的调查标准，收集和分析自己的数据，并将调查结果提交给同行。数据收集可能包括但不限于布里斯托尔场馆内外不同区域的温度、二氧化碳和紫外线辐射。学生们还将有机会接触到通过‘我们的世界’展览收集的数据，以及来自ENVISAT和SISTER的真实研究数据，以分析和比较他们自己的研究。学生将考虑地方一级的环境监测如何与全球范围内的地球观测相联系。项目时间表·8月11日-项目合作伙伴开会、集思广益研讨会开发、商定行动·9月至10月11日-与学校进行前端评估和为试点研讨会招募人员·10月至12月11日-研讨会开发·1月12日至2月12日-交付试点研讨会·2月12日至3月12日-试点后开发·4月至7月12日-向10所学校或300名学生交付·正在进行的营销、招聘和评估-见另一页

At-Bristol will work in partnership with Dr Hugh Mortimer, a Research Scientist based at the RAL Space centre, to develop and pilot an immersive and challenging workshop, for Key Stage 3 students, that explores the science of understanding our world. The workshop will showcase global remote sensing techniques and will give students the opportunity to plan and carry out their own local scale investigations. In Autumn 2011, At-Bristol will launch ‘Our world’, a new exhibition exploring Earth systems and looking at how nature recycles energy, water, carbon etc.This new workshop would complement and extend the ‘Our world’ exhibition providing students with a wider context and an enriching experience. The workshop also responds to recent consultation with teachers and supports a number of aspects of the Key Stage 3 science curriculum including:•Sci1.1a – using scientific ideas and models to explain phenomena and developing them creatively to generate and test theories.•Sci1.2a – exploring how the creative application of scientific ideas can bring about technological developments and consequent changes in the way people think and behave.•Sci1.4a – sharing developments and common understanding across disciplines and boundaries.•Sci2.2a – Obtain record and analyse data from a wide range of primary and secondary sources.•Sci3.4a – geological activity is caused by chemical and physical processes •Sci3.4c – human activity and natural processes can lead to changes in the environment.•Sci4d – study science in local, national and global contexts, and appreciate the connections between these.Development of the workshop The workshop will be developed by At-Bristol and Dr Hugh Mortimer. Dr Mortimers expertise is in infrared spectroscopy and Earth observation instrumentation calibration. He is part of the team responsible for the management and operation of the SISTeR instrument, a radiometer that is currently operating from the Queen Mary 2 that monitors Sea Surface Temperatures . We will also film Dr Mortimer introducing his work and talking about research and key findings. We aim to pilot the workshop with two different school groups (60 students). This will ensure that the workshop achieves the stated aims and objectives and meets teachers’ and students’ needs. Following the pilot phase the workshop will become part of At-Bristol’s core offer for secondary schools. Secondary schools will then be able to book the workshop on an ongoing basis. We anticipate reaching c600 students per year.A variety of inspiring spaces within At-Bristol will be used during the workshop including the planetarium, At-Bristol’s purpose built classrooms and laboratories and the exhibition spaces, particularly ‘Our world’. The workshop will also give students the opportunity to use specialist data monitoring equipment. These combined factors will create a unique experience that is not possible in schools. The two hour workshop will comprise:•0.5 hour ‘Earth observation and global remote sensing’•1.5 hours ‘data collection, analysis and presentation’Earth observation and global remote sensingMaking observations of the Earth from space enables scientists to develop and improve their models of our environment. Space instruments provide long term global measurements, allowing climate change and environmental changes happening regionally and globally to be tracked. RAL Space Centre scientists contribute to and underpin UK and international programmes in environmental science through the provision of research expertise, services and facilities in support of the UK science community. With input from Dr Hugh Mortimer, the work of RAL Space Centre Research Scientists will be brought to life for students through incoorporating two RAL Space Centre, Earth observation projects as case studies in the workshop: ENVISAT (ENVIronmental monitoring SATellite ) and SISTeR (Scanning Infrared Sea Surface Temperature Radiometer).At-Bristol will showcase ENVISAT and SISteR in the unique setting of our Planetarium. The session, led by At-Bristol’s expert science communicators, will use videos of RAL Space Centre Research Scientists and specially created animations to explain how the polar-orbiting ENVISAT satellite captures images of our world and the importance of information obtained at this scale in understanding our world. Geo-stationary orbits will also be discussed.SISTeR will be used as an example of innovative remote sensing techniques that do not employ satellite technology.Data collection, analysis and presentationUsing research grade data collection equipment (dataloggers, sensors, probes etc.), students will have the opportunity to design, plan and lead their own investigations. They will set their own investigation criteria, collect and analyse their data, and present their findings to their peers. Data collection may include, but is not limited to temperature, carbon dioxide and UV radiation at different areas both inside and outside the At-Bristol venue. Students will also have access to data collected through the ‘Our world’ exhibition, and real research data from ENVISAT and SISTeR to analyse and to compare to their own research. Students will consider how environmental monitoring at a local level links with Earth observation on a global scale. Project timeline•August 11 – Project partners meet, brainstorm workshop development, agree actions•September – October 11 – Front end evaluation with schools and recruitment for pilot workshops•October – December 11 – Workshop development •January 12– February 12 – Delivery of pilot workshops•February – March 12 – Post-pilot development•April – July 12 – Delivery to 10 schools or 300 students•Ongoing marketing, recruitment and evaluation – see separate sheet