PPE:Mr Beetle's Watery Adventure

《甲虫先生的水上冒险》是一个针对小学第二阶段（7 - 11岁）学生的节目。它以水为主题，但通过听故事、弹四弦琴、唱《甲虫先生》的兴奋感来吸引学生。甲虫先生实际上是巴里·帕特森，一位经验丰富的儿童教育家，他打扮成一只非常有说服力的甲虫，通过故事、歌曲、科学演示和大量的观众参与来吸引学生。这个项目的独特之处在于，它通过讲故事的方式发挥作用——这在科学界是罕见的——并邀请孩子们想象生活在一个水的世界里是什么样子，而不是简单地展示水的特性。重点是我们如何以及为什么理解水，以及我们如何通过研究发现新的事实，以及世界上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去“发现”老师已经知道的东西。为了帮助教师的工作，我们还将制作一个教学资源包，教师可以使用它来帮助学生巩固他们通过节目所学到的知识。教师的反馈表明，这样的资源对他们有相当大的价值。因此，这个申请是为非常成功的项目“甲虫先生的水上冒险”的进步和发展项目提供资金，该项目由EPSRC PPE奖资助，通过该奖项，原始节目得以创作，并在9个月的时间里访问了25所小学，学校没有任何费用。这个项目现在的目的是让更多的孩子从这种增强的科学体验中受益，而不管学校的财政状况如何。

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.