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

神奇的塑料-或如何赚到你的第一个百万：GCSE水平的学生着迷于他们的生活在5年的时间里会有多么不同。这次演讲为他们的未来提供了一个愿景：要么作为最新高分子材料高科技应用的消费者，要么作为研究材料、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要素的要求。它将带领学生了解聚合物的基本特性，以及如何将其转化为研究和开发可以为特定目的设计材料的概念，以及商业是建立在这种开发的基础上的。最初的神奇塑料演讲非常受欢迎，在4年内有2.5万人观看。这次演讲将借鉴其中的精华，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，突出科学如何解决问题并找到解决方案，然后通过企业为每个人提供解决方案。通过这种方式，学生们将认识到科学是通往职业机会的途径。作为纪念，每位观众将获得一支由回收塑料杯制成的铅笔。在专门讨论环境问题、回收和生物降解塑料之后，这被证明是一个特别有效的结束谈话的方式。应已主持讲座的教师的要求，我们将根据讲座内容开发出符合GCSE新要求的工作表资源包。这将允许教师设置后续工作来巩固知识，无论是在课堂上还是作为家庭作业。神奇的塑料——或者说黏液的科学——年轻人喜欢黏液。由于许多人要求为年轻观众提供基于神奇塑料的活动，这个项目将为喜欢黏液的年轻人开发终极演示讲座和实践活动，带他们了解聚合物的日常应用，从尿布到口香糖，再到更未来的可能性。最后的“制作和拿走”活动将允许他们制作自己的黏液和马桶油灰或橡皮球。同样应老师的要求，我们将制作一套活动表，以便他们可以重新审视演示和与孩子们一起动手的活动中的想法。

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.