Research Physicists Encouraging Outreach into Primary Schools

申请者是一个由杰出的凝聚态物理学家和天体物理学家组成的团队，他们创建了一个由物理研究所托管的网站，其中包含用于小学演示的材料。本材料的目标是工作的物理学家谁是热衷于吸引小学生在物理相关的推广，但不确定如何开始这一点。报告使全班都参与到活动中来。这个网站受到了有过小学经历的人的广泛欢迎。然而，这些演讲与物理学家们熟悉的讲座形式有很大的不同，因此需要进一步的支持来帮助那些第一次这样做的人。这个应用程序解决了这一需求，使我们以前的外展项目中正在开发的材料变得有用，并可供更广泛的受众使用。为三种类型的额外用户支持寻求资金：(1)向一个班级提供的演示视频剪辑将被添加到网站上，(2)为科学和工程大使（SEAs）和物理研究所感兴趣的成员提供培训课程，以及(3)为网站用户提供多对多电子邮件网络。该网站将根据收到的意见进行更新。

The applicants are a team of distinguished condensed matter physicists and astrophysicists who have created a web site hosted by the Institute of Physics that contains material for presentations in primary schools. This material is aimed at working physicists who are keen to engage primary school children in physics-related outreach, but are unsure how to get started on this.The presentations involve the whole class in activities. The site has been widely welcomed by people who already have experience of going into primary schools. However, the presentations are sufficiently different from the lecture format with which working physicists are familiar that further support will be needed to assist those who will be doing this for the first time.This application addresses that need, allowing the material that is being developed in our previous outreach project to be made useful and accessible to a much wider audience. Funding is sought for three types of additional user support: (1) video clips of the presentations being given to a class which will be added to the web site, (2) training sessions for Science and Engineering Ambassadors (SEAs) and interested members of the Institute of Physics, and (3) an email many-to-many network for users of the site. The site will be updated in view of comments received.