Mr Beetle Feels the Force

《甲虫先生感受原力》是一部针对小学年龄段学生的电视剧，主要面向7 - 11岁的学生。它是根据教师的要求开发的，这些教师已经看到了他们的学生观看早期EPSRC资助的项目“甲虫先生的水上冒险”的积极经验，并特别要求制作一个涉及“力量”主题的节目。这是一个众所周知的课程领域，小学教师发现很难覆盖，许多人缺乏信心。该节目将集中在力的主题而是通过听甲虫先生讲故事、弹尤克里里琴、唱歌的兴奋来吸引学生。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，它通过讲故事的媒介来工作--在科学界很少见--并邀请孩子们想象生活在昆虫世界里是什么样子，在那里他以戏剧性的方式感受和回应力-一根简单的树枝变成昆虫的跷跷板，一颗落下的橡子是危及生命的事件，克服摩擦力将食物拉进巢穴是一项重大的任务。重点是我们如何以及为什么以我们的方式理解力，以及我们如何通过研究发现新的事实，世界上还有很多东西有待发现。这对青少年来说是很难得的，因为他们通常需要“发现”老师已经知道的东西。为了协助老师的工作，我们亦会制作一个教学资源套，让老师可以帮助学生巩固他们在节目中学到的东西。通过我们以前的项目，教师的反馈表明，这样的资源是相当有价值的，他们。因此，这个应用程序是进步和发展的资金的基础上，成功ofr非常成功的项目甲壳虫先生的水上冒险，由EPSRC PPE奖资助，通过该原始节目创建，并继续访问125所小学超过30个月，没有任何费用的学校。该项目现在旨在让更多的孩子从这种增强他们的科学经验中受益，无论学校的财政状况如何。来自教师的反馈表明，他们的科学预算不足以支付任何提高活动和免费活动，如这是非常欢迎的。

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.