• Question: many kids dont like science, if you where try and encourage children to take science and have a future with in it, how would you think about doing it ?

    Asked by ashleighbushy to Andrew, Ash, Gem, Paige, SJ on 27 Jun 2012.
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      Paige Brown answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      I would first think that students and kids LOVE movies and TV, so it would be great if there were more exciting shows and movies about science! That is what I want to do! I also think that schools and high schools should have more exciting equipment for students and kids to do fun science experiments, with microscopes and even nanomaterials!

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      SarahJayne Boulton answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Hey Ashleigh!

      This is EXACTLY what I’m trying to achieve with my Science app! It’s cool and everything going to schools to help encourage an interest in science but once I’ve left, there’s not really a lot of support for developing that interest. The App hopefully going to present loads of intructions and protocols for students like you to get involved with doing your own experiemnts at home (with out the need to write anything up if you don’t want to!!) so you can explore the things you find interesting!

      I’m hoping it might also help science teachers find ways of making their lessons more interesting by giving them ideas and resources to help out with lesson planning.

      It would be awesome if science was an interesting lesson on a day to day basis, not just during one offs. More Practicals!!

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      Ashley Cadby answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      That is probably the best question so far. Great name by the way, do you know you name means clearing in an Ash forest. It’s probably the best name in the English language. Anyway, I think with science you need to honest at tell people it’s not easy, but you also need tone really flexible. The greatest physics dude of all time was a guy called Feyman. He was really really clever, but he was clever not because he was good at maths (we was good at maths) he was clever because I never believed anything anyone told him with out questioning it. Because of that he learnt his science the way he needed to to understand the world. He tells of a story about a ball flying through a window, maths tells us that the ball follows an arc defined by an x^2 law. He realised the ball travels that way because it wants to use the least amount of energy to do what it needs to do. He ignored the maths until he understood the problem. Ok so who cares about throwing balls through windows. Later in life he used the same problem but with photons of light a realised they wanted to use as little energy as possible his theory was calleed quantum electro dynamics, and it’s as complicated as it is beautiful, but once he understood it because of the ball idea he found the maths easy. He won a Noble prize for it. His dad was the one who taught him to question everything. Einstein was the same, he thought about the problem first, the did the maths. To get back to your question if we want people to do science we should teach them to ask questions, I think teachers are scared of this. Once they can ask the questions then we can teach them how to find the answers.

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      Gemma Staite answered on 1 Jul 2012:

      I would encourage them to embrace it and try to make the most of the fact that they have to do it for so long anyway, but not to force it if they genuinely don’t enjoy it.

      I’d find out what they are interested in and find how science relates to that in order to try and increase there enjoyment of science

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