Dear All,
Thanks for all your responses, they've been very helpful. All are pasted below.
Best wishes
Trudie
In the South East we have a network of museums, Science Links in Museum Education affectionately known as SLIME! We have held several training days and the notes from these days and other ideas for workshops re science are on the Renaissance South East website. http://www.museumse.org.uk/learning/Science.html We have also developed a generic resource for KS2 pupils which links science and citizenship - if you would be interested to learn more about this do get in touch.
At the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge we developed several science strands of learning. If you google “Th Anciencts Appliance of Science” and the “ Let There be Light, Fitzwilliam Museum” you will find case studies , outlines, web sites etc. Do come back to me if you would like any reports etc.
Firstly (as an ex teacher) I would look at your collections and resources, look at the National Curriculum, and ask some friendly local teachers what they would like to do but don't have the resources, or find a bit tricky teaching in the classroom - this then helps you to avoid duplicating something they can easily do without coming to you, and to create an audience for your activities etc. I have 'mapped' our collection here in relation to the primary national curriculum with the help of a couple of teachers - it helped a lot. Apologies if you have already done this kind of exercise.
There is an organisation called SETNET - science, engineering, technology and maths network. They have a national and regional presence, so if you go to their website, you should be able to find regional representatives and other info.
www.setnet.org.uk
I've just registered with the STEM directory, which is aiming to get everyone offering stem activities and resources registered, so that schools and colleges can find you via this directory. The closing date for registering initially was yesterday, but I'm sure that someone there would be able to advise.
You should get in touch with the team at the Royal Society who have small grants available for this sort of stuff and could probably offer you some guidance. Try Aosaf Afzal or Scott Keir. www.royalsoc.ac.uk
I have been doing similar myself and found that meeting with school science teachers has been beneficial as has looking at this website http://www.the-ba.net/the-ba/Events/NSEW/ which is to do with the National Science and Engineering Week. You’ll find lots of simple experiments to try if you search through the online resources. Of course National Curriculum online outlines key subjects covered for science at the different KS so that might also guide you. Hope this helps.
Have you tried this page http://www.stemcentres.org.uk/ it has links to the regional stem centres. Our regional centre The Oxford Trust has been very helpful to us. Our collection is also very varied. I think Intech may be your nearest from the list.
If you are interested in working with natural science collections and secondary students take a look at the following publication:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/files/pdfs/assets/sci-teachers-cons-report05.pdf
For information on STEM take a look at http://www.stemnet.org.uk/
Trudie Cole
Learning and Access Manager
Poole Museum
01202 262623
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