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Barbara Higginbotham(left) of Data Harvest and a delegate at ASE 2010. This year, Data Harvest was exhibiting its award-winning data logger at BETT, as well as staging a data logging surgery for the entirety of the conference.
HOLDSASTAR-STUDDED 2011 CONFERENCE
THEASE
“THEWORK you do as a science teacher is amongst one of themost important things in our society,” said LordWinston. The surgeon, scientist, TV presenter and politician spoke at the members’ reception evening on the first full day of the four-day conference of theAssociation of Science Education held in January. He told the members and their
guests that nothing is as important as raising the next generation of literate children in a healthy manner. Well known for presenting many BBC television series including
The organisation were also exhibiting theXLlogger, the innovative data logging systemwith no batteries and wires, which won the innovative award at 2010Worlddidac.
Oxford-based Earthwatch offers scientific field research expeditions for schools and colleges to around 70 conservation projects around the world. Since 1971 this organisation has attracted over 93,000 global supporters, volunteers, scientists and educationalists to commit nearly 11million hours to conservation field work.
the BAFTAaward winner The Human Body, LordWinston holds many other academic positions, including professor of science and society at Imperial College London. Perhaps even more well known
for TV broadcasting, Sir David Attenborough also graced the event with his presence, giving a keynote lecture entitled The Natural Curriculum: Inspiring children to learn with nature. He said when he was young he was free to explore the countryside
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around his home, discovering butterflies and beetles or uncovering fossils millions of years old. Today, most children grow up having very little direct contact with the natural world. Held at Reading University, the
ASE Conference attracted over 3,000 delegates to its full programme of 400 lectures and seminars whose variety was absolutely amazing – from Biology in the RealWorld: Biofuels – driving forward the possibilities to The Adolescent Brain.
Teach science anywhere in your school with this fully-functionalmobile science laboratory on the stand of ITEC Limited whose business includes supplying science equipment to African countries.
Over 140 suppliers exhibited
their products and services, but the wisdom of staging an event so close to Christmas and Siberian weather conditions was not questioned and in 2012 the ASE annual event will take place in Liverpool, once again in early January.
Heliocentris was demonstrating its DrFuelCellmodel car which integrates the subject of renewable energies for secondary education, claiming its pre-configured experimentsmake learning science fun.
Amodel of an ultrastrong, electrically conducting carbon nanotube. A nanometre is a billionth of ametre so a human hair is about 80,000 nanometres
across.The picture is froma leafletQuickGuideson Nanotechnologyfor teachers, published by by theTriple Science Support Programme and the UK Research Councils.
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