Children Challenging Industry

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Children Challenging Industry

• By
• Chemical Industry Education Centre at the
  University of York
• Project Manager
• Joy Parvin

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Aims
To improve primary school childrens perception
of the chemical industry and its relationship
with science
To provide classroom-based training for teachers
in the teaching of the National Curriculum for
science.
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Project elements

• Cluster meeting

• Staff meeting/training

• 3 classroom-based INSET sessions

• Site visit (incl. training feedback for
  personnel)

• Evaluation

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In the Regions

• Merseyside
• Humber Bank
• Tees Valley
• West Yorkshire

• January 2000
• September 2000
• September 2000
• September 2001

• By July 2001, between the 3 regions
• 3500 children from 144 schools.

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Who works in industry?
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The Production of Medicines
NOT at Grimsby
At Grimsby
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What are you going to see?

• Laboratories - where Scientists work!
• A Workshop Stores - where Engineers work!
• Water Cooling Towers - to cool hot water made
  hot by Heat Exchange!
• A Factory - Where we make Medicines!

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Enough water in 1 year to fill
Only 105 to go!

• Wembley Stadium 7 times

• 106 swimming pools

• 281,000,000 milk bottles

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This costs as much as

• a very fast car

• 28,000 cd singles

• 370,000 Pokémon cards

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Where does our water come from?

• We have two sources at Akcros
• From North West Water
• From a well on the site

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The Water Cycle
Cloud Storage
Rain
Evaporation
Reservoir
Ocean
Water Treatment Works
River
Akcros
Houses
Sewage Treatment Works
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Classroom organisation
6 or 7 teams of scientists

• administrative officer
• personnel manager
• resources manager
• scientist
• engineer
• communications manager

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Water for Industry

• Letter from Industry asking for advice
• Muddy water challenge
• Cooling hot liquids
• Model heat exchanger
• Leaky pipelines

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• Industrial story water is transported by
  pipeline from a reservoir to an industrial site,
  used as cooling water and return to the river.
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• Science materials (for a water pipeline and
  sealants), filtration and heat exchange.

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A Pinch of Salt

• Memo from director of Sodachlor Chemicals
• Salt as a de-icer
• Salt from salty water using evaporation
• Salt for my chips from a sample of rock salt

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• Industrial story rock salt is mined and pumped
  from below ground. It is used as a de-icer in
  winter. Salt solution can be chemically changed
  to provide many basic ingredients for the
  chemical industry.
•  Science an investigative approach is adopted,
  and children learn about melting, dissolving,
  evaporation, filtration, crystals, corrosion,
  effect of salt water on plants, electrolysis
  (simple introduction).

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Plastics Playtime

• Bertie Bottle Bank Recycling Company
• Sorting and identifying plastics by properties
• Effective packaging investigation
• Design and post a parcel

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• Industrial story plastics are made on
  industrial sites. The focus is on expanding and
  moulding polystyrene. The origin of plastics as
  oil is discussed.
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• Science materials - identification, properties
  (heat insulation, sound insulation, shock
  absorption), fitness for purpose, how materials
  can be changed.

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Practical session in industry
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A successful site visit
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Comments from industrialists

• We found that some of our staff had an innate
  talent for relating to children for example,
  explaining how many Pokemon cards they could buy
  with the money we spend on water each year!
• (Ursula Melia, Akcros Chemicals)

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Comments from teachers

• The children have been inspired by the subject
  matter.
• Miss P James,Head teacher, St Marys C of E
  School
• I learned that science is so much more exciting
  when taught with a purpose.
• Miss Angela Lee, Lister Drive Juniors

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And finally pupils
This has changed my mind about hating science. I
would like to do it every Friday! John Graves,
Y6