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This programme aims to encourage and prepare UC Science students to be the next generation of science communicators and teachers. Christchurch secondary school classes are given the opportunity to have expert scientists co-develop and co-deliver exciting lesson plans in their classrooms.

UC College of Science Students:

• Develop work-ready skills via workshops on team dynamics, networking, lesson plan design, science communication, and more.
• Gain valuable experience in planning impactful science communication and science learning activities for classroom settings
• Learn to communicate effectively in the workplace, particularly with regard to working with others in a team and working with external stakeholders
• Work with a professional academic mentor in their field to deepen their knowledge of effective scientific communication techniques within their field and context
• Recognise, analyse, and apply knowledge and skills within their bachelor鈥檚 degrees to real-world scenarios through their internship at their partner school
• Learn how to be Scientists in Schools

Partner Secondary Schools:

• Secondary students interact with real scientists in the classroom and participate in authentic and personal science experiences, and learn that they themselves can already be Scientists in Schools
• Teachers gain access to scientific experts (both their partner SIS intern and their intern鈥檚 professional academic mentor) and resources to assist in developing new, innovative lesson plans according to their classroom needs

Scientists in Schools is an internship placement partner for the PACE 295 and PACE395 Professional and Community Engagement Internship courses. Interns complete their work independently and with their professional mentor on location at the 茄子视频app官网 Ilam campus. As part of the course load, the UC Science student:

• Attends general professional development workshops given by the PACE team
• Attends internship-specific professional development workshops given by the Scientists in Schools team
• Is paired with a local secondary school teacher as a 鈥渃lient鈥� based on the student鈥檚 field of expertise and the teacher鈥檚 needs
• Is paired with a professional academic mentor from the UC Faculty to assist the student with pedagogical knowledge in the context of the field
• Develops and delivers a repeatable, innovative lesson plan according to the partner teacher鈥檚 needs
• Completes a minimum of 70 hours of internship-related work (140 for PACE395), including development of the lesson plan as well as SIS- and self-led education on effective and equitable science communication strategies
• Submits a reflection and evaluation of their internship experiences in the context of delivering scientific education in schools, and in the context of broader employment settings

In our inaugural pilot programme, UC College of Science | Te Kura Aronukurangi students developed an exciting variety of lesson plans for teachers at four partner schools. In each case, lesson plans have been designed to be repeatable and are now available to partner teachers as resources for their classroom.

Avonside Girls鈥� High School students learned about solar radiation by taking their own measurements with scientific equipment. Through these experiments, they learned not only about how solar radiation varies with weather and environmental context, but also how to confidently operate scientific instruments, how to obtain robust and unbiased scientific data, and, most importantly, how science can apply to your everyday life.

Te Aratai College students examined how animals adapt to their environment via hands-on activities, examining the bone and body structures of real animals and considering why these adaptations may have come about, as well as the 鈥淚magine an Animal鈥� activity in which the students got to design a creature ideal to an environment.

At Hagley College, students got outdoors to learn about insects in their own backyard of Hagley Park. The students learned best practices for deploying insect traps 鈥� what types of traps work for what insects, where to deploy traps to catch insects effectively, and more 鈥� and then put this into practice, capturing insects over several days. The students then got to identify, categorize, and preserve what they caught, giving them insight into the biodiversity of the local insect population, and how this biodiversity keeps the environment healthy.

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Are you a teacher looking to expand your classroom resources? Scientists in Schools participants have developed lesson plans on the following topics:

• Volcanic rocks and volcanic eruptions/What makes a useful scientific sketch?
• Animal environmental adaptations and anatomy
• Solar radiation/Gathering quality scientific data
• Insect trapping, counting, and identification

If you are interested in any of these subjects for your classroom, please reach out to our team!

We thank the Tait Foundation for their support of the Scientists in Schools Internship Programme.