‘Teaching resources’ Archive

How to Punk your Science and Summer courses

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the Talk Science team with lots of exciting stuff happening. We have been on a mini UK tour working with the Museums Libraries and Archives council delivering our training course with Science ITT students and museum educators.
New resources coming soon….
We have been filming with the Science Museum in [...]

New Year’s resolutions

Happy New Year!
Is your New year’s resolution to brush up your classroom discussion running skills? If so help is at hand!
The Talk Science team will be running their teacher training course at venues across the UK in 2010. We will be sharing our  top tips on getting your students talking about hot science topics in [...]

Come and see us at the ASE conference

The Science Museum learning team will be at the ASE conference in Nottingham on the 7th, 8th and 9th january 2010.
We are delivering a number of sessions including a taster session of the Talk Science training course, and our classroom activity News+Views which lets students create Museum style displays on a contemporary science topic.
The full [...]

Give your students Swine Flu

Add a humerous twist to your discussions with Giant Microbes. Anyone who has been to our training course will know that we love the cute and cuddly bugs from STDs to sore throats and everything in between. And now they’ve added Swine Flu to the Giant Microbe family.  
Giant Microbes make fantastic talk objects which help manage classroom discussion becasue only [...]

Teachers’ Playtime at the Museum

“Bloomin’ Marvellous” – well thats what one teacher thought the Science Museum’s first late night opening exclusively for teachers. Nearly 600 teachers and educators packed out the third floor of the musem and were treated to a night of science shows, experiments, comedy, object handling and a chance to play in the world famous Launchpad [...]