| personal-inquiry |
Description |
The Personal Inquiry (PI) project is a collaboration between the University of Nottingham
and researchers from CREET and KMi in The Open University. The aim of PI is to develop
a new approach of scripted inquiry learning in which students aged 11-14 can use personal
technologies to guide scientific investigations that span the classroom, home and
field locations.
Activities will be based around topic themes - Myself, My Environment, My Community
- that engage young learners in investigating their health, diet and fitness, their
immediate environment and their wider surroundings. These topics are key elements
of the new 21st century science curriculum that requires students to reason about
the natural sciences as a complex system and to explore how people relate to the physical
world.
Other partners include Hadden Park High School in Nottingham, Oakgrove School in Milton
Keynes, ScienceScope, a company that develops sensing and datalogging equipment, Nottingham
Museums and Galleries, Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre and Gulliver's Eco-Park,
Milton Keynes.
PI is a three year project funded by the UK ESRC and EPSRC research councils. |
