Inspiring Science- Primary School

Initiative

Inspiring Science• In 2008, Science in Society hosted 15 "inspiring science" shows at the Magee, Jordanstown and Coleraine campuses for primary school children, aged 9-11 in Northern Ireland.

• 4848 pupils from 106 schools attended the events.

• The aim of the inspiring science initiative was to promote science to P6 and P7 primary school children in a fun and interesting way and to run a “inspiring science” young scientist of the year 2008 competition.

•The "Young Scientist" competition involved children carrying out a piece of hypothesis driven research (of their own choice) and reporting on it.  

“The 'Magical Science & Engineering Show' is not a show for thetimid as it involves erupting volcanoes, vats of giant bubbles,

buckets of oozy slime, magical colour changes and disappearingacts, but most of all lots of whizz bang explosions!!

Sue McGrath - a scientist turned magician-of-sorts - delivers a wacky, energetic and dramatic performance which not only 

delivers real experiential learning opportunities based on the world around us, but also touches on the serious message of the

repercussions of human activity on the global environment.The show aims to stimulate curiosity and imagination within your pupils

so they ultimately leave the show wanting to embark on their own science journey of discovery!”

Electricity, Gravity, Energy and Forces, Molecules, Reactions, Compounds, Acids/Alkali, Friction, Sound, Recycling

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“It was very important to

learn… I loved it!!!”

“It was absolutely amazing” “It was

fantastic and I learned a lot of

things.”

“It was the best science show

EVER!”

“It was the best show I’ve ever

seen”

“Thank – you very much…

after I watched the show I now know science isn’t boring”

“It was very good and I hope you can

inspire more schools and it couldn’t have

been any better… Thank you!”“It was weird

wacky and wonderful”

“I thought it was Brilliant,

Excellent, very, very Good “

“100%”

“I would love to see it again”

“It was amazing… I now want to be a scientist

when I’m older”

5 *

Student Evaluations

Thank you for the fun stuff we learnt about science, it was SO

COOL!!

Teacher Evaluations

Thank you! A great show!!

We loved the show…

Thank you

Excellent delivery:

Kept children's attention

Thank you

V. enjoyable

I feel that the benefit of the show was that

children became enthused by science and this was certainly

achieved!

Well done

Great use of every day items found easily for

us to use at school & home

Scientist Sue was brilliant - a great rapport with pupils –

Super

Excellent! Fun filled Science!!

The scientific concepts content chosen were an excellent choice

Excellent idea for a show – Sue kept the kids

spell-bound & interested

Thank youFabulous

Well timed Safety conscious

All schools had at least 1 participant. You can see

the students’ really enjoyed themselves

The children realised that science is

both exciting & interesting

Super fun for Kids