By Watching Click this morning Kate Russell recommended a site called Planet Scicast.
Planet SciCast started life as an idea from TV kids science producer Jonathan Sanderson, who has worked on programmes like How2 and Big Bang.
Planet Scicast is partnered with NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, ETB, the Engineering and Technology Board, IOP, the Institute Of Physics and Planet Science, a website from NESTA.
Planet Scicast is four things:
- Some training in schools on how to make mini movies of science demonstrations.
- A big UK wide competition to get children, young people, teachers, parents, science communicators and science/engineering/technology professionals all making mini movies to send in to Planet SciCast.
- A web resource of all those movies and the written up activities and experiments, for the use and amusement of all the above.
- Finally, a discussion about who's job it is to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers with entertaining science related material.
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