Online (Link to the session will be provided after registration)
To book a place click hereCalling all secondary school teachers.
Learn more about how Materials Science its relevance to the secondary school curriculum and how your pupils can engage with it as a career pathway or university course choice, by joining in our first online Discover Materials Teacher Engagement Session.
1600 – 1625 What is MSE and who we are
An overview of what Materials Science and Engineering is and who Discover Materials are, what they can do to help support both teacher and students and an introduction to their new website.
1625 – 1650 Activity 1 – TestATunnocks
Learn more about how breaking chocolate bars can help explain concepts in MSE.
1650 – 1700 Break
1700 – 1725 Activity 2 – Super Surfaces
Explore the objects around you using a clip-on microscope lens and learn how the surface structure of an object can be used to control the properties of a material.
1725 – 1800 Materials Science question and answer session
A session where an expert panel (including Diane Aston, IOM3 and members of the Discover Materials Working Group) will answer your questions and discuss the relevance of materials science to the current school curriculum and both teachers and students.
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