Concept Cartoons Competition
The special celebration day for the competition was held on 3 July.
The following schools were the Winning Schools:
Competition Overview
Get your Year 4-8 pupils to carry out a science project;
Come to a big celebration event;
Win science equipment for your school
 This
leaflet gives you a choice of 3 projects.
This pdf file was originally a folded A3 document and so the page
order runs 4, 1, 2, 3, therefore print on A4 paper and place back
to back or print double sided and then fold in half to create an
A5 leaflet.
- Adobe
Acrobat PDF, 289kb/2 pages, comp_cartoon.pdf
The children should select one investigation to do and write
a small report on their work. The report is to be in a set
format of 8 pages
but we are hoping for flair and innovation. The choice of projects
is based on Concept Cartoons and the children can pick whatever
aspects they like to investigate. Concept Cartoons are being
used
by many schools as an effective way of developing the children's
understanding of science
- www.conceptcartoons.com
We hope that several groups of children in a class or in the school
will take part and they should ideally work in teams of up to 5
per project. Once the projects are complete the school must to decide
which is the best one - this could be your decision or you
might like to hold a special event and ask parents, teachers and
governors to make a selection. We would like to encourage you to
do this so that every child involved, feels that their contribution
is valued. The SETPOINT team can help you organise your school event
and offer assistance with assessment.
Your chosen team and their teacher are then invited to a special
celebration event at the GlaxoSmithKline site in Stevenage on Wednesday
3 July. People will talk to the children about their projects,
look at the reports and overall winners will be selected. There
will also be a fun challenge activity and a science show.
For the winning schools there will be prizes of up to £250 each
for equipment chosen from microscopes, data loggers or an iCam flexible
video camera.
All of the projects can be used to obtain national Young Investigator
awards or Bronze CREST awards. SETPOINT Hertfordshire can advise
on how to do this. If you choose to take part in the challenge
you must register your interest by 21 March.
The Hertfordshire School Improvement & Advisory
Service, GlaxoSmithKline and SETPOINT Hertfordshire (formerly Herts
SATRO) are working together to encourage and celebrate good science
in schools.
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