Thank You!

Alas, the main development phase of Science for Sustainability is at an end.

We wish to thank all who have taken part or have expressed an interest. This includes:

• Derek Raine (piCETL Director, UoL)
• Kuzvinetsa Dzvimbo (Rector, AVU 2003-2007)
  
• All at the African Virtual University (including Peter Bateman and Amanda Hopkins)
• The Higher Education Academy - Education for Sustainable Development Small Projects Team (including Heather Witham)
  
• The UoL Teaching Enhancement Forum (including Liz Grant and John Fothergill)
  
• The UoL I-Science Team (including Jan Zalasiewicz, Alan Cann, Sarah Symons and David Harper)
• The HEA Physical Sciences Subject Centre (including Paul Chin)
  
• Andy Johnston at Forum for the Future
  
• Eddie Morrison (Environment and Ecology Graduate, UoL)
  
• Divaker Shikotra (Physics Graduate, UoL and his sister!)
• Tracey Parker (UoL, piCETL Outreach Officer)
  
• Victoria Bennett (Postdoc, Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, U.S.A.
  
• Emily Perkins (Physics Teacher, Wreake Valley Community College)
• The UoL Physics Undergraduate competition entrants
• Pupils at Wreak Valley Community College
• Anne Price (Physics Teacher) and pupils at Leicester Grammar School
• and everyone else we came across along the way!

It has been an interesting 9 months or so. Has it only been that long? It seems so much has happened. When we started Education for Sustainable Development seemed relatively unknown, in the UK at least. Now its on everyone's lips!

We've had a lot of fun with the project but its been very hard work too! There will be time later for more meaningful reflection...

For now, the next 'phase' of the project has moved to:

www.ourplanetearth.org

We sincerely wish you all the best with your own work. Thanks again for being interested in ours. Please do stay in touch!

Very best wishes,



The s4s team.

Many Voices

One of the most surprising aspect of s4s is how much people jump on board. This was always the whole point and we’ve worked hard to encourage this but its still a revelation when something spontaneous happens which was never planned or even imagined.

Recently we took the games we developed in the competition to local schools.

The first school our road show (!) visited was Wreake Valley Community College where our long time collaborator Emily Perkins teaches Physics. Eddie Morrison (Research Assistant), Sarah Jones (Physics Undergraduate), Emma Tebbs (Physics Undergraduate) and Tracey Parker (I-Science Outreach Officer) as well as Emily all lent a hand. Fifteen ‘mixed’ young people at the College came along to play the games. We were surprised by the great ideas they had to make the games more playable.

The second school the road show stopped at was Leicester Grammar School. Eddie, Mrs. Anne Price (Physics Teacher) and Sarah Jones again all helped out. Eight again ‘mixed’ young people were really interested in the games.

In terms of popularity we reckon the ranking for the games is:

1. Fish Eagle

2. Survival
3. Henry’s Game
4. Jumbe

Eddie has been working hard on adding all of the new ideas to the games! These are about to be unveiled at the Higher Education Academy, Education for Sustainable Development conference in Bradford tomorrow (Tuesday 10th July) and Wednesday. In fact this post is being written the night before!

The next, really important, stage is to now package everything together ready for TESSA/the AVU to make them available to yet more voices in Sub-Saharan Africa.

We are really looking forward to what these truly crucial voices also have to say!

Thanks so much to all who have been involved so far.