Keynote Speaker Ian Stuart; founder of Atomic School
Imagine teaching the Periodic Table to your Year 1 students!
The latest research shows that primary students can understand much more advanced scientific ideas than we realise, that primary teachers can teach it, and that both love it.
Ian Stuart taught high school Chemistry and Physics for 25 years before migrating these subjects into primary schools where he now believes the greatest potential for educational change exists.
Primary students who learn Atomic Theory early can deepen their understanding of the physical world around them, how life works (including their own bodies) and help solve future scientific problems to save our planet. The Periodic Table, for example, is a kind of alphabet, so primary students who internalise this language of modern science will enjoy a greater success in their science education as they progress to high school, then university, then a career and citizenship. Indeed, research shows that students also make career decisions around the age of 10 years, so capturing their scientific imaginations at this early age will increase the uptake of scientific career paths.
Atomic Theory is easy, and primary teachers and students can understand it. Primary school students are in the “age of enthusiasm” and their uninhibited love of learning will shine brighter than ever when they learn Atomic Theory and apply it to their own lives.
This presentation will be fun, hands-on and useful.
