As part of JCT’s Festival of Professional Learning, from Saturday 25th March to Thursday 30th March 2023, the JCT Science team will facilitate three workshops. The first one, held on 27th March, is an interactive 'live' workshop with science students participating in the elective, 'Cooking up ways to develop students' engagement with sustainability'; the JCT Science team is inviting teachers, with their students, to join our live and interactive Science experience, using inquiry as an approach to investigate if bioplastics are a solution to traditional single-use plastics. We will also be joined by guest speakers Dr João Frias, a researcher of microplastics and Dr Nóirín Burke, the Director of Education at Galway Atlantaquaria Ltd.
On the 29th March, we will be joined by guest speakers Dr João Frias, a researcher of microplastics, Dr Nóirín Burke, the Director of Education at Galway Atlantaquaria Ltd. and Patrick Kirwan, a science teacher in Ardscoil na Mara in Waterford. We aim to empower teachers to support their students in moving from awareness to action around the topic of sustainability.
Finally, on March 30th, in collaboration with Dr Paddy Kavanagh from DIAS and ESERO, this workshop looks at how data within images released from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can help answer the question 'Is Galaxy formation a continuous process?'.
Materials for the workshops can be found below.