PHYSICS EDUCATION PROJECT

  • Wishart, Jocelyn M (Principal Investigator)

Project Details

Description

PEEP stands for Physics & Ethics Education Project. It is an interactive website and virtual learning environment for secondary school science teachers and their students. It is a teaching resource developed to highlight the moral, ethical, social, economic, environmental and technological implications and applications of physics.

PEEP aimed to
Provide up to date and balanced information that students can use to develop their arguments when debating or discussing ethical issues in science.
Raise science teachers’ confidence in dealing with ‘difficult’ topics, uncertainty and debate.
Facilitate students’ and teachers‘ discussions of these issues.
Enhance students’ learning of the science topics involved.
Help equip students to evaluate many sided arguments and come to their own conclusions.
AcronymPEEP
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/09/071/09/09

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