Session 2: Science education - thinking outside the box

2.4 Ignition*: encouraging young pupils to regard STEM as creative subjects
Rick Hall, Ignite!, UK

Abstract
Ignition* is a three year programme of creative approaches to the learning and teaching of STEM subjects involving teachers, students, parents, artists, scientists, inventors, designers, engineers, film-makers, writers and journalists. Examples of programmes piloted in East Midlands region, UK, will be presented: Cosmos uses theatre to explore the science of the universe; Little Egg is a film animation made by children about evolution and bio-diversity; and Lab_13 is a space in a school managed by students where their experiments are driven by curiosity and imagination under the guidance of an Inventor in Residence.