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Credits

The preparation of the seeing science CD-ROM and web has been an exciting collaboration between teachers, science advisers, scientists and designers.

Science and Technology Facilities Council would especially like to thank the following for their outstanding help and commitment to the project:


Developers

CD Authoring and Interactive Games

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Video Production

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KS3 Lessons

Space

Janine Carter Key Stage 3 consultant Oxfordshire County Council
Andrew Dack Park House School, Newbury
Katrina Farthing Lord William's School, Thame
Joanna Hamill Bartholomew School, Eynsham
Jonathan James Key Stage 3 consultant Oxfordshire County Council
Rachel Linskell Gillot's School, Henley-on-Thames
Lynne Pebworth Key Stage 3 consultant Oxfordshire County Council


Bright Light

Henrietta Grice KeyStage 3 consultant Cheshire County Council
Mike Harris KeyStage 3 consultant Cheshire County Council


Champion Chocolate

Peter Caulfield The Bishops' Blue Coat CE High School, Chester
Elizabeth Cullen Helsby High School, Warrington
Jean Morris Helsby High School, Warrington


Watching Cement Set

Sam Mothersdale Christleton High School, Chester
Patricia Richards Christleton High School, Chester


Keeping Food Safe

Sue Cooke Christleton High School, Chester
Phillipa Howe St David's School, Wrexham


Anthrax

Kristy Baldwin Tarporley Community High School, Tarpoley
James Blackford Tarporley Community High School, Tarpoley


Sulphur Dioxide

Tony Sherborne CSE Sheffield Hallam University
Fiona Silcock Blacon High School, Chester
Debbie Woodland Ellesmere Port Catholic High School, Ellesmere Port


How Plants Guzzle

Jackie Birks Rudheath High School, Northwich
Dafydd Jones Rudheath High School, Northwich


Our thanks to the Schools Advisory Panel members:

Andrew Dack Park House School, Newbury
Barbara McGowan Careers Research and Advisory Centre
Christine Dunsdon Chilton Primary School, Didcot
Martin Tust The Grange Comprehensive School, Runcorn
Stuart Webster Senior Science Advisor Cheshire County Council
Lorelly Wilson Independent advisor
Lynne Pebworth

Key Stage 3 consultant Oxfordshire County Council



KS4 Lessons

All the lessons were devised by a small team of teachers and consultants

Emma Taylor The Marlborough School, Woodstock
Zoe Spavold Carterton Community College
Graham Hickford  Wallingford School, Wallingford/ John Mason School, Abingdon
Lynne Pebworth County Science Advisor, Oxfordshire
Ian Galloway  Deputy Director, Science Learning Centre, South East region



Acknowledgements:

KS3 

  • NASA and ESA for video clips and images;
  • QCA Enterprises for permission to use the SAT questions (answers only available on the CD-ROM);
    • Concept Cartoons for permission to use the Concept Cartoon*;
    • Tony Sherborne of the Centre for Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University for help with Outbreak;
    • C4 TV for permission to use the cartoon. The History of Vaccinations*, in the Anthrax section;
    • Also thanks to Nanoworld for permission to use micrographs of everyday images in the Bright Light section;
    • British Cement Association for permission to use images of concrete structures, TRL for permission to use image of collapsed bridge, BRE for permission to use image of Ronan point and WEEKS Laboratories who allowed filming of concrete testing in their premises, all in Watching Cement Set;
    • Medical Research Council for permission to use magnified images in the Keeping Food Safe section;
    • Cadbury Schweppes for archive film used in Champion Chocolate, and;
    • HPA Collingdale for permission to film sequences of the Spread of Epidemic clip in their laboratories in the Anthrax section

*available on the CD-ROM|

KS4

  • NASA, especially for infrared images used in Red Hot;
  • ESA especially for pictures for Space rockets and Nanotechnology;
  • AOES Medialab and NASA, ESA and the Hubble heritage team (STSc1/Aura) ESA/Hubble collaboration for images and graphics for Space rockets;
  • Peter Hingley, Librarian at the Royal Astronomical Society and Helen Walker for the pages from Herschel's notebooks and permission to use these;
  • Ian Ross at Key Med for the endoscope pictures used in Nanotechnology;
  • Spanner Films for permission to use the section from 'Baked Alaska'.
  • Health Protection Agency for kind permission to use information and data from the report 'Ionising Radiation Exposure of the UK population:2005 Review'

* available on the CD-ROM|