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Students will be finding out about the researchers and technical staff in this lesson.
Lesson Resources
- List of the top five criteria chosen in Lesson 1: You’re the Judges!
- Printed copies of some of the researchers’ and technical staff profiles – there are 25 MRC researchers and technical staff on the site, so it may be best to have a look before the lesson and print the profiles of the people you would like to focus on in your subject.
- Generated student registration link for students to access the site from home to complete homework
Starter
Class discussion (you could put the zone home page on the screen as a stimulus here)
- What did the students find out in their homework?
- Whose profiles did they look at?
- What do they think of the researchers and technical staff so far?
- Have any of your students’ questions been answered yet?
- Write a list of questions you could ask to find out more about the researchers and technical staff – keep these for the next activity.
Main activity – speed dating!
1. Split students into groups – give each group a printed profile to read through together.
– What do they think about this person? What would they like to ask them on the site?
2. Split each group in half (As and Bs).
– As stay where they are as their researcher or technical staff member.
– Bs move to another group to ‘interview’ a different person (they can use the questions formed in the starter for this).
3. Move students on after a few minutes so they can interview as many people as possible.
Plenary
Class discussion (you could put the zone home page on the screen as a stimulus here)
- What do they think of the researchers and technical staff they have “met” today?
- Write a list of questions to ASK researchers and technical staff on the site.
- Brief students about the live chat lesson.
Suggested Homework
Students log on and ASK at least one question.
If students haven’t set up their accounts yet, generate student registration link and share it with the class.