London Science Communication
for Global Talents- Overseas Internship -Ann Odchimar (D2, Hanaoka Lab)Sunkyung Choi (M2, Hanaoka Lab)

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Introduction about internship
Summary of daily activities
Final task during internship
Conclusion

1. Introduction
What was our internship about?
5 days (September 10th,2012 – September 14th, 2012)
internship in London Science Museum to learn how science iscommunicated to general audiences

What are our goals?
To learn about the connection between science and society
To get the skills to communicate interactively

2. Summary of daily activities
Monday 10th

9am

10am

Tuesday 11th

M & D meet andgreet - energy café

Dani's trail

Damien. fly zone 360
online resources - my officetry ear gongs -& heads up
Friday task

11am
News + Views WAI live
space (or FC)

1130
Antenna tour with
Kat

1230
1pm

imperial lunch withteam & Dani feedback from trail

Friday 14th

Audience researchpresentation (Hannah,
Francis Crick room)

merel & dee - tour
oramics & intro toparticipation projects

research & write
wonderful things, plus list
more objects that fall into
contemp science themes science communication
http://sciencemuseumdisco workshop with Aasiya &very.com/blogs/talkscience
Damien- things

lunch out with jane, micollunch w aasiya & Damien,
ant - deep blue

lunch

Damien. interactive
galleries LP, show at
230pm, (extensions),
PP, GDN.

blog, upload to flickr- be in at 9am
tomorrow
430pm

mystery boxes WAI live
space (or FC)
weblab tour- claire - meetgallery entrance
blog, flickr

Deep Sea IMAX(choice)plan day activities as
intro to museum foraudience grouplunch
1:30 Feel the force (Mtake)

330
4pm

discuss forces resourcesw eilidh - revo

show talking points cards(wai) now brainstorm
resource on forces - MMW

2pm

3pm

Thursday 13th

Damien. explainer teammeeting1030

12pm

Wednesday 12th

Lilly & Alex W- science
SUPERHUMAN workshop
night downstairs office (M@ wellcome with micol &take)jane

blog, flickr

plan day activities as
intro to museum foraudience group prep prespresent! Dana study

feedback w Ant - aurevoir

MONDAY 10th

Rocket Show
Exploring how rockets get in to space, what
they do when they are up there and how they
get back down again – all with the help of Sir
Isaac Newton.

SURPRISING!!!
Liked participation of audiences!

More spectacular than I
expected!
Excellent and easy tounderstand.
The kids love it!
Interesting and easy tounderstand.

TUESDAY 11th

Mystery boxes
What‟s inside the box?

An easy activity to improvethinking, discerning andcommunication skills.
We tried basic science methods to guess
what we don‟t know yet.
Mysterious !!! A first step tobe an excellent scientist
Gives a good analogy tocharacteristics of science“facts” and “theories”.
I really like the idea of not opening
the boxes in the end.

WEDNESDAY 12thForces and MMW gallery
TASK: We were asked to explain the concept of forces to under 13 kids
through objects from the Making the Modern World gallery.
• We chose the Grout „Tension‟
bicycle (1871) or the „ordinary
bicycle, to explain the concepts ofpush, pull and friction.

• The bicycle has no gears, thus we can easily demonstrate concepts ofpush and pull, and the resulting forward and backward motions. Thiscan also be used to explain Newton‟s first and third laws of “motion”,and “action and reaction”.
• A bicycle could be made to run on different surfaces (rough andsmooth) to explain friction force and demonstrate which surface ismore resistant to motion.

THURSDAY 13th

Science Communication Workshop

Learned how to attract and speak to theaudiences to make them understand.
Learned how to have audiences
understand and enjoy scientific contents

Fun! I thought it was nerve wracking but
I actually enjoyed!
There are a LOT of ways to communicate
and require skills and practice to do so.
Brilliant! Learned to prepare fordemonstration given only limited time.

3. Final task during internship
What was the task?
We were asked to plan an activity for an audience on the first day
in the museum.

Who are the audience?
High school students who are later going to be involved in thedevelopment of a Telecommunication gallery in the museum.

3. Final task during internship
now in science museum : our point of view
Horizontal
There are many ways to conduct
museum introduction toaudiences, and most activities
use horizontal explorations likestaying in same gallery.

3. Final task during internshipa new way to enjoy the museum
Interactive,Lively,Integrated
During our internship, we had achance to find objects from different
galleries that are strongly related.
Thus, we propose a new way toexplore the museum in a different
perspective.

Vertical3. Final task during internshipa new way to enjoy the museum• To realize the concept, we would like to introduce twomore activities within this concept.

Quiz on each floor• We first set a theme which objects and exhibitions fromdifferent galleries can be related to. For example, “theevolution of prosthetics” could be a theme.
• The activity will require answering questions, taking
pictures of objects and images from shows related to thetheme, and uploading them on facebook.

3. Final task during internship
Instructions:ABC
1. Divide the audience group into
three or four groups.

2. Each of small groups will havedifferent themes such as Force, Body,
Evolution etc.

3. Final task during internship
Instructions:
3. Each group could have different activities per
floor/gallery that are related to their given theme.

5thInteractiveActivities

4th
Solving quizzes

3rd
2nd
1stCBrowsing
galleries

Taking photos
and uploading4. Conclusion••

We learned the methods of good science
communication. We didn’t realize it beforehand, but welearned that LISTENING is one method ofcommunication.
We also learned how Science Museum exhibits andgalleries are organized.

Thank you very much for your attention.