Letters - January 2010
The 'Farnborough Extended Project', Maintain lattice energy equilibrium and Quick demo - it's in the bag
The 'Farnborough Extended Project'
Joanna Spikes, The Sixth Form College, Farnborough
In response to Jeremy Hinks' Endpoint in the last issue (see Educ. Chem., 2009, 46(6), 192), I would like to share our experience at Farnborough sixthform college of the 'extended project' (EP). Every year some of our brightest students give up part of their summer to research and write a 5000-word thesis.
While coursework can give students the chance to extend themselves, in the past more able students have been marked down for working at a higher level than required. We wanted to give students the opportunity to work at the limits of their own competence, not only to process information, but evaluate and be critical of their own findings. The 'Farnborough Extended Project' provides students with an opportunity to escape from the straightjacket of the examination specification by extending their learning in a direction of their own choosing, at the interface between two of their subjects.
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