Year 10 Race to Solve a Zombie Apocalypse
As Biology in careers week coincided with Halloween we had a representative from Newcastle University’s outreach program come in to run a Zombie apocalypse scenario. Although the aim was to focus on the biology they also introduced the students to many careers that would be involved from all areas of STEM. With a focus on pathology and vaccine development, the students also had the opportunity to escape the apocalypse as well as experience areas of Cryptography and engineering.
In addition to this students in KS3 classes have become zoologists. They have spent time studying the invasion of the Grey Squirrel and how it is reducing the number of Red Squirrels. They debated in groups what could be done about this in the UK.