World Science Day for Peace and Development

World Science Day for Peace and Development is celebrated each year on 10th November. The day highlights the important role of science in society, the need to engage the public in debates on emerging scientific issues and underlines the importance and relevance of science in our daily lives.

To celebrate the day, students at St Catherine’s School, Twickenham, made the display board below showing how Science and Technology are relevant to their everyday lives.

Students from Years 7-13 spent 15 minutes at the beginning of their Science lesson, brainstorming their ideas. They decided to present their ideas as speech bubbles surrounding a clock, to represent the science behind their actions at every point of the day.

Here are some of their ideas:

• biological processes such as digestion, respiration, and excretion

• the energy transfers and forces involved in walking and using public transport

• the techniques involved in making paper and clothes; such as growing, harvesting, bleaching and dying cotton 

• the extraction of oil and polymerisation of plastics to make furniture

• the technology involved in making and using laptops, mobile phones, and speakers

• the selective breeding of their pets and farm animals

• the techniques used to manufacture and clinically trial cosmetics

• food-science, dentistry, medicines, cleaning products, stationary

This project encouraged students to consider how science is all around us and it's easy to forget, as we often take these everyday things for granted which are so vital to our lives.

For further science resources, check out our blog about British Science Week which takes place every year on the first week of March.