Group Details For S&T; A Fossil Hunter's Story; An Interactive Workshop

A Fossil Hunter’s Story; An Interactive Workshop

This event is an interactive workshop led by Stuart Naylor.   This is a departure from our usual trips and talks, but Stuart has successfully led this workshop for groups similar to ours and tells me that members will have plenty of fun and learn a lot.

The workshop is based on a project developed by the Association for Science Education, called Key moments in history and science: a fossil hunter’s story.  In it you will learn about paleontology, dinosaurs and a relatively unknown but brilliant female scientist, Mary Anning who, amongst other things:

• features in the Royal Society list of 10 British women that most influenced the history of science
• made discoveries that are included in a Royal Mint special 50p coin collection
• is the central character in a Tracy Chevalier novel (Remarkable Creatures)
• has named after her an ichthyosaur, a plesiosaur, a mollusc, a reptile, an asteroid and a statue in Lyme Regis (shown on Google maps)
• helped to invent the science of paleontology and was Britain’s greatest ever fossil collector

As well as being enjoyable in its own right, the workshop might also give those of us who have care of grand children useful ideas for activities to entertain them! 

Stuart Naylor 

Stuart has led this workshop for other U3A Groups as well as for much larger audiences. 

He began teaching in Manchester in 1971 and spent 13 years teaching in schools before becoming a teacher educator, writer, publisher and consultant. He is well known, along with his late wife, Brenda Keogh, as the author of many innovative publications and resources for schools and has a reputation for thought-provoking professional development and creative ways of enhancing teaching, learning and assessment. He is currently secretary of Sandbach & District u3a.