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While it's not closely-related subject-wise to the InSECT materials, this post on Reddit is an interesting interaction between a science teacher in Texas and the parent of a child in their class. Here's the text of the post:

I teach high school physics in a pretty nice area in Texas. For the vast ...

Tell us a little about yourself - what and where do you teach, why the InSECT Project interests you ... and anything else you'd like to share!

You can find out about the InSECT Project team here.

If you've landed on this page it's likely that you've done so as a result of running across the InSECT Project at one of the sessions run by InSECT Project team member Elizabeth Zodda at the NSTA Meeting in Anaheim CA in April 2026.

On the InSECT Project website and here in the InSECT Community you ...

We continue to work hard bringing the InSECT Project to life in various ways, including academic papers (currently being refereed), resources for students and teachers, school and conference talks, and more. Here are some highlights from the last three months plus a taste of what’s to come later in ...

A series of three 40 minute radio programmes on the theme of "progress" by author and broadcaster Matthew Sweet . An interesting backdrop to the InSECT Project's focus on science and truth.

Matthew Sweet explores the idea of a 'polycrisis' of progress across the intertwined spheres of technology ...

This bibliographical essay forms part of a collection of papers that the InSECT Project team is currently authoring both jointly and individually for publication in various journals relating to science education. (We'll link to these papers in this forum and from the InSECT Project website itself ...

In recent months there has been much talk of relocating chip manufacture from Taiwan to the US. But this isn't simply a case of building new factories and recruiting and training new local staff to run them.

There is a great article in the Guardian about this (from October 2023) which explains why ...

This is a set of exemplar materials that we have produced to illustrate The Experimenter's Regress - the concept that in frontier science experiment alone cannot determine who is right, and that there is always a social process at play.

We have adopted a format for these materials which provides ...

Posted in r/ScienceTeachers - the post is here:

Restoring trust in science - a new curriculum project

This is a set of exemplar materials that we have produced to show how teaching about the way in which individual citizens without scientific expertise may seek reliable information about vaccination, and how to discriminate between advice based on scientific consensus with that which is based on ...