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There are answers to some frequently asked questions about In the Zone and the website on this page, along with links to support for all the different experiments. However, if you can't find the help you're looking for, please get in touch by email or phone, using the form or number below.
To get in touch by telephone, please call 0845 313 6666.
To read the answers to some frequently asked questions about the units for each age group, please use the links below.
In the Zone is a national public engagement and education initiative which is being run by the Wellcome Trust for 2012 and beyond. It is inspired by the London Olympic and Paralympic Games and aims to engage the public with the science of how their body works during sport exercise, movement and rest.
The Wellcome Trust is committed to engaging the public with biomedical science. In 2009, we celebrated Charles Darwin's 200th birthday with an initiative similar in scale to In the Zone. One strand of this initiative involved sending a free experiment kit to every UK state-funded school, providing teachers with everything they needed to teach inspiring and contemporary evolution-focused practical work. External evaluation showed this to be an unprecedented success; 66% of Primary schools and 41% of Secondary schools used the kits, with 90% of teachers reporting that they inspired learning, contributed to pupils' scientific understanding, and improved pupil engagement.
The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will create huge excitement across the UK in 2012. In the Zone will build on this excitement, using it as a hook to explore the science behind sporting performances and how the human body functions. We aim to engage and inspire the public, to introduce science in fresh and exciting ways, and to encourage them to reflect on the science of the human body.
The Inspire Mark is awarded by LOCOG, the London Organising committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to not-for-profit organisations running projects inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Values. The Inspire Mark looks very similar to the official London 2012 logo.
Get Set is the official London 2012 education programme, run by LOCOG, the London Organising committee of the Olympic Games. In the Zone is part of Get Set + and is featured within the Practical Learning theme.
All UK schools and colleges will have received an In the Zone kit in early 2012. You did not need to register to receive the kit.
Kits for ages 4-11 were sent to Science Coordinators in Primary Schools. Kits for ages 11-19 were sent to Heads of Science in Secondary Schools.
The kits were distributed in early 2012.
Please contact the In the Zone support line on 0845 3113 6666.
To order more items from the 11-19 box please contact SciChem on 01902 402402 or customerservices@scichem.com.
The In the Zone kits contain everything you'll need to teach outstanding science lessons inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The kit for ages 4-11 contains:
The kit for ages 11-19 contains:
Fizzy Cole and her trusty friend, Dizzy the Stopwatch Dog, appear throughout the resources for ages 4-11. They are on a mission to help children get In the Zone and do their best. Fizzy and Dizzy travel the world, investigating how the human body works during sport and activity. Fizzy uses her special scientific equipment to discover what goes on inside our bodies, while Dizzy asks all sorts of questions.
Now, Fizzy and Dizzy have arrived in your school, with loads of great investigations for inquisitive young minds to get involved in. In the Units for younger children, Fizzy is a puppet who sets challenges, and helps children explain what their bodies can do. For the older children, Fizzy and Dizzy set tasks and exciting investigations through emails.
Yes. You could use it as a delightful doorstop, a glorious shelf warmer or a beautiful book holder - but that won't be much fun. Sport, and children's interest in what their bodies can do, won't stop when the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games end, so please keep using this box with your pupils. If you need to download extra paper-based resources or Powerpoints, or if you just want to use the interactive games, the website will continue to be available long after the lights in the Olympic Stadium have gone out. Have fun!
General Health and Safety advice is given for the activities for each age range within the Teaching Guides, but please carry out your own risk assessments prior to any of the activities, to ensure that they are safe in the unique context of your school.
Yes, to order more items from the 11-19 box please contact SciChem on 01902 402402 or customerservices@scichem.com.
Free In the Zone experiment kits were sent to every UK school & college in early 2012. The Live Data Zone enables students and teachers to upload the results of their experiments and analyse them for trends.
If you don't register, you can still view the national average data from each experiment. If you do register, you can also upload the results of your experiments and analyse them for trends. As well as seeing average national data, your username and password will enable you to compare the results that you and your classmates upload, along with other datasets added by people at your school or college.
Yes, if you don't register you can still view the national average data from each experiment. However, you will not be able to upload the results of your experiments and analyse them for trends.
To register, go the the registration page. You will be asked to supply the following details:
To complete your registration you will need to click a link in an email we will send you.
To register you will need to:
The information you use to register and login is used for this purpose only. Your email address, username and password will be stored securely.
For further information, please refer to our Privacy Statement and Legal Terms & Conditions.
For all of the experiments, you will upload:
For each experiment, you will also upload the following results of the experiment:
'On your marks… get set… go!'
'From strength to strength'
'I've got the power'
The Wellcome Trust is committed to protecting all information provided by your school for this project. For further information, please refer to our Privacy Statement and Legal Terms & Conditions.
All personal data uploaded to the website is done so anonymously. It is stored and displayed anonymously.
To upload results to the Live Data Zone you need to register, then go to the 'upload data' page. Here you can choose to either add your results to an existing dataset for your school (if there is one), or create a new dataset for your results. You then upload your results using a simple form.
To explore average national results, simply choose the 'view data' option. To explore results for your school or college, you will first need to login to the Live Data Zone.
When on the 'view data' pages, you can use a variety of controls to manipulate the graphs and explore the results. For more information about using the graphs, click the 'help' button on the 'view data' pages.
A dataset is a set of experiment results.
Individual results from the experiment should be uploaded as part of a dataset. A dataset may be composed of the results for an individual, a small group of people, a class or even a whole school. You should not name datasets using people's names. Instead, use the name of your class or something you will remember (e.g. Class 10d, Dataset 1).
You can either add results to an existing dataset from your school, or create a new dataset.
National results are the average of all results uploaded to the Live Data Zone.
School results show all of the results uploaded by people at your school. You can view individual and average results for your school.
A dataset is a set of experiment results. Individual results from the experiment should be uploaded as part of a dataset. You can decide how big or small a dataset is. It may be composed of the results for an individual, a small group of people, a class or even a whole school. You can view individual and average results for a dataset.
Anyone can use the Live Data Zone to view the average national data for the three experiments. Schools and colleges are invited to register for the Live Data Zone. Registering will allow you to upload the results of your experiments and analyse them for trends. As well as seeing average national data, your username and password will enable you to compare the results that you and your classmates upload, along with other datasets added by people at your school or college.
To ensure that the data is useful to the core audience (11-19 year olds), you must be between 10-20 years old to add data to the site.
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