What different skills do engineers need to do their jobs?
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What’s going on in engineering in Scotland and beyond?
Watch this STEM video to find out about the different types of engineering that are happening around the world.
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Scotland’s Engineering Future
Scotland has a great history of excelling in the field of engineering. We have been looking at different types of engineering in school and we want to focus especially on renewable engineering, which will help solve the problem of global warming. LOGON TO GLOW TO VIEW
Pre-5 Problem Solvers
A boat full of rainwater was an ideal opportunity for ELCC children to develop their engineering and problem solving skills!
Boat Building
As part of our Transport topic, P1/2/3 have been learning about boats, what makes them float and then designing and building their own. We have also learned that engineers design boats and more about the design process – tying in well with our Rolls-Royce Science Prize project for the year.
Port Ellen Primary P6/7 Engineering
P6/7 are learning about engineering. We have drawn and annotated a picture of a engineer and discussed what and engineer is. We have found out different types of engineers there are (electrical, biotechnology, chemical engineers, etc.) We have watched a video of a engineer and videos on what an engineer is. We have done research about a type of engineer and we wrote the facts down on a piece of paper.
We have found out that you need to be good at linear algebra to be a computer engineer. We also found out that that coding engineers work with a lot of other types of coding engineers, such as programmers. We can’t wait to do some of our own engineering. Watch the video on engineering below…
Investigating wheels
As part of our transport topic, P1/2/3 wanted to find out about wheels. They found lots of tyres out in the garden and checked out wheels on cars in the car park and bikes in school. They found out that wheels are attached to axels and have written to Mr MacKerrell at the garage to see if they can find out more about how cars work.
What is an Engineer?
P1/2/3 have been wondering about engineering and what engineers do? Evie (P1) thinks that engineers ‘fix cars’ and are ‘always men but sometimes ladies’ while Iona in P2 thinks engineers can be ‘boys and girls’ and that engineers make boats.
We asked these questions as part of a baseline assessment for the Rolls-Royce Science Prize. We will be asking children to revisit these ideas at the end of the project and see how their views have changed.
Rolls-Royce Science Prize- Find out more!
We are pleased and proud to announce Port Ellen is one of 6 finalists in the Rolls-Royce Science Prize 2017-18! We are going to be carrying out a year long project on engineering and renewables. Read more about the prize taken from the Rolls-Royce Website below:
About the prize
The Rolls-Royce Science Prize is an annual awards programme that helps teachers implement science teaching ideas in their schools and colleges. The Prize recognises and rewards excellence in Science teaching across the full spectrum of teaching, from special education needs to high ability pupils. It also promotes innovative and sustainable strategies for teaching science which addresses a specific need in the schools or colleges and at the same time contributes to teachers’ continuing professional development.
