In March 2025, Connected Falkirk’s Lauren McKechnie led young explorers in this ‘Classroom Jungle’ live interactive lesson based on the British Science Week theme of ‘adaptations.
In October 2024, we set Falkirk schools another new challenge task for Halloween. This year was all about looking to the stars as we explored the spooky skies using an adapted version of the Apple Creative Activities ‘Reveal a Constellation’ activity. Find out more about the live lesson and the night frights we created below.
In February 2024, we set new STEM based challenge task for Falkirk Schools. Our asynchronous Balloon Pop challenge was a Scratch code-along for Connected Falkirk devices. Find out more below.
This challenge is accompanied by a live lesson on 1st December. For those who can’t make it or need the instructions again there is a full length 23 minute step by step video. We recommend an hour or more to complete this challenge.
You don’t actually need a micro:bit for this challenge! You can code a virtual micro:bit using the App or the micro:bit MakeCode website. We recommend setting aside 45 minutes to an hour for this challenge, the videos are short but coding the musical notes may take time.
This is the shortest challenge of the bunch. It would be great as a free time option or as an extension activity in December as each learner can play independently at their own pace. How many levels can your class complete?
In March 2023, we set Falkirk schools a a set of challenge tasks for British Science Week 2023. This included a range of activities, puzzles and quizzes they could complete on their Connected Falkirk devices to celebrate this years theme of ‘Connections’. Find out more about the challenges themselves and the fabulous results below.
To kick off British Science Week, our Education Support Officer Lauren McKechnie and the Falkirk STEM Officer Victoria Paddon hosted a Live Teams Session open to all schools in Falkirk. The session involved the pupils completing an Only Connect Wall where they had to find the connection between various STEM-related terms/ phrases. Following this, they began to complete the CREST Award ‘Confusing Cans’ experiment using the Measure App on their Connected Falkirk devices to calculate the distance the cans travelled.
Alongside the live session, we also launched 5 other digital science activities for pupils across Primary and Secondary settings to get involved in. Each task was linked to the theme of ‘Connections’ in some way.
Access the interactive guide on Canva by clicking here. Or you can download a copy below. (To download click on the ‘…’ and click ‘Download PDF File’).
