This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival RBS School Programme is bigger than ever before. It runs from 20th – 28th August in Charlotte Square Edinburgh and many events are live in Glow TV! It’s also truly international with writers from Australia, Canada, the USA, France and Poland as well as from all parts of the UK.
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STEM Central makes connections between sciences, technologies and mathematics through the context of engineering and allows learners to broaden their understanding of the applications of concepts and skills developed in curriculum subjects. It allows learners to develop solutions to problems and demonstrate creativity through inquiry.
Sound Context for learning is live on STEM Central.
In a first for Fife and Scotland, Strathallan Primary School and Nursery in Kirkcaldy has scored eight ‘excellents’ following a recent inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Education (HMIE).
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On Tuesday 19 June, schools from across Scotland linked up with Stewart Stevenson MSP, Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, who is in Rio as part of the official UK delegation to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development which is taking place from 20-22 June. Over 100 heads of state and world leaders are in Rio de Janeiro for crucial talks at this summit, referred to as Rio+20.
During the Glow Meet, learners from primary and secondary schools were able to put questions to the minister about the conference and about Scotland’s efforts to tackle climate change.
Log in to Glow and watch the recording of this Glow Meet.
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Glow Science includes over 650 short films that hundreds of teachers are using to enrich and support their teaching in the sciences and technologies. Tailored to Curriculum for Excellence – and tagged to levels 2, 3 and 4 – the films provide teachers with accurate and engaging visuals for the teaching of science, technology, and health and wellbeing.
All resources are free with your Glow log-in.
There is also a competition on the website which is open to anyone living in Scotland who is 18 years or under.
This resource looks at ideas for food as a context for interdisciplinary learning, and how Curriculum for Excellence supports learning about food and health.
The resource includes a poster and a supporting leaflet. The poster, in the form of a mind map, illustrates the different ways we engage and learn about food. The supporting leaflet provides further information on the resource and how to consider using it through well planned interdisciplinary learning.
Have you entered Education Scotland’s exciting design challenge? You still have time! The design challenge is being run through the Marks on the Landscape website within the learning context of the land regeneration project Fife Earth. The challenge is aimed at those working within second, third and fourth curriculum levels.
The competition closing date is 21 June 2012.
Scotland’s own (the real) David Cameron gives a lively TED talk on creativity and education – highlighting the role of the Creativity Portal:
