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Sciences

School pupils try out life sciences at BioCity

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As part of the life sciences Skills Investment Plan, launched in April at BioCity Scotland, 156 S3+ pupils from 11 different schools in central Scotland took part in a unique innovation and enterprise day. Pupils learnt through hands-on activities how these companies have taken a ‘good idea’, supported that idea with scientific research and developed it into a business.

Ronnie Palin, Key Sector Manager for Life Sciences at SDS added: “This ground-breaking event offered young people the opportunity to gain real hands-on experience of the opportunities within Scotland’s expanding life sciences industry.

http://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/news-and-events/news/school-pupils-try-out-life-sciences-at-biocity/

Languages and Literacy, Sciences

Design a River Creature Competition – British Council

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Win a trip to Totally Thames with Rivers of the World
Enter your primary school into our ‘Design a River Creature’ competition
The prize

We will pay for the winning team to take part in the Totally Thames season of events and enjoy lots of fun activities including a student workshop at the British Council and a visit to the Tower Bridge Experience.
What do I need to do?

Using the Rivers of the World education pack as a resource, ask students to work in groups of five to create an art work and an accompanying piece of creative writing. It can be based on a real or imaginary creature from an overseas country and river ecosystem.

Who can enter?

Primary Schools Years 4 & 5 (5 and 6 in Scotland)

Closing date: 12 noon, 27 June 2014.

Find out more and apply:

http://britishcouncil.cmail1.com/t/r-i-xdjgud-l-t/

The Rivers of the World education pack contains high quality, river themed cross-curricular lesson ideas. As well as a supporting resource for this competition, the pack can be used as a stand-alone resource or collaboratively with a partner school.
Developing the Young Workforce, Sciences, Technologies

Skills Fusion – VFX film careers outreach programme

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Skills Fusion is a VFX film careers outreach programme. Funded by Creative Skillset (http://www.creativeskillset.org/) , the Sector Skills Council for the Creative Industries, its aim is to highlight the skills shortage that the UK film industry faces in this sector and the opportunities, particularly in the more technical specialist roles that rely on strong educational foundations in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), and computer science subjects, available to students.

Full details: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/eslb/2014/04/14/skills-fusion-vfx-film-careers-outreach-programme/

Sciences

Astrobiology Summer Academy 13th-16th July 2014

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An opportunity for biology and physics teachers to explore curiosity and ‘what if’ questions to creatively unlock the field of astrobiology.

The Astrobiology Summer Academy is a four day CPD programme (Sunday to Wednesday) for Biology AND Physics teachers to learn about the science of Astrobiology and work with researchers and lecturers to develop CfE lesson plans for topics such as ‘extremophiles’ (CfE Higher Biology) and ‘life in the Universe’ (SCN-3-06a, SCN 4-06a). There are 20 places available for teachers and you can register your interest at www.astrobiologyacademy.org

Health and Wellbeing, Languages and Literacy, Mathematics and Numeracy, Sciences, Social Studies, Technologies

New report on Assessing Creativity across many subjects available on Creativity Portal

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Led by the University of Dundee and funded by Creative Scotland, this project gathered the views of three groups of professionals working within the expressive arts with the aim of identifying effective and innovative models of assessment of creativity. These models were documented and used to develop case studies in the format of a teaching resource for application across the whole curriculum. The resource was piloted and evaluated by the research and development team in collaboration with teachers and initial teacher education (ITE) providers.

Click here to find the downloadable file:

http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=assessing+creativity

The project develops the links between arts organisations, schools and ITE providers through data collection; shared analysis and evaluation; and through the development, application and dissemination of findings. In this way stronger partnerships have been established as recommended in Teaching  Scotland’s  Future  (Donaldson  2010)

Mathematics and Numeracy, Sciences, Technologies

inGenious competition brings STEM classes to life

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A new competition has been launched to inspire the most creative teaching minds to translate their passion for science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects into exciting classroom experiences.

http://www.nfer.ac.uk/about-nfer/media-and-events/ingenious-competition-brings-stem-classes-to-life.cfm

The inGenious competition – co-ordinated in the UK by Futurelab at NFER – calls for all teachers in Europe to help their pupils better see the link between their passions, the set of skills which make them possible, and the education paths leading to those skills.

The inGenious competition is open to all teachers at primary and secondary school level. Applications are open until 28 February 2014, and 30 finalists will be invited to attend the inGenious European Award Ceremony in Brussels later in the year.

Sciences

Scotland’s Environment Web Competition – creative problem solving

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Scotland’s Environment Web is running exciting competition for young people with fantastic prizes! What needs to change in your local community that will make a difference to your environment and what role can you play in making it happen? We want you to answer this question above. Tell us how you could make your environment better. This competition is open to all young people throughout Scotland between the ages of 5-18, whether through your school, as part of a group or as an individual.

Join our Glow meet too at 11am on 6 November to share your story and ideas and to have the chance to win a further exciting prize: http://bit.ly/1daPP4b

Languages and Literacy, Sciences

Glow TV events from Edinburgh International Book Festival – create your own story

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EIBF 2013 – Superhero Siblings with Gwyneth Rees, 20 August 10.30am http://bit.ly/14xLyVH

Saffie is no ordinary sibling, she’s a sister with superpowers! Join author Gwyneth Rees and meet the quirky characters from her enchanting My Super Sister series. Share stories of superpowered magic and mayhem, and find out how to create your own super special story idea. This event is suitable for Primary 3-5.

EIBF 2013 – The Physics of Superheroes with James Kakalios, 20 August 12.00 midday http://bit.ly/1477joh

James Kakalios explains the basic principles of physics without an inclined plane or pulley in sight.  Instead, all of his examples come from superhero comic books (particularly those in which the heroes get their science right!). Starting with fun superhero questions, the fascinating mysteries of science are revealed. This event is suitable for S2- S6.

EIBF 2013 – Ciaran Murtagh: Jokes, Genies and Japes, 21 August, 12.30 pm http://bit.ly/1br310Z

Ace author, CBBC scriptwriter and star of The Slammer, Ciaran Murtagh wants you to help him make up a brand new story.
Choose a title, decide what happens next and then make sure everything’s all right in the end. Giggles are guaranteed as this master storyteller weaves words into stories right before your eyes!
This event is suitable for P3-6.

For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:

https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.

(Glow log-in and password required).

Sciences, Technologies

Ask an Astronaut with the Scottish Space School 2013

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19 June 10.00 am http://bit.ly/17kXNEW

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/eslb/2013/06/13/ask-an-astronaut-with-the-scottish-space-school/

Join us in Glow TV for the fourth year of ‘Ask an Astronaut’ in collaboration with the Scottish Space School. Take part in this exclusive opportunity to talk to two star guests Rick Hieb and Amber Gell.  Rick Heib is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He has logged over 750 hours in space, including over 17 hours of EVA (space walk). He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65. He is currently the Vice-President of Lockheed Martin and part of what they do, with other partners, is combining their talents to launch a bold new era of space exploration.