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‘Tell a Story’

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Tell a Story Listen to what the Tell a Story Learning Opportunity is all about

‘Tell a Story Day’ is celebrated across Scotland in October. In the 3 weeks leading up to this national event join Storytellers in the ‘bothy’ at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh via Glow TV. Enjoy listening to the storytellers share tales about nations and territories within the Commonwealth, about personal challenge and achievement and memorable, adventurous and incredible journeys.  ‘Journeys’ is the theme for this year’s event. While listening, learn how to tell and perform oral stories. Then take the opportunity to ask the storytellers questions about their ideas and techniques to help you plan and hold your own ‘Tell a Story Day’ event.  On ‘Tell a Story’ day we plan to broadcast your stories across Scotland via Glow TV. How do you get selected? Send  a video clip of you performing your story and we will get back to you. We can’t wait!

Learn to....languagesSocial Studies

  • Explore and play with the patterns and sounds of language
  • Communicate in a clear and expressive way
  • Select and organise ideas
  • Share real and imaginative stories using the spoken word
  • Create and perform a collaborative story
  • Plan a ‘Tell a Story Day’ event

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  • Scottish Storytelling Centre
  • Storytellers
  • Young people and educators across Scotland.

Educators can learn more about Tell a Story day here

LearnCAT Email the LearnCat to sign up for Storytelling – Tell a Story

Notes

  • If you are a learner, you can sign up for yourself. Please include your Glow username
  • If you are a teacher or other educator, you can sign up on behalf of a group of learners. Please include a list of Glow usernames
  • Email learncat@educationscotland.gov.uk for any enquiries.
  • A Glow Login is required for your submissions.  If you have forgotten it or don’t have one click here.

Approaches to learning, Creativity

Educators find out more about ……Creativity Challenges

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These challenges are designed to develop creativity and collaborative skills.

Creativity skills include being inquisitive, open minded, harnessing imagination, identifying and solving problems.

An interdisciplinary learning approach is used to develop a context for a set of four weekly challenges.

Each term a different context/theme will be developed:

  • Autumn – Colour
  • Winter – Water
  • Spring – Paper
  • Summer – Natural Scotland

Where appropriate the context will be used to develop learning experiences for all curriculum levels within broad general education.

When creativity challenges are no longer live they will be made available through the national learning channels.

Approaches to learning, Creativity, Educators

Educators – Learn more about….. Mix it up!

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Mix it up! is an interdisciplinary learning experience developed for early level learners and is part of a progression of creativity challenges designed around the context of colour.

The Mix it up learning experience outline provides practitioners with an overview of the learning experiences using the NAR flow chart process and the publication ‘Taking a closer look at NAR.

Mix it up creates a context in which learners can be supported to:

  • Undertake simple scientific investigations
  • Be creative
  • Share and learn with peers through Glow
  • Profile and recognise achievement

These challenges will be live in September 2013. Afterwards they will be made available as packs of learning, teaching and assessment resources in the Creativity Learning Channel on Glow.

This learning experience has been developed to work towards supporting the delivery of:

The Curriculum for Excellence Implementation Plan 2012-13 

The Sciences 3-18 Curriculum Impact Project Summary of Key Strengths and Aspects for Development

ICT in Education Objectives

Creativity across learning briefing paper

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Natural colour

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Explore natural colour creativity challenges with children across Scotland and be amazed and inspired by everyone’s outdoor discoveries.

  • What colour is the sky?
  • How many greens can you find outside?
  • Are there any seasonal colour clues?
  • Why are some creatures colourful and others not?

These are just some of the questions that will be asked while you look at, think about, gather information about and create with natural colour.

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  • Look carefully
  • Share what you see
  • Ask questions
  • Record your findings
  • Think of ideas
  • Share what you did
  • Make collections with others
  • Be imaginative, adventurous and willing to try lots of different ways to take part in creativity challenges

Expressive artslearn with...sciences

  • Learners across Scotland
  • Artists
  • Meteorologists
  • Scientists
  • Macduff Marine Aquarium
  • The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

The first 5 schools to sign up will receive a Polaroid camera to help capture learning!

Educators please find out more by clicking here.

LearnCAT Email the LearnCat to sign up for Natural Colour

Notes

  • If you are a learner, you can sign up for yourself. Please include your Glow username
  • If you are a teacher or other educator, you can sign up on behalf of a group of learners. Please include a list of Glow usernames
  • Email learncat@educationscotland.gov.uk for any enquiries.
  • A Glow Login is required for your submissions.  If you have forgotten it or don’t have one click here.