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Collections of the past – Dinosaur Discovery

August 1, 2013 Dawn Adams

What kind of dinosaurs do you know about? Which was the largest, which was the smallest, which had the most horns, or longest neck, or which ate the most food? How can we learn more about the dinosaurs that ruled the earth using evidence and fossils and what they can tell us about the history of the earth? What type of dinosaurs roamed the planet and where did they go?

Visit the National Museum of Scotland through Glow TV to be inspired and amazed by the fossil and bone evidence and go on a Dinosaur discovery. Explore some dino data to find out what we can tell about dinosaurs, their size, what they ate and who would be predator or prey. Meet the 12 metre long life-sixed cast of a T.rex to see the scale and power of the real thing and share your own dinosaur creations.

Look carefully at evidence
Share what you see
Record your findings
Ask questions
Share your ideas
Make collections with others

Museum curators
Scientists
The National Museum of Scotland
Other learners from across Scotland

Educators can find out more about our Collections of the past – Dinosaur Discovery learning opportunity here.

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Collections of the past – Dinosaur Discovery

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, Curriculum area, Educators, Expressive arts, First, Information for educators, Languages, Literacy and English, Sciences

Educators learn more about ……. Natural colour

June 2, 2013 User deactivated

Natural colour is an interdisciplinary learning experience developed for first level learners and is part of a progression of creativity challenges designed around the context of colour.

The natural colour 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. Educators should adapt this guidance to meet the needs of the learners they teach.

Natural colour creates a context in which learners can be supported to explore ‘fat questions’ through practical and creative challenges

Develop a curiosity and understanding of their environment
Undertake simple scientific investigations using practical techniques
Create visual information
Explore a range of media to create images and objects
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

2013 is the Year of Natural Scotland

Curriculum area, Curriculum level, Early, Expressive arts, First, Languages, Learners, Literacy and English, Second, Third and Fourth

Game on Scotland – Athlete’s Village Art Competition

June 1, 2013 User deactivated

Have your art displayed in the Athletes’ Village by entering this exciting competition.

GameOn_art_competition Listen to what the Game on Scotland Athlete’s Village Art Competition is all about

The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games is committed to ensuring that children and young people are at the heart of the Games and what better way to do that than by enlisting their help to welcome our 6,500 athletes and visitors?

Game On Scotland is asking every school in Scotland to get their pupils to design posters to be placed in the rooms of the Athletes’ Village. We’ll guarantee to every individual school that takes part that their chosen artwork will be displayed in the village – your pupils’ work could end up in the bedroom of Usain Bolt, Tom Daley or any of the talented athletes coming to Scotland from all over the world.

At the end of the Games, athletes and officials will be encouraged to take your art as a gift from the people of Scotland and, excitingly, to write back to you offering their thanks.

REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL HERE

How it will work / key Information

◦Don’t start yet! We only need schools to register their interest now and we’ll send full competition guidance at the beginning of the new school session to those who have signed up.

◦The competition is only open to schools in Scotland.

◦Schools will be invited to run an in-school competition involving as many pupils as possible, selecting a pre-determined number of winning pieces (fewer than 10). Schools may wish to organise in-school exhibitions of their work.

◦The school should then send the winning pieces to the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee. We will then arrange for the winning artwork to go on display in the Athletes’ Village.

◦Along with the artwork, we will also be asking schools to send us stamped-addressed postcards (one per winning entry) which we will encourage the athletes and officials to return with comments.

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Digital Storytelling – The Big 5!

June 1, 2013 User deactivated

The Big 5 Listen to what the The Big 5 is all about

This is the Year of Natural Scotland! The Big 5 are out there! The Whiskered Diver! The Roaring Monarch! The High Flyer! The Curious Seadog and The Tufted Acrobat! Celebrate the beauty and diversity of Scotland by creating an animated adventure starring these Nature Superheroes! Get outdoors, look at photographs, ask experts and watch video clips and wildlife webcams to research the Big 5. Storyboard an adventure tale. Create models and sets. Collect and make natural superhero sound effects. Share ideas, resources and help each other solve problems. Use stop motion animation and editing software to bring the Big 5 to life and then have your Big 5 animation adventure shared with Scotland!

Select and organise ideas and information logically
Write an adventure story with great characters and settings
Use visual information to make models and sets
Explore and use animation software
Record and make sound effects
Edit, publish and promote your adventure tale
Appreciate Scottish biodiversity

Learners across Scotland
Industry expert animator Bruce Husband
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Scottish Natural Heritage

Educators learn more about this learning experience here

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Digital Storytelling – The Big 5!

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.

Across learning, Approaches to learning, Creativity, Curriculum area, Curriculum level, Early, Expressive arts, First, Languages, Learners, Literacy, Literacy and English, Religious and moral education, Second, Social studies, Storyteller

‘Tell a Story’

May 20, 2013 User deactivated

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!

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

Scottish Storytelling Centre
Storytellers
Young people and educators across Scotland.

Educators can learn more about Tell a Story day here

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.

Artist, Curriculum area, Curriculum level, Early, Expressive arts, First, Health and wellbeing, Languages, Learn to....., Learn with, Learners, Literacy and English, Sciences, Scientist, Second, Social studies, Third and Fourth

Colours of the Commonwealth

May 20, 2013 User deactivated

Colours of the Commonwealth Listen to what the Colours of the Commonwealth learning experience is all about

Glasgow will host the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Scotland is one of the 71 nations and territories that will participate in the games. These nations and territories work together to promote peace, democracy, sustainable development, human rights and health, and to share ideas, knowledge and experience. It is hoped that learners from schools across Scotland will learn together to share creative solutions to design problems as we upcycle materials to create National flowers from the Commonwealth. These flowers will promote the Convention of the Rights of the Child and will be assembled to create a peaceful flower garden in Glasgow. This set of colour creativity challenges will give you the opportunity to make a creative and peaceful contribution to the 2014 countdown.

Identify the Nations and territories of the Commonwealth
Research the National flowers of the Commonwealth
Identify the parts of a flower
Respond to artists work
Use curiosity and imagination to solve design problems
Collaborate with others across Scotland

Learners across Scotland
Clyde – the official mascot of the 2014 Games
Botanists
Artists
Education Scotland Citizenship Team
Project Ability

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Colours of the Commonwealth

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.