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Minecraft

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Minecraft Listen to what the Minecraft Learning Experience is all about

Do you play Minecraft?  Are you willing to help others learn how to craft, mine, survive and build magnificent worlds?   Can you create video tutorials and how to guides, answer questions, offer hints, tips and ideas to help each other explore, discover and build brilliantly in Minecraft? And get crafty with pixel art, paper craft, hamma beads and massive cardboard boxes – outside the mines!

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  • Breakdown processes
  • Explain
  • Solve problems
  • Create

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  • Each other
  • Learners across Scotland
  • Minecraft experts

Educators can find out more about the Minecraft learning experience here.

LearnCAT Email the LearnCat to sign up for Minecraft

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.

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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!

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  • 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.

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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

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  • 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.

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The Great Scottish Schools Bake Off!

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Great Scottish Schools Bake Off Listen to what the Great Scottish Schools Bake Off is all about

In September 2013 Chefs@school, the Cooking Bus and Education Scotland are challenging learners across Scotland to form baking teams and enter the Great Scottish Schools Bake Off!

Glow TV will broadcast live Chefs@School boarding the Cooking Bus at four different locations across Scotland to demonstrate a variety of baking techniques using local, seasonal produce to help you create and serve a delicious afternoon tea to help raise money to support others in your community.

You will have the opportunity to improve your understanding and skills in measurement, nutrition, food hygiene and how to manage your finances to ensure your bake off is profitable.

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  • Source local, seasonal produce
  • Bake bread, scones, muffins and fruit tarts
  • Prepare healthy foods safely and hygienically
  • Measure accurately
  • Manage your finances
  • Run a charitable event in your local community
  • Develop teamwork skills
  • Identify the strengths and talents within your baking team and maximise potential!

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  • Award winning chefs from across Scotland
  • The Cooking Bus Team
  • Members of the Education Scotland Learning Team
  • Other learners and educators across Scotland

The first 10 schools to enter baking teams will receive measuring spoons, scales and a measurement jug.

Educators can find out more about the Great Scottish Schools Bake Off here

LearnCAT Email the LearnCat to sign up for The Great Scottish Schools Bake Off!

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.

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Mix it up!

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Learn with other children across Scotland as we:

  • investigate colour
  • look for colour
  • talk about colour
  • play with colour
  • and mix colours up!

Ask questions, share ideas, try them out and tell others what you have made and found out.

Sciences

  • ask questions
  • have a guess
  • plan
  • explore, investigate, discover
  • draw, photograph, talk and write about what you see
  • talk about your feelings, ideas and findings

Expressive arts

  • each other
  • other children across Scotland
  • teachers
  • artists
  • scientists

The first 10 schools to sign up will receive:

A mini colour investigation kit including

  • paint swatches
  • 3 ice cube trays
  • clear plastic bags and cups
  • 3 droppers
  • red, blue, yellow food colouring
  • red, blue and yellow acetate sheets
  • salt

Educators learn more about this learning experience here

LearnCAT Email the LearnCat to sign up for Mix it up

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.

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Colours of the Commonwealth

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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.

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  • 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

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

LearnCAT 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.