Category Archives: First

To the end of P4, but earlier or later for some

Across learning, Archaeologist, Collection of the week, Educators, First, Learn with, Literacy, Partners in Learning, Sciences, Scientist, Second, September, Social studies

Educators learn more about………Collections of the past, Dinosaur Discovery

August 7, 2013 Dawn Adams

Dinosaur Discovery is an interdisciplinary learning experience developed for first level and second level learners and is part of the Collections of the Past learning opportunities with the National Museum of Scotland.

The Dinosaur Discovery planning guidance provides practitioners with an overview of the learning experiences using the NAR flow chart process. Educators can adapt this guidance to meet the needs of the learners they teach.

Dinosaur Discovery creates a context in which learners can be supported to explore evidence from the past, be posed questions to gain greater insight into the life of dinosaurs and how their fossils, bones and other evidence can be used to tell us about the history of the earth. Learners will be encouraged to:

Develop a curiosity and understanding of their environment and the past
Undertake simple scientific investigations using practical techniques
Explore a range of media to create images and objects
Be creative
Share and learn with peers through Glow

These challenges will be live in September 2013 with a live Glow TV event with the National Museum of Scotland on the 20th September at 1.30pm . Afterwards they will be made available as packs of learning, teaching and assessment resources in the Collections from the Past 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

Archaeologist, Collection of the week, First, Learn with, Learners, Literacy, Literacy and English, Museum, Sciences, Scientist, Second, September, Social studies

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.

Animator, Approaches to learning, Creativity, Curriculum area, Curriculum level, Educators, Expressive arts, First, Learn with, Learning spaces, Partners in Learning, Second, September, Technologies, technology workshop, Third and Fourth

Educators learn more about …….. Animation – The Big 5!!

June 5, 2013 User deactivated

Animation – The Big 5!! is an interdisciplinary learning experience developed for first, second and third level learners. Scotland’s Big 5 campaign aims to get everyone talking about Scotland’s nature by discovering five iconic species and the places where they can be seen. Scottish Natural Heritage and VisitScotland are promoting the Big 5 campaign in support of the Year of Natural Scotland 2013. Education Scotland in partnership with Dundee Contemporary Arts and industry expert animator Bruce Husband have designed a series of filmed animation workshops to support learners to use stop motion animation to create an adventure text about these incredible creatures.

The Big 5!! project outline provides practitioners with an outline of the learning experiences using the NAR flow chart process and the publication ‘Taking a closer look at NAR.

The Big 5! creates a context in which learners can be supported to

Create texts using animation
Be creative
Work towards safe guarding Scottish biodiversity
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 Digital Story Telling 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

ICT in Education Objectives

Creativity across learning briefing paper

The Year of Natural Scotland

Chef, Curriculum area, Educators, First, Health and wellbeing, Information for educators, Kitchen, Learning spaces, Partners in Learning, Second, September, Third and Fourth

Educators learn more about ……. The Great Scottish Schools Bake Off!

June 3, 2013 User deactivated

The Great Scottish Schools Bake Off is an interdisciplinary learning experience developed for first, second and third level learners. Learning experiences will be supported in the kitchen learning space in Glow from September 2013. Sharing the learning process in Glow will increase opportunities for learners to access specialists and learn with others across Scotland.

The Great Scottish Schools Bake off 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.

The Great Scottish Schools Bake Off creates a meaningful context in which learners can be supported to improve their understanding in sourcing local food producers, hygienic and safe practical cooking techniques, healthy eating, financial education and enterprise. A series of measurement learning experiences are being developed to address areas of weakness identified by the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy. These will work towards improving learners understanding and skill in measurement.

Baking techniques will be demonstrated by leading chefs from across Scotland. These inspirational role models will aim to instil a sense of pride and value in preparing and cooking food with local Scottish ingredients.

The first of four bake offs is the Muffin Bake Off live from the Cooking Bus at Dundee on 3rd September at 10am

You can sign your class up on Glow TV

Recipe sheets for the Muffin Bake-off are

Beetroot and chocolate muffins

Fruit muffins

The presentation for the Muffin Bake-Off is on Prezi

Afterwards learning experiences will be made available as packs of learning, teaching and assessment resources in the Health and Wellbeing 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 results of the Scottish Survey of literacy and numeracy

ICT in Education Objectives

Health and wellbeing experiences and outcomes, Food for thought

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.

Across learning, animation, Animator, Approaches to learning, Artist, Creativity, Curriculum area, Curriculum level, Education Scotland Emerging Technologies Team, First, Languages, Learn to....., Learn with, Learners, Literacy, Partners in Learning, Sciences, Second, September, Technologies, technology workshop, Third and Fourth, writing workshop

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.

Approaches to learning, Art Gallery, Artist, Collection of the week, Creativity, Curriculum area, Curriculum level, Early, Expressive arts, First, Learn with, Learners, Learning spaces, Partners in Learning, Second, September, Third and Fourth

Collection of the week – ‘All the Seas’ – Tania Kovats

June 1, 2013 User deactivated

All the Seas Listen to what the Collection of the Week- ‘All the Seas’ by Tania Kovats is all about

Do you live by the sea? Go on holiday by or know someone who lives or works by the sea or ocean? Tania Kovats is a British artist and she is inviting you, and a global network of people to take part in an artwork by collecting water from the sea or ocean and sending it to The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. The artwork will be called ‘All the Seas’ and will be part of a major exhibition of Tania Kovats work called Oceans which opens in March 2014 at The Fruitmarket Gallery. The names of all the people who have collected water will be included in the artwork to acknowledge their involvement. Share your photographs and stories about collecting water from a sea or ocean and help to tell the story of the artwork.

Email LearnCat if you wish to take part in this collaborative artwork and you will be sent a special label to attach to your bottle of water to show that you learned about Tania Kovats through Glow with The Fruitmarket Gallery.

Use different types of maps to locate key features
Respond to the work of artists by discussing thoughts and feelings
Create text

Learners across Scotland
Tania Kovats
Caitlin Page, Learning Programme Manager
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

Educators learn more about this learning experience here

Email the LearnCat to sign up for ‘All the Seas’ – Tania Kovats

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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Collection of the past – Archaeology – Colours of Buildings

May 31, 2013 User deactivated

Colours of Buildings Listen to what the Collection of the Past – Archeology- Colours of Buildings is all about

Colour has so many uses. Did you know that you can tell the age of a building by its colour? Or that colours can tell us how old something is?

We’ll be looking at how we can tell the age of pottery we find in the ground just by its colour, how the size and shades of different buildings tell us more about them, and how you can become an archaeological detective by looking out for colours in your local landscape.

gather and understand historical evidence
share your evidence to create a collection of colourful historical information about our villages, towns and cities across Scotland

learners across Scotland
a team of archaeologists from the John Gray Centre in East Lothian
Archaeology Scotland

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Archaeology – Colours of buildings

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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Collection of the week – Citizen science – Earthworm count!

May 31, 2013 User deactivated

Earthworm Count Listen to what the Citizen Science earthworm count is all about

Take responsibility for caring, protecting, monitoring and conserving the natural environment through citizen science. Get outdoors and collect real scientific data about earthworms and help scientists with valuable research. Complete an earthworm survey and share your pictures and stories to help gather important data across Scotland. How many earthworms will we find and what does this tell us?

Undertake a practical science investigation
Test the properties of soil
Prepare a sample pit
Collect data
Identify and classify examples of living things
Document learning
Protect your local environment
Value and protect biodiversity

Learners across Scotland
Scientists
Open Air Laboritories (OPAL)

Educators learn more about this learning experience here

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Collection of the week – Citizen science – Earthworm count!

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.