The BBC Learning Zone Broadband Class Clips provide a rich source of audio-visual sequences selected to work with the curriculum.
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Port Ellen Primary at the Celebration of Science and Engineering
On 9th June six of us from Port Ellen Primary School; Scott, Ewan, Jason, Emily, Ellen and Eilidh, went to Glasgow Science Centre for the Celebration of Science and Engineering. On the journey there we got to travel on the new MV Finlaggen ferry and had a tour round the bridge to see all the shiny gadgets and gizmos. The next day we got up early and set up our presentation at the Glasgow Science Centre along with 53 other primary and high schools from around Scotland. We went to see a science show, where they made things turn invisible, and got to play with the amazing science exhibits, finding out loads of information in a very fun way.
Next we had to present our science project to 4 judges from science industries around Scotland. Our teacher was told “Bye, Bye!” by the judges as she wasn’t allowed to see what we were doing. Our presentation was Mission SOS! Save our seas, and talked about biodiversity, the marine tank we set up in class, oil spills, beach cleans and tidal turbines. We had made a tidal turbine and wired our own electronic quiz on rock pool biodiversity. I think the judges really liked the puppet we made to help present, called Jim the Scientist. We also had videos of the lobster and crab we had in our tank.
Afterwards we had to compete in 5 STEM challenges put on by companies around Scotland. This included a Shell oil change task, a Lloyds Register ship’s ballast test, working with lasers and operating a mini ROV. The challenges were fun and we did quite well.
Finally we went to the IMAX for the presentation of awards to schools. Heather (the Weather) Reid was presenting the awards, along with Fergus Ewing, Minister for Energy. There were nine awards altogether, and we hadn’t entered most of them. Then she announced “And the award for the best presentation of a showcase, sponsored by BT, goes to Port Ellen Primary School.” We were extremely amazed, and our faces showed it! We had to go down and get a cheque for £250 and had our picture taken. At last we got home, having enjoyed the best trip ever!
Creative thinking in an interconnected context
Click the link below to see a workshop that was presented by Susan McLaren, Senior lecturer/Programme director at the Institute for Education, Teaching and Leadership at Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh at the Climate Change seminars held by Learning and Teaching Scotland in November 2011.
Maths in the pipeline
http://www.techfestsetpoint.org.uk/activities/maths/pipeline
‘Maths In The Pipeline’ is a full day of mathematical workshops and challenge for 15 year olds based on the applications of mathematics in the oil and gas industry. All the days workshops are based on real data and the Captain Field in the Moray Firth is used as an example.
Beforehand pupils can undertake an interactive, virtual visit to the Captain Platform via the website: http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/SPE/index.html.
Pupils from different schools are placed in a team and work alongside industry professionals at an industry venue. During the morning the teams are introduced to key industry topics and solve problems on these whilst developing their team working skills. The highlight of the day is the afternoons business challenge. With a deadline to meet and a presentation to be made this is both realistic and demanding.
Following on from Maths In The Pipeline, pupils can get involved with STEM In The Pipeline at S6 level.
STEM elibrary – The solar spark
The Solar Spark educational resources are produced by the SUPERGEN Excitonic Solar Cells Consortium. This is a group of research scientists from eight UK universities working together to do scientific research on Excitonic Solar Cells. Researchers work in the areas of polymer solar cells, dye-sensitised solar cells and tandem cells. They explore lots of relevant chemistry, physics and engineering behind the structure and design of these cells.
The educational resources in this collection include practical activities that illustrate how solar photovoltaic cells work, future applications and the need for sustainable energy.
http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/collection/788/the-solar-spark
STEM elibrary
The key objectives of the National STEM Centre are to:
- House the UK’s largest collection of STEM teaching and learning resources, in order to provide teachers of STEM subjects with the ability to access a wide range of support materials.
- Bring together STEM partners with a shared mission to support STEM education, thus supporting the government’s STEM Programme
Thousands of resources for learning and teaching relating to sciences, technologies, engineering and maths can be found at the STEM elibrary.
TED Talk Highlight – Saul Griffith’s kite taps energy from the wind
In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/saul_griffith_on_kites_as_the_future_of_renewable_energy.html
Bringing science to life – The Scottish Schools Carbon Capture and Storage Project
Click on the image below to red the casestudy about The Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage Project.
Celebration of science and engineering
Organised by the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. Young Engineers and Science Clubs across Scotland will showcase their projects. In addition, new Scottish Government Junior Saltire Prize Awards and a range of Green Energy Awards will be presented by the First Minister. The jam-packed programme includes STEM challenges, science shows and a 3D IMAX movie.
| Glasgow Science Centre P7-S6 Fri 10th June 9:30-2pm Participation by Invitation only, but spectators welcome. Please contact jane.martin@scdi.org.uk for further information. |
For more information click here.
Renewables project
In 2010 S1 pupils at Inverness High were involved in an interdisciplinary learning project relating to the learning context of Renewable energy. This involved the sciences, social studies and technologies departments in planning for learning relating to a scenario where the learners were presented with the scenario of an island which had been cut off from its fossil fuel supply and had to find the best solutions for generating electricity by harnessing energy from renewable sources. The power point shared here was presented by Ben Sparham from Inverness High and Real Project at the Learning and Teaching Scotland Climate Change seminars during a workshop seminar to share with other practitioners the thinking and experiences behind this project.
Click below to see the learning journey.
