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Category Archives: Technologies
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.
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
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.
CUER Future Car Design Competition
To celebrate their new solar car design, Cambridge University Eco Racing (CUER) are launching a national competition, for school pupils aged from 6 to 14, to design a car for the future. Unlike CUER’s car, the designs will not be restricted to solar power, but the team will still be looking for some exciting and innovative ideas.
Competition entries will be judged, in three age categories, by some of CUER’s technical team. Those shortlisted will be invited to the CUER design launch and ‘solar fun day’ event in May. CUER’s cars are developed to race in the biennial ‘World Solar Challenge’, the ‘Formula One’ of eco-friendly motorsport, which is a 3000 kilometre race across the Australian Outback. In 2009, CUER entered the race for the first time as the only UK team. This year, having developed a much improved car design, CUER will be unveiling their design at a special event in Cambridge. This design launch event is to be combined with an educational ‘solar fun day’, giving attendees the chance to design own solar powered vehicles, and an award ceremony for the design competition winners. Category winners will be announced at this event, alongside CUER’s new design, and the overall winning design will feature in pride of place on CUER’s completed car when it races in Australia in October.
Materials and information on the competition can be found at www.cuer.co.uk/future or can be obtained by emailing outreach@cuer.co.uk
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