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Category Archives: Learning & Teaching
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. |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Heather Reid has shared this photograph diary of an interdisciplinary topic that took place at St Ninian’s primary in 2010 with Primary 6 pupils. As part of the project the learners took part in a whole day event where they learnt more about Climate Change and Renewable sources of energy. The main challenge of the day involved them in working in teams to find out about different possible sources of renewable energy that Mr Willy Wonka could use to power his factory and they were also tasked with presenting possible plans.
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Urban Village
Krysia Smythe a craft, design and technologies teacher, from The Royal High has shared this photograph diary showing the progress over 12 weeks of an enquiry based project where learners were given an open project brief and asked to work in groups to present a solution to the brief which asked them to develop a proposal for a new urban village.
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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.
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Energy Efficient Housing
Sheena Telford, Physics PT from Tarbert Academy, has shared this photograph diary of primary 7 and first year pupils who were involved in a project to learn about energy transfers and energy ‘saving’ devices. Learners carried out a range of practical investigations before applying their learning to a challenge where they had to build a model energy efficient home.
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‘Doosan Power’ and ‘Steel Engineering’ to create more than 800 green jobs
Scotland’s renewables sector has received another jobs boost as major companies continue to invest.
The Korean firm ‘Doosan’ intends to locate its research and development centre for renewables at its current site in Renfrew, creating up to 200 jobs.
They are also in talks with Scottish Enterprise to set up manufacturing and assembly facilities in Scotland – its favoured location for wind turbine development and production. Doosan expects its offshore wind plans in Scotland to create up to 1,700 new jobs.
Steel Engineering, also based in Renfrew, aims to create 120 jobs by expanding its business servicing a range of clean energy sectors, including offshore wind, wave and tidal power.
They are also in talks with Skills Development Scotland about developing a training school with Anniesland College in Glasgow.
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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