Welcome to the fortnightly STEM planner. Keep reading to find out more about exciting STEM developments across Scotland. Please feel free to share this planner with colleagues and school partners.

 

Secondary Sciences Network

Join us for our Secondary Sciences Network 2022/23 kick-off session on Wednesday 5th October 4 30 – 5 30pm and help shape plans and the programme for the year ahead.

The joining code for the Glow Teams Group is uh9sf32 and the meeting will take place in the General Channel. If you can’t join us live then you are very welcome to use the group code to join the network anyway – there are over 670 members and growing.

 

STEM Networks Early Years, Primary and ASN

Join us on Thursday 6 October for a focus on equity and STEM. The EAL team in Glasgow will share their work with early years practitioners and bilingual learners on STEM. Breakout rooms for Early Years, Primary and ASN will follow.  The meeting will take place in the General channel of the STEM Nation Team within Glow.  Join the team to access the meeting.

 

FREE Science Storytelling CLPL 

Dynamic Earth are pleased to be offering a new CLPL series to help evolve confidence, knowledge and skills in developing and delivering high-quality storytelling practice on a range of science themes.
The specialist team and special guests will take you through a different aspect of storytelling practice in each session with activities and examples you can take back to your setting with learners.

October 26th Scotland Rocks: Scottish Geology, Dinosaurs and Extinction
November 23rd Diving Deep: Earth’s Ocean
December 14th Galaxy Quest! Space Exploration
January 18th Rumble in the Jungle
February 23rd Puffin Power! Exploring the Climate Emergency
March 22nd Outdoor Stories

Ideal for:
– ELC and ASN practitioners
– Teachers with Early Level learners

Find out more and register for free

 

RHET Teacher Update

To support SLF22 Interactions, Experiences and Spaces project, the Royal Highland Education Trust are delighted to share their new video highlighting the benefits to learners of engaging with food and farming in a variety of learning spaces.

To support STEM learning in school RHET have launched a new interactive resource for Level 2/3 learners covering a range of STEM involved in food production: New STEM Curiosities Learning Resource

The Royal Highland Education Trust (rhet.org.uk)

 

STEM the Flow – West Partnership

Keep Scotland Beautiful STEM the Flow

Marine litter pollution is one of the biggest challenges facing our natural world and has an effect on everything form flooding to air quality and even our food. Keep Scotland Beautiful, The West Partnership and STEM Glasgow would like you to be part of the solution, by tackling the problem upstream at the source.

STEM the Flow will consider engineering solutions to tackle source to sea litter in the River Clyde. Keep Scotland Beautiful are joining forces with industry experts to support Upstream Battle across the West Partnership, with this STEM challenge for P6/7 – S3 pupils.

KSB are looking for teams to research and develop their own ideas to tackle these issues, such as ways of collecting litter that is already in the Clyde, or preventing litter from getting into our waterways in the first place.

Work as a team to create a project plan, conduct research, draw conclusions and
build a model or produce a display to showcase your idea.

Projects will run from October 2022 until an exhibition event at the Riverside Museum in
February 2023, where you will see what other teams have come up with and present
your solution to a panel of judges. Select teams will be presented with awards at the
exhibition.

 

STEM Professional Learning events

Interactive list of webinars and network meetings planned for this academic year.

Sign up for these events using the Eventbrite links on the page. 

Please post a comment at the end of this blog to discuss any aspect of these sessions and to share ideas about possible future sessions.

 

 

Science collections on National e-Learning Offer

• Chemistry NQ: National 4: National 4 Chemistry NeLO collection – Pupil.pdf – Google Drive
• Chemistry NQ: National 5: National 5 Chemistry NeLO collection – Pupil.pdf – Google Drive
• Chemistry NQ Higher: Higher Chemistry NeLO collection – Pupil.pdf – Google Drive
• Chemistry NQ Advanced Higher: Advanced Higher Chemistry NeLO collection – Pupil.pdf – Google Drive
• BGE Science Third Level Planet Earth: Third Level Sciences – Planet Earth.pdf – Google Drive
• BGE Science Third Level Forces, Electricity and Waves: Third Level Sciences – Forces, Electricity and Waves.pdf – Google Drive
• BGE Science Third Level Materials: Third Level Sciences – Materials.pdf – Google Drive
• Higher Human Collection: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1umuKLKDd2vY_D5JA7J0mzrPjpJBM9osa/view?usp=sharing

 

Practical science videos

Practical Science – an interactive list of all Science experiments films to support you and your learners.

Filter by subject, phase, level and unit. Information on who produced the film and a direct link to the filmed experiment is included.

 

 

 

Primary Engineer

The Primary Engineer competition encourages UK primary and secondary learners  to find engineered solutions to real world problems.  Register here.

Primary Engineer have created a brand-new, fully funded sixteen hour short course. The eight-week programme is aimed at anyone within education who supports the delivery of STEM related learning in the classroom. It will support in developing an evidence-based approach to STEM education delivery and strategy development.

 

Dates for your diary

Secondary Sciences Network  5th October

STEM Networks Early Years, Primary and ASN  6 October

Scottish Digital Literacy Week  3 – 7 October

World Space Week  4 – 10 October