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.

Meet the STEM Partners – Science centres and Science Skills Academy

During this online opportunity for primary teachers, you’ll hear from Scotland’s four Science Centres in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee and Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh – as well as the Science Skills Academy – to explore how they can help you deliver inspiring STEM experiences through their exhibitions and learning programmes.

You’ll have the opportunity to find out more about what each organisation can offer you and your learners in-person and digitally, through visits to their centres or through outreach experiences. Join us to explore how we can support you in the delivery of national priorities for learners and make connections with Scotland’s national science centres.

Target Audience – Primary and Additional support practitioners

 

STEM Nation Awards Programme

Are your learners engaged in STEM leadership? Do you have a STEM plan or working group? Are staff taking part in STEM professional learning?

Explore how the STEM Nation Award can help you develop and share Leadership in STEM.  

 

 

Secondary Sciences Network – Save the date

 

Constructing assessments in the sciences

1645 to 1745 Monday 5 December

In this session, Andy Shield (SQA Qualifications Manager for Physics and Environmental Science) will provide insight into constructing assessments for Sciences National Qualifications. The session will include:

• Level of demand and A-type questions
• Distribution of questions
• Ensuring a sufficient breadth of content and skills coverage
• Importance of applying marking instructions.

Andy will also share observations and learning from the most recent appeals process. There will be opportunities to discuss and ask questions. Sign up here.

 

COP 27 – DYW Live

During this week of COP27, Education Scotland and eSgoil have been running DYW LIVE sessions for learners and teachers about climate change and green jobs. Don’t worry if you missed the inspiring input from employers on climate change and green skills within construction, fashion, energy and ethical finance – you can watch the recordings on the DYW LIVE site

Don’t miss out on the last two session running on Thursday 17 November

• AM – Agriculture and Forestry – LANTRA will explain how working the fields, forests and hills can mitigate against climate change.
• PM – Transport – Hear how FirstBus is reducing the impact of travel on the planet and creating green jobs in the process.

To register visit the DYW LIVE COP27 page

Other COP27 Opportunities

1. Live at COP27 Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).

Explore global issues during COP27 and be part of the call for collective action.

Find out more and sign up here.

2. Climate Ambassadors – STEM Learning has created a new subset of STEM Ambassadors called Climate Ambassadors. Employers and organisations can choose to be connected to Climate Ambassadors and filter requests of this type.

3. Royal Society of Chemistry Take Charge Global Battery experiment

4. Education Scotland COP26 legacy materials – recycling, reusing, repurpose materials from last year…because they were so popular and it’s good for the planet to use again!

IGBE Team

Improving Gender Balance Self-evaluation and Data Guides Workshop – Wednesday 16 November 4 – 5:15 pm

Are you a leader of gender aware practice in your setting? Come along to our session exploring how data can be viewed through an equalities lens and support self-evaluation.

We’ve updated our IGB Self-evaluation Framework –

Improving Gender Balance Self Evaluation Framework (education.gov.scot)

‘How does gender inequality affect attainment, wellbeing and participation?’

Another chance to find out!

Our next awareness raising session is on Thursday 1 December. If you’ve already attended one of these why not encourage others within your department/setting to come along? Sign up here

 

Dates for your diary 

18 Nov: Last day of COP27

5 Dec: Secondary Sciences Network – Constructing assessments in the sciences

1 Dec: World AIDS Day

7 -19 Dec: UN COP15 Biodiversity Conference, Montreal Canada