June 23, 2016
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TwigPlayer is here! Twig World has just released the TwigPlayer, an application uniquely designed for Scottish users of the science, maths and geography resources available from the Twig On Glow, Tigtag and Tigtag Junior websites. The player allows users to … Continue reading
June 21, 2016
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Job title: National Education Officer, Improving Primary Science Education Post details: This post is offered on a fixed-term contract for a period of thirty-three months. Following a review the post may be extended up to a total of eight years. … Continue reading
June 17, 2016
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BBC Learning’s next major education campaign will aim to inspire 9-11 year olds through a series of exciting, fun and interactive UK-wide mass participation science experiments. Launching in early 2017, the new campaign will be designed to support the curriculum. A range of classroom resources … Continue reading
June 15, 2016
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Over the past six months Twig World has delivered training and awareness raising sessions free of charge in schools and local authorities across Scotland. So far they have visited over half of the 32 local authorities and they would like to continue … Continue reading
June 2, 2016
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Why we built the portal Citizen Science is really important to the partners in Scotland’s Environment. It generates data which are used to make decisions, set priorities and debate issues, but just as importantly, it promotes citizen education, empowerment, health … Continue reading
May 5, 2016
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Glasgow Science Festival Schools Programme: Now Live! For the past ten years, Glasgow Science Festival has been delighted to offer a bumper programme of FREE events for schools. This year the festival will celebrate its 10th birthday with events running … Continue reading
March 21, 2016
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Tigtag and Twig online resources are currently accessible via the Glow login and are used by schools across Scotland. These award-winning resources provide high-quality videos and accompanying learning materials for sciences, mathematics and social studies. They were procured by Education … Continue reading
March 9, 2016
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Download the March edition of Scotland’s Environment newsletter from here. You can find out more information about Edinburgh International Science Festival (March 26th – April 10th). Additionally, you can find out more about various Citizen Science organisations from across Scotland … Continue reading
March 7, 2016
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The Edinburgh International Science Festival are thrilled to be revisiting their nationwide science literacy education programme, the Sci-Ku Competition! The competition is open to primary schools and secondary schools. To supplement the competition, they have created two teaching packs containing activities to … Continue reading
February 22, 2016
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The Women in Science Festival will return in March 2016. From 5-13 March, the festival will host a fantastic gathering of creative events, featuring world-leading scientists from the University of Dundee and around the world, to celebrate women in science, technology, engineering and … Continue reading
