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June 16, 2014
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Education Scotland’s support for learning, teaching and assessment in the sciences

Education Scotland has produced a suite of documents to support learning, teaching and assessment of the sciences from early to third level. First we have the Sciences Principles and Practice Paper, essential reading which: details the purposes of learning within … Continue reading

June 4, 2014
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Citizen Science for Hurricane Season: Cyclone Center

June 1st marked the official beginning of the hurricane season in the Atlantic, and you can help improve our understanding of these powerful storms on www.cyclonecenter.org To recognize the start of the season, Cyclone Center (or Centre – depending on … Continue reading

June 2, 2014
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Edinburgh International Film Festival – STEM Careers Events

Wednesday 24th – 25th June 2014   Into Films will be running 3 career sessions at next month’s EIFF.  One focusing on STEM students, the other on the same day includes STEM as part of film careers, with a third … Continue reading

May 30, 2014
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Higher Biology Resource Guide

This Higher Biology Resources Guide links Mandatory key areas to useful learning and teaching resources. The pages show the Mandatory key areas table from the SQA Higher Biology course and unit support notes with an additional column containing hyperlinks to … Continue reading

May 23, 2014
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Royal Society of Chemistry Global Experiment 2014

The Global Experiment 2014 encourages young people aged 7-16 , from all around the world, to participate in two experiments, investigating solubility and growing crystals, and to share their results around the world by posting them online. The resources required … Continue reading

May 21, 2014
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Software to support server-side development for Higher Computing Science

The new Higher Computing Science has a clear focus on modern technologies and development for the Web.  Server-side scripting and online databases are the building blocks of the large information systems that we all use today. The new Higher requires … Continue reading

May 20, 2014
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Scottish Engineering – Special Leaders Award 2014/2015

Leaders Award for STEM is a fun and rewarding way of finding out about careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). We also play host to additional Special Leaders Awards which run throughout the year, each having a particular … Continue reading

May 20, 2014
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S3–S6 NATIONAL ICT AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES CAREERS DAY

11th June 2014 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh     10:00 – 10:25 am –        Registration  10:30- 11:15 am –          Welcome to Big Ambition Scotland 11:20 –  Learning zones: Expert Zone – join us for opportunity to ask industry experts questions … Continue reading

May 16, 2014
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Open day – a whole cluster approach to science

Venue: Mearns Primary School, East Renfrewshire Date: 9am to 12:30pm, Tuesday 3rd June 2014 This professional learning event presents an exciting opportunity to learn about the approaches to 3-18 sciences developed by the Eastwood High School and Mearns Castle High … Continue reading

May 13, 2014
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National Women in Engineering Day June 23rd 2014

National Women in Engineering Day has been set up by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) to celebrate its 95th anniversary. It takes place on 23 June 2014. The aim is to celebrate the work that women do in engineering, and to … Continue reading

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