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January 11, 2016
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Our Environment Competition 2016

If you’re of primary or secondary school age and live in Scotland, we want to hear your ideas on how you would improve your local environment. Present your ideas in any format, and submit it as an individual school class … Continue reading

December 11, 2015
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Scottish Education Awards 2016

Sciences, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Award The Scottish Education Awards recognise schools and centres that have developed a vibrant and progressive culture and climate of continuous innovation. The culture and ethos should promote respect, ambition and achievement while improving … Continue reading

December 3, 2015
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Assessment for Learning in STEM Teaching

  A free online course facilitated by Future Learn and led by Dylan Wiliam and Christine Harrison, to help STEM teachers get to grips with Assessment for Learning. Assessment for Learning is a term that’s widely used in education, but applied … Continue reading

December 1, 2015
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ASE Scotland Annual Conference 2016, 5th March 2106, Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen

The ASE Scotland Annual Conference is a festival of best practice in science education for everyone with an interest- teachers, technicians, lecturers, trainees, advisors, CPD suppliers and more. Keynotes confirmed including Global Teaching Prize finalist, Richard Spencer. Bookings now open. … Continue reading

December 1, 2015
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Promoting the Uptake of Girls into Physics and Engineering

If your school is interested in bringing a group of girls to this event at Vale of Leven Academy on Friday 12th February 2016 from 10 am to 2.30 pm then please contact Rhona McCaughey at Rhona.McCaughey@west-dunbarton.gov.uk This is another of the successful events … Continue reading

November 27, 2015
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Opening Doors: Improving gender balance in the school environment

Opening Doors is co-funded by the IOP and Government Equalities Office, running from 2014 to 2015. The project is not specific to physics, or even science, but focuses on developing a whole-school approach to addressing gender imbalance. The project has … Continue reading

November 26, 2015
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Topical Science – Oxygen discovered on a comet.

Last month, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that the Rosetta mission had discovered molecular oxygen on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Tigtag and Twig can support the teaching of this event and help bring topical science into your classroom. Further … Continue reading

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