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January 25, 2016
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Opportunities in Geoscience: Student’s Stories of Exploration and Research

        Created to inspire learners to get involved with geography and show how this and similar subjects can be used to tackle the environmental issues facing the world. Come to see student’s accounts of climate change in Greenland, geological … Continue reading

January 18, 2016
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Topical Science – Tim Peake makes historic spacewalk

Major Tim Peake, the first astronaut representing the UK to carry out a spacewalk, has described the experience as ‘exhilarating’. Peake and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra ventured outside the International Space Station on Friday 15 January to replace a broken … Continue reading

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

January 8, 2016
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Citizen Science & Curriculum for Excellence Guide

Want to discover a new quasar in deep space, count elephants in the Serengeti National Park from the comfort of your classroom or monitor invasive species in your local park? If so, then you will be joining forces with millions … 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

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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