{"id":594,"date":"2012-08-08T12:46:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/?p=594"},"modified":"2012-10-11T12:49:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T12:49:15","slug":"594","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2012\/08\/08\/594\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Transport and TEDEd&#8217;s new YouTube channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2012\/08\/stem-central-banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"stem central banner\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2012\/08\/stem-central-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our<a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/stemcentral\/contexts\/transport\/index.asp\"> STEM Central Electric Transport <\/a>context is currently aimed at third and fourth level. In the next school year, we will be publishing an extension to the context for second level. Offering opportunities to embed sustainable development and give insight into STEM in everyday life, the second level extension will highlight green buses on Scottish roads. Last year 15 buses engineered at Alexander Dennis Ltd in Falkirk took to the streets of Edinburgh, with partial funding from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-scotland-business-17624623\">Scottish Government&#8217;s Green Bus Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MBRTR2dlwvA\">Electric Vocabulary<\/a> from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TEDEducation\">TEDEd&#8217;s YouTube channel<\/a> tells the story of how &#8220;charge&#8221; and &#8220;battery&#8221; became part of our everyday language of &#8220;electricity&#8221;. Useful for your own background and understanding, or for learners at second level.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2012\/08\/electric-transport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"595\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2012\/08\/08\/594\/electric-transport\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2012\/08\/electric-transport.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"262,210\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1343825850&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"electric transport\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2012\/08\/electric-transport.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2012\/08\/electric-transport.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-595\" title=\"electric transport\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2012\/08\/electric-transport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our STEM Central Electric Transport context is currently aimed at third and fourth level. In the next school year, we will be publishing an extension to the context for second level. 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