3004, 2015

Citizen Science workshops for Highland Council practitioners

Peter Murray
April 30, 2015
Outdoor Learning, Primary, Professional Learning, Sciences, Skills, Social studies
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Citizen Science workshops for Highland Council practitioners: Lochaber High School, Fort William 12th May 4:30pm Millburn Academy, Inverness 13th May 4:30pm Wick High School, Wick 19th May 4:30pm Citizen science is an exciting way of engaging learners with real-life science in the world around them. Schools across Scotland are undertaking important scientific work, collecting data and using that data to improve their own environment or passing the data to the scientific

2904, 2015

Global Treasure Apps – Create a location-based interactive trail

Peter Murray
April 29, 2015
CfE, Digital Learning, Early Learning and Childcare, Health and wellbeing, Literacy and English, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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247

Calling teachers around the world! Download Global Treasure Apps for FREE for your students! Global Treasure Apps are fun, interactive and informative apps, shining a new light on the world around us. The app won an International Serious Play Award in LA in 2014 for “outstanding visitor engagement with a measurable learning opportunity”, making Global Treasure Apps leaders in the field of Game Based Learning on Location. Global Treasure Apps are launching

2704, 2015

Weather and Climate Change Glow Meet

Peter Murray
April 27, 2015
CfE, Early Learning and Childcare, Primary, Professional Learning, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills
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239

Holidaying in Ibiza or even backpacking across Europe was not an option last summer for four inspirational undergraduate students from all across Scotland, who spurned the ordinary and instead single-handedly organised an extraordinary trip to the Arctic. The main purpose of the trip was to study how climate change is affecting the landscape and the people of the Arctic. Team leader, Cameron MacKay, was motivated to go on the trip

2204, 2015

Fife as a Global Community

Peter Murray
April 22, 2015
Health and wellbeing, Primary, Responsibility of All, Skills, Social studies
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216

Exhibiting the work of: Carleton Primary; Coaltown of Balgonie Primary; Markinch Primary; Milton of Balgonie Primary; Pitteuchar West Primary; Star Primary; Thornton Primary and Warout Primary The Kingdom Shopping Centre, Glenrothes recently hosted a school event run by St Andrew’s University. Exhibitions of local primary school pupils’ work was on display and the pupils involved were there to discuss the projects that they had been working on, to the public.

2204, 2015

Loch Lomond: Social Studies Skills Day

Peter Murray
April 22, 2015
Early Learning and Childcare, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Professional Learning, Skills, Social studies
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258

Registration is now live for a place on the Social Studies skills day on Inchcailloch Island. To register, please sign up here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/99VJQGQ Education Scotland has teamed up with Loch Lomond National Park to offer two days for Primary practitioners, to help improve confidence using Social Studies Skills in the outdoors. The first of these days will take place on the 16th of May. The day will start with a

2204, 2015

Scotland’s Environment EcoHack!

Peter Murray
April 22, 2015
Adult Learning, CLD, Sciences, Skills, Technologies
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231

Scotland’s Environment Web wants to help people discover and understand more about the environment. We are looking for fresh new innovative ideas to make better use of available data, to collect new local environmental data that can help further our understanding, and encourage people to get interested and get involved in Scotland’s Environment – observing, monitoring, taking action, and educating. Scotland’s Environment Web is holding a Hackathon with prizes for

2204, 2015

SAVE THE DATE – Social Studies Weekends

Peter Murray
April 22, 2015
Outdoor Learning, Professional Learning, Sciences, Skills, Social studies
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247

The Social Studies team at Education Scotland have organised a series of FREE CLPL weekends and Saturdays to help develop fieldwork and outdoor learning skills in Social Studies. This follows two very successful Social Studies skills weekends at the Field Studies Council in 2014. You can read more about the primary weekend here: http://bit.ly/PrimaryMillport2014 Please save the following dates to your diary if you are interested in attending. Information about registration

2004, 2015

Citizen science on prime time tv!

Peter Murray
April 20, 2015
Outdoor Learning, Primary, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Social studies
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246

Citizen science on prime time! Sunday night’s Countryfile programme on BBC1 highlighted the issue of tree diseases and the effect on our environment and our economy. The biggest threat to British trees is disease – and in many cases there’s no cure. The Countryfile team investigated the threats to our woodland and found out what we can all do to defend our trees including collecting data using the Forestry Commision

1704, 2015

It’s an early bee count!

Peter Murray
April 17, 2015
Early Learning and Childcare, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Sciences, Skills, Social studies
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224

It’s an early bee count! Find out about bees and why they are important. Encourage them into your school grounds and local environment and learn about the role they play in local ecosystems. Different bees fly at different times. This year the Great British Bee Count will be looking at bees that appear earlier in the year. So on Friday 1st May get ready to download the new bee spotting app