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Free professional learning workshops available for practitioners at Hillpark Secondary School, Glasgow on 25th November 4 – 6pm.
Come along and learn about air pollution, how to use data about air quality in your classes and finding indicator species such as lichen in your local area!
Sign up using our simple survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AirQualityCPD
Free professional learning workshops available for practitioners at Hillpark Secondary School, Glasgow on 25th November 4 – 6pm.
Come along and learn about air pollution, how to use data about air quality in your classes and finding indicator species such as lichen in your local area!
Sign up using our simple survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AirQualityCPD
Twilight session for Glasgow secondary teachers, and P7 working towards transition, looking at new approaches to teaching Air Quality. Three short workshops will cover different ways of getting pupils involved in real science research, learning about pollution and Air Quality in a way that is meaningful for pupils and produces useful scientific data along the way. The event will cover a diverse range of topics from Outdoor Learning, to data analysis and a wealth of available resources to use with your pupils. Come along and find out how you and your pupils can get involved in Air Quality research at your school.
Workshops:
Lichen bio-indicator of air quality: Find out how to identify some of the lichen bio-indicators of air quality to get a measure of air pollution in your local environment. This survey is one of the Open Air Laboratories citizen science surveys that enable pupils to carry out real science research in their local environment. OPAL Community Scientist Joanne Dempster
Scotland’s Environment Web: Exploring existing air quality data to investigate air quality near you. Education Scotland Citizen Science Development Officer Stuart McGrath.
Clear the Air: An educational resource for secondary school pupils to learn about air pollution and how it is measured in their area by finding out about the Clear the Air Citizen Science project.Riccardo Energy and Environment: Riccardo Energy and Environment, Susannah Telfer and Jennifer Simpson.
Places are limited so please register here.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AirQualityCPD
The Scottish Learning Festival (SLF) is the key education event in Scotland welcoming thousands of educational professionals.
SLF 2015 takes place on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 September in the SECC, Glasgow.
Below are a list of seminars focusing on science and STEM that may be of interest.
The Education Scotland teams will be on hand at the main stand to discuss STEM and answer any of your questions on Wednesday at 3:00 – 3:30pm and Thursday at 1:30 – 2:00pm.
Wednesday 23 September – 09.30
Highland Primary Science Framework
Peter Finlayson, Highland Council
BOISDALE 1
SEMINAR CODE B1A
Wednesday 23 September – 12.30
Delivering the CfE Science Es & Os through Practical Investigations
Philip McGhee, North Lanarkshire Council
MORAR
SEMINAR CODE M1B
Wednesday 23 September – 13.45
Increasing achievement in science education: Learning lessons from Finland and Estonia
Neil McIntyre, Webster’s High School
MORAR
SEMINAR CODE M1C
Wednesday 23 September – 16.15
Learning for Sustainability: National Progress, Local Success
Ian Menzies, Education Scotland
BOISDALE 1
SEMINAR CODE B1E
Thursday 24 September – 10.45
STEM in the Early Years
Jennifer Allan, Pine Trees Nursery
LEVEN
SEM
Developing the Young Workforce: preparation for employment in
STEM and engineering sectors
Ian Beach, Education Scotland
LEVEN
SEMINAR CODE L2H
Thursday 24 September – 13.15
Air Quality Learning and Teaching Package
Ben Jackson, Scottish Environment Protection Agency
MORAR
SEMINAR CODE M1I
INAR CODE L2G
Thursday 24 September – 12.00
Want to get outside and start finding out about the environment around you? These brand new professional learning videos from Scotland’s Environment are a great place to start. With information for practitioners and learners, they provide a step-by-step guide on how to measure soil pH, look for invertebrates in your local pond, sample small mammal populations and more!
They are all part of an exciting new resource available from Scotland’s Environment website: Get Learning. The home of environmental data and information about Scotland for learning and teaching.
Always dreamed of being a fossil hunter? Now’s your chance – and you don’t have to leave home.
A citizen science project called FossilFinder is asking volunteers to look through high-resolution photos of the Turkana basin in Kenya taken from drones and kites, with the hope that they will spot newly exposed fossils before they erode away.
http://www.fossilfinder.org/
The team at Zooniverse ask you to help them document what is seen on surface images, including fossil fragments and other artifacts, to assist them in reconstructing past landscapes and environments. More eyes, more information, more discoveries.
The Bee Diverse campaign, from Keep Scotland Beautiful, encourages and enables communities, groups, organisations, individuals (or anyone interested) to plant for pollinators, and to encourage biodiversity. With the aim of creating healthy outdoor spaces for communities to enjoy and enabling people to learn more about biodiversity, this campaign also reconnects people with their environment.
By registering your interest, you will be able to apply for seed mixes crafted especially for our pollinator pals, as well as resources that will give you some of the know-how about biodiversity, pollinators, and how to maintain and benefit from your new biodiverse space!
Looking for great information, data and resources relating to Scotland’s environment to use in your classroom?
Then look no further than the new Get Learning section on Scotland’s Environment website. With maps, data, resources and useful links – all of which have been carefully matched with Curriculum for Excellence levels and National Qualifications – it’s a great source of up-to-date environment-related information for teachers and learners.
This new resource has been developed in partnership with Education Scotland to direct teachers to the information and data they need to bring learning about Scotland’s environment to life. The content is organised within easy-to-understand topics for learners of all ages, from early level through to senior phase. The new Get Learning section is just the latest exciting addition to the £4 million website developed by SEPA, SNH and other national partner organisations.
In addition to maps, data and resources, other features include:
Don’t just take our word for it – take a look for yourself and Get Learning.