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Shaping our future through STEM: Planning STEM learning activities Protocols: Turn off your camera Mute your microphone Post comments, questions and thoughts into the chat window The chat will be facilitated by one of our

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Shaping our future through STEM:

Planning STEM learning activities

Protocols:

  • Turn off your camera
  • Mute your microphone
  • Post comments, questions and

thoughts into the chat window

  • The chat will be facilitated by one of
  • ur team
  • Preface your comment with SPEAK if

you would like me to say it verbatim

  • The event will be recorded

Twitter: #STEMNorth #STEMnation To let us know where you’re from, please go to menti.com and enter the code 53 37 34 3

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Northern Team

Numeracy & Mathematics:

  • Andy Brown
  • Iona Coutts

Digital:

  • Susan Sey

Improving Gender Balance & Equalities:

  • Jen Hodson

STEM:

  • Janey Irving
  • Mark Irwin
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Planning STEM learning activities

Aim

  • To provide practical guidance
  • n planning meaningful STEM

activities

Session outline

  • Thinking about logistics
  • The power of partnerships
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RAiSE in the Northern Alliance

Led by Education Scotland & funded through a partnership between The Wood Foundation, Scottish Government and participating Local Authorities. Core objectives**: build capacity at LA level and build the confidence of primary practitioners around Science and STEM In the Northern Alliance RAiSE has funded the secondment of a PSDO in Highland, Moray and now Orkney and from August 2020 CNES…

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Why? What? When? Where? Who?

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The Why

What are we wanting to achieve?

  • Developing skills for the 21st century
  • Developing STEM Capital
  • Developing a range of learner pathways
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Interdisciplinary Learning

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The What

What is the main focus of your activity?

  • Curriculum coverage
  • New knowledge to be covered
  • New skills to be acquired
  • Existing knowledge and skills that will be utilised and

strengthened

  • Links made between different curricular areas
  • Consider which aspects of the Careers Education Standard

might be relevant

  • Consider equity, accessibility and inclusion
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The When

What is the timescale and time commitment needed?

  • A one off event
  • A series of day or half day events
  • A sequence of shorter events over a number of days, weeks or months
  • A project that will be repeated each year over a number of years
  • A project that moves through stages over 2 or more years
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The Who

Who is going to be involved in the activity?

  • Children and young people of different ages
  • Young STEM Leaders programme
  • Children and young people from different classes
  • Children and young people from different schools
  • Collaborating with other staff
  • Involving parents and carers
  • Involving local employers or STEM Ambassadors
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The Where

Where will the activity take place?

  • Onsite facilities
  • Outdoor spaces
  • Community spaces
  • Workplace visits
  • Virtual visits
  • Virtual reality and augmented reality
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Capturing and Sharing STEM Learning Activities

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Capturing STEM Learning Activities

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What is Rich Media?

Photos Videos Sound Files Podcasts Slideshows Animations

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Benefits of Digitally Capturing STEM Learning Activities

  • Content can be used as

evidence

  • Evidence could be

accessible anywhere there is an internet connection

  • Enhances Digital Skills
  • Captures Pupil Voice
  • Reflection Tool
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Creating Content based on a STEM Learning Activities

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Creating Content based

  • n a STEM

Learning Activities

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Sharing STEM Learning Activities

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Glow

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Sharing STEM Learning Activities

  • Enhances Digital

Skills

  • Builds Confidence
  • Presentation Skills
  • Digital Literacy

Skills

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Sharing STEM Learning Activities

  • Accessible anywhere with an

internet connection

  • Can be shared with Glow users
  • Can be shared publicly
  • Evidence of progression
  • Parental Engagement
  • Can be added to a digital

profiling tool

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WordPress Blogs Microsoft OneNote Google Classroom Microsoft Sway Microsoft Teams Google Sites

Sharing STEM Learning Activities

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Help and Support

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What Digital Learning Might Look Like

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DigiLearnScot Blog

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Evidencing Learning using Book Creator

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Twitter

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It's over to you....

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Planning and evaluation

  • What will you do as a result of

engaging in this professional learning activity?

  • Please complete the webinar

evaluation: http://bit.ly/STEMintheNorth

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Numeracy & Mathematics

  • Education Scotland’s numeracy & mathematics Professional Learning Community – a one

stop shop for key documents, links and guidance. A practitioner Glow login is required for this site

  • Making Maths Count final report and review report
  • National thematic inspection report for numeracy & mathematics
  • Supporting Numeracy at home - resources for families on Parentzone Scotland
  • Numeracy & Mathematics Professional Learning Resources – published August 2020
  • Improvement Hub Resources – numeracy & mathematics resources on the National

Improvement hub

  • Follow us on Twitter: @edscot_maths

Get involved:

  • Maths Week Scotland is 28 September - 4 October 2020
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Technologies & Digital

  • Digilearn.scot is our digital learning community
  • DigiLearnScot videos on YouTube
  • Practitioner support for online remote learning
  • Education Scotland’s Digital Learning and Teaching Strategy
  • Technologies Professional Learning Community in Glow
  • Digital Schools Award Scotland
  • Glow Connect Blog
  • Microsoft Educator Centre
  • Google for Education Teacher Centre
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Improving gender balance & equalities

  • Improving gender balance and equalities 3-18 page on the National Improvement hub
  • Supporting gender balance & equality – resources for families on Parentzone Scotland
  • Gender Stereotypes: An Introduction Action Guide
  • STEM Aspires Reports
  • IGBE Wordpress
  • Looking at Gender Balance in STEM subjects at School
  • Ideas and Activities to Explore Unconscious Bias (Sway)
  • Follow us on Twitter: @EdScotIGBE
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STEM & Science

  • National STEM Education & Training Strategy and Annual report
  • STEM Resources page on the National Improvement hub
  • Our Sciences and STEM Wakelets link to lots of useful resources for learning & teaching
  • Our STEM Blog keeps you up to date with STEM news and you can follow us on Twitter:

@STEMedscot and @EdScotSciences

  • GLOW Sciences PLC – the Science professional learning community on GLOW
  • Supporting STEM at Home – resources for families on Parentzone Scotland

Get involved:

  • Young STEM Leaders programme
  • British Science Week is 5-14th March 2021. This year’s theme is Innovating for the future
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RAiSE – Further Information

Core Objectives

Build capacity at local authority level Build the confidence, skills, knowledge and enthusiasm of primary school practitioners Create opportunities for practitioners to network, share, collaborate, mentor and co- create Develop and promote opportunities for pupils to increase their experiences, engagement and achievement in Science/STEM

For further information/contact:

RAiSE page on NIH Education Scotland Lead Officer for RAiSE programme – Gayle Duffus