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Teaching News and Events (26/3/11)
Discover the latest education news headlines and this week’s Teaching Events.
Cracking Ideas Competition
Learn about patents, copyright and intellectual property and Wallace and Gromit’s Cracking Ideas site… you can also enter their competition and win lots of prizes!
Wallace and Gromit need your help!
Wallace & Gromit are back with their World of Invention and they need help to put their inventions right. The Crackers pair are in trouble and need some inspiration to build their designs. Gromit just can’t get Wallace’s wake-up machine to work and has crashed their entire workshop! Could your pupils design a better machine? [...]
National Baking Week
National Baking Week 2010 takes place from 19th to 25th October. The event encourages everyone to get involved in baking and their site offers a huge collection of recipes, ideas, advice and resources for schools to help them take part. You can download teaching packs include teachers’ notes, lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations for use [...]
Free Science resources from BP
BP have a number of free resources for schools to use for children in KS2, KS3 and KS4: Young Science Investigators offers ideas which aim to help pupils to learn about Science through fun classroom-centred experiments and activities. The latest addition is called ‘Cool Creations’ and is an online set of materials to teach Science [...]
Young Design Club
The Sorrell Foundation is launching the YOUNGDESIGNCLUB to give pupils and their teachers an exciting new resource to inform and stimulate knowledge and debate about design. The YOUNGDESIGNCLUB is free to UK primary and secondary schools, to run in lunch breaks or as an after-school activity. Each meeting will focus on a piece of design [...]
Things I’ve discovered on Twitter recently (part 6)
Twitter is an amazing way to discover new and interesting information. Here are links to some of the things that I have found recently: Design 2010 – An online exhibition celebrating the achievements of students in Design and Technology. Shared by Gareth Davies. Aviary Education – Aviary, who produce lots of fantastic online tools, are [...]
Free Resources from Practical Action
Practical Action are a development charity who are offering lots of free resources for schools, linked to their work in helping some of the world’s poorest people to transform their lives for the better. www.practicalaction.org.uk/education The Education area of their site has a wide range of content for teachers and pupils, including: Videos showing how [...]
CBE Learning
www.cbelearning.com is designed to support both students and teachers with the Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment curriculum. This resource will help bring the construction industry, and roles within it, to life through a variety of interactive learning experiences. www.cbelearning.com The site allows students to explore real construction situations, engaging activities, tasks and roles. [...]
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