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Teach Computing – a guide for primary school teachers
If you're a primary school teacher who'd like to get up to speed on teaching the computing outcomes within the Technologies strand, why not have a read of this guidebook for teachers? Written by Kate Farrell (a computing teacher) and three computer science academics,...
Supercomputing MOOC
Discover how supercomputers work and the real-life scientific breakthroughs made possible by today’s computer simulations. This resource is for Learners to use in Technologies for Senior phase (S4-S6).
Moray House Online Conversations 3rd June 2020
Join us to discuss approaches to blended (online and home) learning in primary. This session features Moray House colleagues providing an introduction to blended learning and then a primary teacher demonstrating how they have approached mixing online learning with...
Harry Potter Physics Activities
This resource is for teachers to use in Sciences for Second (P5-P7).
Astronomy activities
This resource is for Teachers/Parents and carers (originally designed for librarians) to use in Sciences for Second (P5-P7).
Descriptive Statistics: Dispersion
A power point resource for teachers of biology, geography and environmental science for pupils studying at Advanced Higher, ( AS-Level, and above), and early FE/HE levels. Of use for helping to achieve a basic understanding and application of the ‘spread of data’ in fieldwork, assignments and examination questions. It complements the Guide to Descriptive Statistics in Geosciences. This resource is for Self guided learning for learners and teachers to use in Geography, Biology, Data Science for Advanced Higher.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Guidance Booklet
This resource is a booklet with a collection of strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing, a list of youth support agencies and a section with templates to aid the completion of some strategies. The target audience for this resource is anyone aged 12+ This resource is for teachers, parents, carers, learners to use in Mental Health, PSE for Learners of Level 3 upwards.
Tackling Mental Health
Two workshops covering what mental health is and how to promote it – aimed at learners aged 11 to 14. Includes workshop plans with presentations. This resource is for teachers, parents, carers, learners to use in Mental Health, PSE for Learners of Level 3 upwards.
Design a passport for an alien!
This fun activity is aimed at children aged 9+. You will need a printer to print some template sheets. Would you like to help an alien by designing its passport so that it can complete intergalactic travels? This resource is for Learners to use in Sciences for Second (P5-P7).
Quadratic Equations (National 5 Maths)
This is a set of worksheets and resources about quadratic equations which will be suitable for pupils who are either currently doing National 5 maths, or who are about to begin Higher maths and want to revise the topic of quadratic equations.
Maths Outdoor Learning Trail: Leith Walk
This activity is suitable for learners and parents/carers who are based around the Leith Walk/Calton Hill area, and gives ideas for mathematical tasks thoughts you can do whilst out and about enjoying a (socially distanced!) walk. It is probably most suitable for learners in early secondary school.
Vectors Puzzle Worksheets
These two worksheets give learners the chance for learners to explore the topic of vectors which gets introduced during the National 5 Maths course. Learners will need to have experience of vectors to be able to attempt these tasks. This resource would be suitable for teachers, or potentially for learners who are already familiar with the topic to do self-study.
Moray House Schools Online Conversations – 27th May 2020
Join Shana Ferguson and colleagues to hear more about the experiences of educators in the USA during lockdown. Discussion will include: how we've dealt with getting tech out to all students from kindergarten through seniors in high schools the tech applications we're...
School of Divinity Outreach
The School of Divinity is committed to offering support for the teaching of Religious and Moral Education (RME) / Religious, Moral, & Philosophical Studies (RMPS) in Scottish schools. We run a series of visit-days for pupils and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events for teachers, in which colleagues share their expertise in accessible formats relevant to the Scottish curriculum. We are also developing free resources for use in schools, and these can be accessed below.
Tangrams
A tangram is a fun maths puzzle made up of seven shapes that can be arranged to form many different designs. Cut out the tangram pieces and then see if you can work out how to rearrange it to make the shapes shown. This activity is suitable for most primary and younger secondary students and parents/carers might enjoy to do them with their children.
Maths Puzzles: Graph Theory (Networks and Maps)
These resources is a set of games, puzzles and worksheets which provide a basic introduction to the mathematical topic of graph theory, which has many real-life applications but isn’t often covered in maths in school, so this resource would provide for interesting extension tasks for secondary school pupils and older Primary school pupils. Graph theory has real-life applications to the maths of maps and network diagrams; and in this resource there is also a very topical activity applying graph theory to the spread of a global virus. Further activities are themed around transport networks and city maps.
Post-16 Transitions
Resources to assist transitions from school to Post-16 destinations from Education Scotland.
Transitions in 2020
This resource from Education Scotland provides practitioners advice, guidance, signposting and practical resources to support children and young people through transitions in the context of COVID-19.
Supporting primary children at points of transition
In this Wakelet collection from Education Scotland, you will find resources and links to materials to help you plan for the multiple transitions our children, young people, families and staff face over the coming months.
Supporting young children at points of transition
In this Wakelet collection from Education Scotland, you will find resources and links to materials to help you plan for the multiple transitions our young children, families and staff face over the coming months.
Corona Is a Ball with Spikes
For literary responses to COVID-19 from writers around the world, check out our Voices from the Pandemic series.
Maths at Work
This series consists of five videos about how Maths is used in the World of Work. They are aimed at S1-S4 students, but might be suitable for younger or older students because the puzzles do not require much background knowledge.
Descriptive Statistics: Averages
A power point resource for teachers of biology, geography and environmental science for pupils studying at Advanced Higher (AS-Level, and above), and early FE/HE levels. Of use for helping to achieve a basic understanding and application of ‘central tendency’ in fieldwork, assignments and examination questions. It complements the Guide to Descriptive Statistics in Geosciences. This resource is for Self guided learning for learners and teachers to use in Geography, Biology, Data Science for Advanced Higher.
Reverse-3D Dragon
The preference of our visual system to see a normal face is much stronger than the smaller visual things that our eyes notice – such as the slightly odd shadows – so our brains assume that a mistake has been made, and that we are looking at a normal face. This resource is for teachers, parents and carers to use in Sciences (SCN 1-12b / SCN 2-11b / SCN 2-12b / SCN 3-12a) for First / Second / Third (P2 – S3).
Reaction Ruler
This resource is for teachers, parents and carers to use in Sciences (SCN 2-12b) for Second (P5-P7).
Optical Illusions
This resource is for teachers, parents and carers to use in Sciences (SCN 1-12b / SCN 2-11b / SCN 2-12b / SCN 3-12a) for First / Second / Third (P2 – S3).
Inverse Colour Illusion
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Seeing is Believing
This resource is for teachers, parents and carers to use in Sciences (SCN 1-12b / SCN 2-11b / SCN 2-12b / SCN 3-12a) for First / Second / Third (P2 – S3).
Guide to Descriptive Statistics in Geosciences
A resource for pupils studying at Advanced Higher (A2-Level, and above) which details the use of descriptive statistics in the field of geoscience. May be of use to teachers of geography, the sciences or even as an application in a mathematics or statistics course. Of use for helping to achieve problem solving, data handling and numeracy learning outcomes. This resource is for Self guided learning for learners and teachers to use in Geography, Biology for Advanced Higher.
Guide to Inferential Statistics in Geosciences
A resource for pupils studying at Advanced Higher (A Levels) and above, which details the use of inferential statistics in the field of geoscience. May be of use to teachers of geography, the sciences or even as an application in a mathematics or statistics course. Of use for helping to achieve problem solving, data handling and numeracy learning outcomes. This resource is for Self guided learning for learners and teachers to use in Geography, Biology for Advanced Higher.