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UPDATED website- The Life Science Centre- with new, detailed course brochures that are curriculum aligned, specific to each awarding body for GCSE and A-Level.
The Life Science Centre at Castle Head Field Centre, Grange-over-Sands exists to generate enthusiasm for science in young people and to inspire the pursuit of scientific careers. We also believe this unique opportunity helps young people develop the skills needed for employment and enterprise. We do this in response to the current shortage of quality science graduates in the UK.
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AutoCad - Download FREE AutoCad software
Autodesk has created an online Student Engineering and Design Community that includes opportunities for students and faculty to download free software for their personal use, contribute to discussion groups and engage in exciting international design competitions.
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Primary Science and the industrial outdoor classroom
This one day course aims to equip science subject leaders and KS2 teachers with the confidence, knowledge and motivation to carry out one or more of a selcetion of practical science investigations set within an industrial context.
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Royal Society Partnership Grants
Royal Society Partnership Grants
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National Science and Engineering Week Information Session - Thursday October 1st - Carlisle
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STEM Ambassador Induction Booklet
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FREE science resources for teachers
The new educational resource website created by the charity Jeans for Genes. Genes Are Us teaches children about the influence that genes have on our everyday lives, from the colour of our eyes to the way our body works, grows and develops.
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Inspirational Science Learning KS 3,4 & above.
How inspired would your science students be if they could go to the North Pole, work with NASA or take part in game relocation in South Africa.
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Link to the Life Science Centre
The Life Science Centre, based at the Castle Head Field Centre in Cumbria, is open for business from September 2009.
GCSE & A level pupils will have the opportunity to work alongside scientists in an industrial standard laboratory fully equipped with state of the art equipment. They will be engaged in vocational science projects highlighting the relevance of scientific study in the classroom to the world of work and biomedical research.
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A Call for STEM Ambassadors
The Life Science Centre in Cumbria needs real life scientists to add colour and enrichment to our work related courses for young people. If you are a STEM Ambassador who would like to work alongside school pupils undertaking mini research projects in our industrial standard biomedical lab, please follow the link to our website or call us on 01539 538131.
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Future Morph
This website is designed to show you just some of the amazing and unexpected places that studying science, technology, engineering and maths can take you. Think of this as your basecamp, your launchpad, the door is open come on in and explore.
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STEM Challenges Launch
The STEM Challenges can be completed either in the classroom or as part of an after-school STEM Club. They will get students thinking about the real-life issues that the STEM professionals behind the scenes of the 2012 Games face on a daily basis and also give young people across the country a chance to connect with the Olympic and Paralympic Games between now and 2012.
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The James Dyson Foundation
The new James Dyson Foundation website aims to provide a wide range of free and easily accessible resources that schools and universities can use at any time. Resources like the Education Box - a disassembly and product analysis tool containing a Dyson DC22 and parts. There is also a new selection of educational videos to download online and a design engineering Teacher’s Pack that can be integrated into lessons. Visitors will also discover what designers inspire James Dyson – in Design Heroes; what is involved in engineering – in the Design Process; and learn about what it’s like to be a Dyson engineer - in our Engineering Profiles.
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Make It
Choosing the right career is a vital decision. The question is which job!
The 'Make It' things world has loads of choices - creating today's essentials - like iPods, trainers or medicines. Perhaps, more critical are the jobs developing tomorrow's - carbon-free cars, robotics or cures for disease.
It's challenging, enjoyable and rewarding - what's more, the money's better than most. Click on the links below to find out what it can offer. Meet the people and discover the jobs shaping tomorrow's world today.
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Secondary Design & Technology CPD Primary Liaison Programme—Bede Academy
The course open to Secondary Design & Technology, Science and Maths teachers is designed to develop the delivery of design & technology in primary schools and provides secondary schools with a proven primary liaison programme and excellent resources to deliver CPD to primary colleagues.
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Primary, Secondary & advanced leaders award
A unique FREE opportunity for students aged between 5 and19 yrs to be recognised as ‘STEM’ Leaders for their schools and colleges.
The Leaders Award has been developed to recognise pupils who are actively
engaged in STEM projects and have a keen desire to help other pupils become
involved.
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Secondary Design & Technology CPD Primary Liaison Programme—Chorley-Lancashire
The course open to Secondary Design & Technology, Science and Maths teachers is designed to develop the delivery of design & technology in primary schools and provides secondary schools with a proven primary liaison programme and excellent resources to deliver CPD to primary colleagues.
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Footage of STEM Ambassadors taking part in activities.
The following three videos show footage of STEM Ambassadors taking part in activities to encourage students to take more of an active interest in STEM subjects. They give a useful insight into what drew the volunteers to become STEM Ambassadors, what to expect from an activity, and feedback from students, teachers and employers.
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3M Worldly Wise
3M Worldlywise is designed to encourage more pupils at secondary school to study STEM subjects beyond GCSE to A-level and right through university.
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Survival Rivals: The Competition and win a FREE trip to the Galapagos Islands!
FOLLOWING IN DARWIN'S FOOTSTEPS: SCHOOL GROUPS OFFERED CHANCE TO WIN UNIQUE TRIP TO GALAPAGOS ISLANDS.
The winning students will get a once in a lifetime opportunity to undertake research accompanied by a creative practitioner.
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I’m a Scientist, Get me out of Here!
I’m a Scientist, Get me out of Here! is supported by the National Science Learning Centres as a great way to engage students with science and develop their discussion and critical thinking skills. It is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
++Info for teachers on I’m a Scientist, Get me out of Here!++
FREE to schools! More info and to sign up http://imascientist.org.uk/for-teachers/
Do you want to get your students engaging with real, live scientists?
Would you like some well-tested resources to help get across tricky concepts in How Science Works (HSW)?
Would you like your students to be looking forward to their science lessons?
I’m a Scientist, Get me out of Here! is an award-winning event, funded by the Wellcome Trust, which gets your students talking to real scientists, online. It’s been thoroughly tested in a wide range of schools and includes lesson plans, information sheets and other resources that support and deepen students learning.
Develops discussion and critical thinking skills
Covers key concepts in HSW
Gets students engaged with science
Registration now open for March event. Differentiated resources for age and ability level. Yrs 9-13.
FREE to schools! More info and to sign up http://imascientist.org.uk/for-teachers/
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The Potato Story
Introduction
Improving the health of the nation has never been more at the forefront with the government encouraging the nation to Change 4 life. School children are a natural starting point for education initiatives to help improve health; teaching children about good nutrition and healthier lifestyles will help them make more informed and better choices both now and in the future.
Some healthy eating messages are already making an impact, for example children now are more aware that they should be eating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. Where there appears to be a job to do is on understanding food provenance, with the research from the British Heart Foundation revealing 1 in 3 children do not know chips come from potatoes.
Child psychologist Richard Woolfson believes greater understanding of food provenance and preparation is crucial in teaching children about healthy eating, "Lack of food knowledge and a misunderstanding of what constitutes 'healthy food' may have a serious impact on the eating habits of children. The Potato Story is a great way of teaching kids about healthy food and where it is from, in a fun and interactive way. This will help them grow up with a good understanding of healthy eating."
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School Science - Revitalise your Science!
Science news, resources, competitions and much more!
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The second STEM Challenge
The second STEM Challenge
Do you have a team of pupils that can help design an adidas glove for canoeing, sailing or rowing?
If so, they could be in with the chance of spending the day with an Olympian!
In this challenge, adidas is challenging students to design a new glove for use by athletes in the above sports at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Students will investigate and test suitable materials for a glove and the winning glove design could even be prototyped by adidas.
This challenge provides an opportunity for any KS3 student to be a part of London 2012. The challenge should amount to no more than eight hours of work, from which students create a ten minute presentation.
The second challenge is now under way and runs until Sunday 25 April.
Team names must be registered by Monday 22 March.
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The BDAE
The Association membership consists of about 300 people who are or have been involved with or interested in the engineering disciplines. We specifically are not a professional institution though many of our members are professional engineers and as such belong also to their respective particular institutions. This means that we can extend our membership to the wider public who express a genuine interest in all things engineering.
We run a programme usually of six lectures on the third Thursday of the months of September, October, November, January, February and March. An AGM is held for members in April.
The council of the Association meets monthly. Each member of the Association is allocated to a councillor and is usually contacted once a month with information about the Association's activities. A news letter is issued annually just prior to the start of the lecture season.
The lectures have over the years covered every discipline and been at various levels of technicality. Attendance is usually between 25 and 100 at each presentation which is normally held at a suitable local hostelry so that the pre and post meeting periods form an integral part of the evening. The actual lectures start at 7.30 p.m. and last for up to an hour with up to 30 minutes questions and discussion following. Facilities such as a slide projector, OHP, video etc. are often used as aids to presentation.
The aim of the Association is and always has been to spread the engineering gospel to the wider audience and not just the committed engineer who already knows how fascinating and vital it really is.
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