STEM resources June 2014

The Great British Bee Count

Bumblebee numbers have declined by 60% since 1970 – very worrying since bees pollinate 75% of our most vital crops and favourite foods. With over 250 species of bee in the UK to keep a track of, it’s difficult for scientists to develop a clear picture of what’s happening to bee populations. But that’s where you come in, or rather your students!

http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/blog/the-great-british-bee-count

The Great Plant Hunt

To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, commissioned and funded by the Wellcome Trust, has created The Great Plant Hunt. This exciting project will encourage children to explore the natural world around them and join other schools in the biggest ever school science project.

http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/collection/1869/the-great-plant-hunt

2014 - 2015 ATM catalogue now online

Go and take a look at the 2014/15 catalogue for the ATM Association of Teachers of Mathematics,
 which you can now browse on the web.

www.atm.org.uk/Catalogue

Arranged in order from Early Years onwards, turn the pages to
find author profiles, brief reviews and above all lots to inspire
your teaching with well tried and tested materials.
Many publications are now available as downloads and more
downloadable versions are being added this year. The easiest
way to order is on the new ATM web site. It’s quick and easy to
use and here you will find additional titles as well as everything
within this catalogue. There is however an order form at the
end of the catalogue if you prefer to use that.
Brief reviews of some of the titles can be found within this
catalogue. The full reviews can be viewed on the website.
We recognise that our Scottish colleagues and educators from
other countries do not use the key stage structure used in our
catalogue and the ages/key stage links are outlined below:
KS1 5 - 7 years KS3 11-13 years
KS2 7 -11 years KS4 13 -16 years

NCETM Primary Magazine Issue 6

Worth looking at this magazine from the National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics.

News

New National Curriculum in Focus: Algebra in KS1

Where’s the Maths in That? – Maths across the curriculum

  Do also have a look at their magazine archives.

 

 

link to Early Years Archive

 

 

link to Primary Magazine Archive

Some You Tube Channels

AssocTeachersMaths

Educatioanal Solutions 

nrich Maths

malcfifty

MilesBerry   See "joined up computing curriculum"

The RSA

TechMath

TED

Veston Bruno: Sesame Street clips

Vi Hart: Crazy Doodler

Literacy from Scratch

“Literacy from Scratch” is a response to the United Kingdom (UK) government’s initiative to develop computer programming skills in both the Primary phase of education (pupils aged 5 to 11) and the Secondary phase (aged 11 to 18).
http://www.literacyfromscratch.org.uk/project/index.htm

The project has several related aspects: it involves the reworking of Primary and Secondary Initial Teacher Training (ITT) programmes at Brunel University, through which Postgraduate students are taught how to use the MIT Scratch programming language, to create sustained and animated narrative work. This work has also been developed by a whole year group (187 Year 8 pupils aged 12 -13) at a local London secondary school.

Support materials for creating these animated narratives are being developed at both institutions (the school and Brunel University), and are sent by email to a school in Prague, Czech Republic (CZ) where, with the assistance of both the teaching staff and student teachers at the Faculty of Education in the Charles University in Prague, a local Prague Basic School is undertaking the same project with several groups totalling 45 Year 3 to 7 pupils (aged 8 – 13).

STEM centre resources for new NC 2014.

The National STEM Centre has launched new areas of the website dedicated to supporting the new programmes of study for science and mathematics from Key Stages One to Three. You will need to register.

Many of the resources are excellent old resources made available in soft format such as BEAM and Science 5-13. You can build your own lists and share them with others.

The pages are organised into topic areas and contain resource packages which pull together a wide range of high quality resources selected by subject specialists, including:

• activity ideas
• worksheets
• interactive games
• film clips
• lesson plans 

These free resources provide a useful starting point for teachers when planning the scheme of work, with useful tips and advice to support non-specialists and those who may be teaching a topic for the first time and can be found at:

Secondary:

Science: www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/secondaryscience
Science practicals: www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/sciencepracticals
Mathematics: www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/secondarymaths

Primary:

Science: www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/primaryscience
Mathematics: www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/primarymaths

Linking our work using Diigo, Blogger, Flickr, YouTube adn Dropbox.

The Really Useful Maths Book is a resource for primary teachers. This blog will link ideas in the book to the Routledge companion website which went live in June 2014. There are images in Flickr to use as stimulus activities, a list of tags and maths links in Diigo and some useful video ideas in the YouTube channel. We are planning some longer pieces to go on Dropbox.


Maths Challenges

Links for pupils and teachers of Primary Mathematics in the UK. A Diigo group.
Developed for "The Really Useful Maths Book" 2nd Edition 2013.

  Henry Liebling's photostream on Flickr