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Inspiring Moments
Creative Wellbeing Fund Report
The Creative Wellbeing fund supported six projects across Scotland and brought together learning communities and creative partners to work together to find innovative solutions to increasing learners' wellbeing and a wider sense of achievement...
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“An inherent link seems to exist between creativity and science and mathematics education...”
—Creative Little Scientists, EU Funded Research Project
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Online Teaching Tools
Knot your average sheep...
Popularising mathematics the ovine way...
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Online Teaching Tools
Information is Beautiful
A blog dedicated to distilling the world’s data, information and knowledge into beautiful, interesting and, above all, useful visualizations, infographics and diagrams...
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“Creativity is a new: purpose, process, procedure, thought, action, style, content...”
—Professor George G. Youngson, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital
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“The sciences develop enquiring minds and nurture learners’ natural curiosity, imagination and creativity...”
—CfE Briefing 15 - Sciences for all
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Inspiring Moments
Crime Scene Investigation: Kersland School
The popular television programme ‘Crime Scene Investigation’ provided the context for Kersland’s whole school interdisciplinary learning approach...
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Quotes
“"The Creative Industries consistently punch well above their weight, outperforming all the other main industry sectors, and are a powerhouse within the UK economy...”
—Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Maria Miller
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Online Teaching Tools
App smashing for teachers: The power of app cross-pollination
TED Education article on stringing multiple tablet apps together to create, synthesise and adapt...
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“True scientific progress relies as much on an excellent specific education as on creativity and an ability to think and venture beyond what appears to be correct and reasonable...”
—Philipp Kukura, Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford
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Online Teaching Tools
Live UnLtd
Live UnLtd backs people aged 11-21 who want to change their world for the better...
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Online Teaching Tools
TED - The Creative Spark
Over 300 filmed talks on a broad range of creative themes by some of the leading speakers and innovators...
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Quotes
“We work a lot with the arts at the observatory, in many ways...”
—Dan Hillier, Edinburgh Observatory
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Online Teaching Tools
Improving Gender Balance in Coding Clubs
A toolkit for encouraging gender balance that can be used to inform all voluntary learning experiences, clubs and Community Learning and Development...
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“Science and arts are not an either/or...”
—Creative Industries Federation
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Online Teaching Tools
Young Engineers and Science Clubs
A network of over 430 science, engineering and technology clubs throughout Scotland, with a membership of more than 5,000 young people engaging in practical hands-on science and engineering activities to enthuse them to pursue a career in science...