Loose Parts Play Toolkit
Providing practical guidance about loose parts play to those who work with children and young people of all ages – including childminders – and advocating the use of loose parts as an approach to developing play opportunities at home, outdoors and in the community.
This useful resource can be found on Membership Dashboard via the Learning Library.
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NASA Science for Kids
NASA Space Place's mission is to inspire and enrich children’s learning about space and Earth science online through fun games, hands-on activities, informative articles and engaging short videos.
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Scottish Government Online STEM Module
A STEM-based learning package has been developed by the Scottish Government in partnership with the University of the West of Scotland, which provides multi-media resources and activities for those working with children to help develop curiosity in the world around them.
(This link will take you straight to the sign-in page, where you should enter ‘STEM’ in the module search box to enrol for the STEM module.)
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Curriculum for Excellence Science Principles and Practice
Learning through play using the principles of the sciences, children and young people develop their interest in, and understanding of, the living, material and physical world around them. Engaging in a wide range of collaborative investigative tasks, enables them to develop important skills to become more creative, inventive and enterprising in the future.
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Scottish Schools Education Research Centre (SSERC)
Providing support for science and technology education across Scotland. SSERC have developed some activities that allow you to easily engage with your children at home through easily accessible STEM videos. These videos allow you to do the activity along with us or watch them together and then recreate the activity.
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