Sciences
Improving the school environment
Craighead Primary School pupils work together and with local businesses and other organisations to improve their environment, including planting a garden, creating a wormery and installing a wind turbine.
Growing plants with a garden centre
Hopetoun Garden Centre helped children at Ladywell Nursery to grow their own plants so they could learn about the environment and healthy eating.
Building bridges with a construction company
A video about developing and building partnerships between Scottish schools and local businesses. This video focuses on the partnership between St Stephen's Primary School (Glasgow city) and their partnership with local construction/consultancy business Halcrow.
Using what you learn in the real world
Police officers and staff from the Crash Investigation Unit demonstrate the application of maths and physics to students at a local College in a 'real world' context. The students participate by using formulas that they learn in class to solve problems and gather data from a recreated accident scene. Police staff, teaching staff and pupils describe why learning through this partnership is effective and enjoyable.
Primary pupils rear fish for ecology project
Alva Primary School and environmental organsations worked together to rear trout, which were released in the burn that runs through the school grounds.