It all begins innocently enough,
with the picture on the right giving you a clue to some of  the work you’ll need to carry out.

As usual, the 3rd puzzle is sure to get you thinking, or quite possibly tearing your hair out!

You’ll find the Puzzles by using the link below:

Monthly Maths Puzzles Glow Group

Best of luck!

Pupils across Scotland will have the chance to take part in activities and Glow Meets about five hot science topics in the Too Hot to Handle? series in the next few months, starting next week with Space for P6-S1 on 25^th March.

Cathy Southworth from Edinburgh University is heading up this development and is keen to involve as many youngsters as possible. She says, “Too Hot To Handle? is here to support the Topical Science organiser of a Curriculum for Excellence from P6-S3. It provides access to current scientists in Scotland that work on a range of hot topics, through a vidcast, teaching materials and a discussion board for questions about the topics that are answered by the scientists, and a GLOW meet where you can grill the scientists with questions.”

As well as learning about the science, pupils will get a flavour of the excitement of being a scientist.

Visit the Too Hot to Handle Glow Group. Have a look at the wealth of materials for the Space topic, show your class the videos, post some questions for the scientists on the discussion board and come into the Glow Meet on 25^th to grill the space scientists – Noe Kains from The University of St Andrews and Duncan Forgan and Chris Evans from The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.

There will be a competition challenge on the day and members of your class could win a prize.  

Other topics in the series:
Flu Fighters for 2nd level (P6-P7) ready for after the Easter break; Glow Meet 20th May
Biodiversity Buzz for 2^nd & 3^rd  levels (P7-S2) ready for after the Easter break; Glow Meet 25th May
Doable Renewables for 2^nd & 3^rd  levels (P7-S2) ready for May; Glow Meet 15th June
Me and my Brain for third and fourth levels (S1-S3) ready for May; Glow Meet 17th June

This week too, we have another two science based Glow Meets:
Dr Bunhead’s Spoofbusters on 16^th (1.30 – 2.30) for upper primary and secondary pupils,
Industrial Chemistry on 18^th (1.45-2.45) for Higher and AH Chemistry pupils.

All these Glow Meets use the same Science Glow Meet webpart in the National Sciences Glow Group. 

How is your memory? Could it be improved?

Join Drew McAdam, Scotland’s foremost mindreader to find out how to improve your memory and learning techniques.

Join this Glow Meet in collaboration with the BBC and find out how to use systems to make the most of your memory. You can put these to good use for revision or in fact anything else!

Drew will be working with an S4 class at Kirkintilloch High School and allowing everyone else to join using Glow Meet. These techniques can be applied across the curriculum and used by pupils at a range of stages.

Ever wished you could get your brain to work better? Brainsmart can help you discover how to:

* maximise your memory
* get motivated
* achieve your goals

Find out more about the BBC Brainsmart website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/brainsmart/

Sign up and take part in the Brainsmart Glow group:

https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/MINDPLAY%20with%20Drew%20McAdam/default.aspx

Join author Annemarie Allan in Glow Meet to find out more about Breaker, an undersea adventure.

‘Tom and Beth are not happy when they move to North Berwick and find themselves facing a rainy, windswept beach, a house that’s falling apart and a school full or strangers. When they meet Professor Macblain, with his weird and wonderful inventions, little do they know that he has a secret: not only is he a thief, but he has stolen the one thing that can save the Firth of Forth from environmental catastrophe.’

Find out what inspires Annemarie to write, delve in to the wonderful world of sealife in North Berwick and ask her questions. Explore a range of themes such as family, making friends and moving to a new place. Find out more about living by the sea, green energy, science and the environment.

Law Primary will be joining Annemarie at the Scottish Seabird Centre to get some insight into being an author, writing skills and the wonderful book Breaker which is set in North Berwick where they go to school.

This Glow Meet is aimed at pupils from P4 – P7 and is being run in partnership with the Scottish Seabird Centre and Floris Books.

Find out more
To sign up for this Glow Meet click here to visit the Glow group.

In this cookbook we will look at how Marie-Louise used Glow Learn to develop a short course for the learners in their topic, The Vikings. Marie-Louise found that through using the Glow Learn platform the learners were able to make full use of their allocated ICT time and the learning in this time was purposeful and ensured that ICT was supporting learning.

Various video clips will talk you through the project including how to create learning objectives in Glow Learn, how to add pupils to the course and how to track pupils’ work using monitor and Track.

Visit this Glowing Cookbook to get started.

There are five standalone Early Years Centres and eight Nursery Schools in West Lothian. Since these Early Years establishments are not attached to a school, they do not have access to a school Glow establishment site. West Lothian therefore asked to have a separate, single Glow establishment created for the standalone Early Years establishments. The staff in all of these nurseries had their Glow accounts provisioned within this establishment, which is called ‘West Lothian Early Years’ to enable them to all work together.

Visit this Glowing Cookbook and follow Margo’s story including video footage of how to set up a Glow Meet.

Parents have the right to ‘Just Ask’ for help for their child, either from school or the local authority, to help them navigate their way through whatever issue is affecting them. There are a wide range of reasons why children may need additional support for the learning at school, and these can be temporary as well as long-term. Help is entirely individualised to the child’s needs and parents are fully involved along the way.

Find out more about how you can access additional support for your child in a special Glow Meet to be held on Wednesday 24th March. The event takes place in the Parents Glow Group 11-12pm and again from 7-8pm.

A representative from Enquire, the independent advisory service, will be available to answer your questions and there will also be case studies of young people who have been helped and more information on the range of issues and help that can be provided.

If you think your child may benefit from extra help it is your right to request it. Whatever you think might be affecting them at school; all you have to do is ask. For information on how to make sure your child gets everything they need from their education call the Enquire helpline on 0845 123 2303 or visit infoscotland.com/justask.

If you require further information about this special Glow Meet or you just want some help to access it please contact Jennifer McDougall, Glow Development Officer – j.mcdougall@ltscotland.org.uk

For the chance to win an exclusive bendy Glowing keyboard, simply send a short video clip to the Glow team at: Glowadmin@ltscotland.org.uk starting the video with ‘I love Glow because…’. Every month a new winner will be announced and their video will be uploaded to the GlowScotland website.

We’ve already uploaded some clips of primary and secondary pupils from across Scotland telling us why they love Glow. Visit the GlowScotland website to find out more.

What exactly is a Glow Cookbook I hear you ask? Put simply it is description of how Glow is being used by classroom practitioners and how it has enhanced learning and teaching with their pupils.

Like a traditional cookbook it contains the ingredients, which Glow components have been used, some advice on method, a quick ‘how to’ video, and the end product, a description of the impact from the teacher or pupils.

So if you’d like to know how to use Glow for innovative and successful transitions or use Glow Meet to support conversational French or how to create a Worry Forum or how to embed video as a stimulus for writing or how to use  Glow for Personal Learning Planning or enhancing staff communication or…OK  so you get the point. Go on take a peek and leave us some feedback.

We hope to add many more of these short cookbooks to help generate useful ideas and showcase how Glow is being used around the country.

Glow Cookbooks can be accessed via the Glow national site Help link or linking directly to http://cookbooks.glowscotland.org.uk/ or using a Google search for Glow Cookbooks.

Tell your story and win a Flip video camera

We’d love to hear and share your story. How are you using Glow and what has been the impact on you or your pupils? Please send us your Glow Cookbook for sharing on our cookbook site. From the first fifty we will select three winners to receive a natty Flip video camera. All content should be emailed to glowadmin@ltscotland.org.uk and titled Cookbook competition.

What are we looking for?

Take a look at some of the current cookbooks they follow a similar format. This is a useful template for creating your cookbook. There are some points that you need to bear in mind:

• Your cookbook should include a brief context
• It should include pictures and screen shots – but we don’t expect you to submit any video
• Any graphics etc should be copyright friendly and all photos must have the appropriate permissions granted for sharing over the internet
• The main element of the cookbook will be a description of the impact using Glow has had on facilitating learning
• You do not need to include any instructions on how to add, amend or use specific web parts
• An email address would be most useful to encourage further collaboration
• All submitted cookbooks (subject to a QA process) will be shared on the Glow Cookbook siteSo get writing! We know that there are lots of you using Glow for a whole variety of contexts and curricular areas and we’d love to share these stories!