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 EU
Project Kicks Off
The 6-country EU
project to provide new e-learning materials has now begun,
and first drafts are being trialled by teachers in each
country. We need more teachers to help us, so please let us know
if you could assist - and get to visit Estonia in September
2003! June
02
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 GLOBE
Annual Review on-line
To find
out about some of the exciting developments in GLOBE-UK over the
last year, you can read our
Annual Review or download it as an Acrobat
file (full colour, 224k) or a Word
file (no pictures, 35k).
If you need the Acrobat
plug-in, click on the icon to download it.
- May 02
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 Photocall at
GLOBE School
To
improve our GLOBE educational materials we are working more closely
with several schools. One of the first is Our Lady of Lourdes in
Birmingham, where we called in for some press photographs...
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S tar Schools
and Centres
Although
there is no competition in reporting GLOBE data, it is good to
be able to thank all the Schools and Education Centres for their
contribution to world science over the last four years. The top
five reporting schools in the UK were (with the number of
data collected in brackets):
- Lady Joanna Thornhill Primary
School, Ashford, Kent (2992)
- Northfields Upper School,
Dunstable, Beds (1236)
- Worthern C.E Primary School,
Shropshire (967)
- Woodville C.E. Junior School,
Swadlincote, Derbyshire (778)
- Curry Rivel Primary School,
Curry Rivel, Taunton, Somerset (563)
And
the top five reporting Education Centres were:
- Stibbington Centre,
Peterborough (6838)
- Aran Outdoor Education
Resource, Lanlash, Arran (1294)
- Brandon Marsh Nature Centre,
Coventry (911)
- Gordon Brown Outdoor Centre,
Hampshire (782)
- Severn Trent Carsington Water,
Derbyshire (406)
Nov 02
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 E4SD
Project Begins
Thanks to support
from the Environmental Action Fund - run by the Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - GLOBE has now started a
new sustainable development education project: E4SD.
Over the next three years this will provide curriculum-focussed
materials enabling pupils to measure their progress towards
sustainability. April
02
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Regional
Teacher Training
Following our
links to regional Science and
Millennium Centres we now have the first
training courses agreed, with more to come shortly. Costs will be £50 for a full day course, inclusive of
GLOBE Manuals, site entrance
fees and lunch. Interested? Click
here for details -
Mar 02
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GLOBE Regional Centres
First it was just the Glasgow
Science Centre, now we are developing partnerships with
Regional Science Centres across England, including the Earth
Centre in Doncaster, the National
Space Centre in Leicester, @Bristol,
Manchester
Museum with more on the way. More details here! -
Feb 02
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