Projects
win prizes
April 28, 2006
Share your science teaching ideas and enter one of these
awards
TES Primary Science Teaching AwardsAstraZeneca Science
Teaching Trust/Times Educational Supplement in conjunction
with the Association for Science Education
These awards are aimed at raising the profile of primary
science, recognising talented teachers and engaging
children in science. Nominations open each autumn. Open to
all primary teachers.
www.ase.org.uk
www.tes.co.uk
The Royal Society Partnership Grant
This scheme offers up to £3,000 for teachers, scientists
and engineers to work together on inspiring activities
involving pupils aged 5 to 18. Any UK teacher can apply for
a grant, awarded directly to the school, to meet costs such
as equipment, travel and teacher supply cover.
Perhaps most importantly, these projects give school
students a taste of science and engineering, and their
relevance for today's society.
www.royalsoc.ac.uk
Science Learning Centres
These centres offer up to £500 for teachers or technicians
who want to link their courses with school-based work.
Applicants should show how they would use the money for
their school. This should include at least three days'
school-based work. Tutorial support is available. Teachers
can use this work towards a 30-credit M-level
accreditation.
www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk
Teaching Awards Trust
The trust aims to celebrate excellence and promote best
practice.
Award categories each year include specialist teachers and
secondary teachers. All schools in England, Wales and
Northern Ireland are invited to nominate their most
outstanding headteachers, teachers and teaching assistants.
Nominations for next year must be endorsed by the senior
manage-ment team.
www.teachingawards.com
Salters' National Awards for Science Technicians
Open to science technicians with five or more years'
experience working in schools and colleges for students to
age 18. Nominations can be made by the headeacher or head
of science. Closing date May 1, 2007. There are four awards
of £250 each.
www.salters.co.uk/institute/ Institute of Physics Teachers'
Award
Do you know a physics or primary science teacher who is
cosmically inspiring? Does he or she make science or
physics astronomically exciting and challengingly cool? If
so, why not nominate them for an Institute of
Physics Teachers' Award?
www.iop.org
British Nuclear Group Whiteboard Awards
Enter an interactive whiteboard lesson to support either
the science, design and technology or the maths curriculum
for primary or secondary education. First prize in each
category, for teachers themselves, is £1,000, with two
runners-up prizes of £250. Closing date July 31.
www.bnfl.com
www.rfl-ltd.com
Castme (Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and
Mathematics Educators) Castme is offering prizes of up to
£500 for an original educational project which addresses
the social context of science, technology and maths.
Projects should include a substantial account of teaching
or other educational work, eg curriculum development or
teacher training, and should not have been published
before. The Alexander prize of £350, supported by the ASE,
is for women educators working under difficult conditions.
Projects must be submitted by September 30.
Email: mjnbrookman@yahoo.co.uk. www.castme.org/award.htm
Pulse
Funded by the Wellcome Trust, Pulse funding is for projects
exploring the teaching of science through the arts,
particularly the performing arts.
Applications can be for workshops or school-based projects
for grants of Pounds 10,000, or for touring projects up to
£50,000. Innovative project formats are encouraged, but
funding is now closed for this year.
www.wellcome.ac.uk/node2550.html
Nuffield research bursaries
These bursaries are offered to post-16 students to enable
them to take part in four to six-week science-based
projects in a university or industry setting during the
summer holidays. Each year about 600 bursaries are managed
by 19 regional co-ordinators.
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/go/grants/scibsc/page_97.html
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