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PROFESSIONALS GO BACK TO SCHOOL	TEACHER DISCOVERY PLACEMENT

This is an initiative that supports representatives from the industry visiting schools and participate in collaborative activities for one hour to half a day. The school organises an exchange session and prepares the visit of a STEM professional.	The STEM Alliance has developed the Teacher Discovery Placement Scheme, an initiative in collaboration with the SYSTEMIC project that highlights existing placement programmes and help ensure the success, promotion and development of these placements.
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Creating Interactive Tutorials

Subject: computer science, information and communications technology (ICT), software
Age: 6 - 18
Supported by: Microsoft
Language: English

Description: In the Microsoft TouchDevelop application users can create and distribute interactive tutorials where they get help from the system to create a particular script. The tutorials are easy to create and they do not require any experience in programming. They...

Using Biotechnology to Detect and Treat Disease - Lesson plan

Subject: biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, genetics, medicine, pharmaceutics, technology
Age: 14 - 19
Supported by: AMGEN
Language: English

Description: Lesson plan "Using Biotechnology to Detect and Treat Disease" is the fifth of five components of the Biotechology Collection funded by the Amgen Foundation and produced by WGBH. In this media-rich lesson, students will learn how...