Resources by BAE Systems
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This collection of resources from BAE Systems contains a series of worksheets for use in the classroom. Looking at different aspects of science, design and technology, and mathematics, they provide activity ideas alongside explanations of the concepts underpinning the investigations. They also aim to encourage...
Bridge Building
In this activity children are challenged to build a bridge 50cm wide to support the weight of a food tin. They must do this using only drinking straws, tape and string. First they investigate different shapes to find out which will be better at absorbing load. They then design and create their bridges and test them...
Cinderella
This resource provides an introductory video with a STEM Ambassador reading the story of Cinderella and a follow on activity for children to carry out. In this activity, children act as engineers in order to help Cinderella with a problem. She needs a device that will time 20 seconds. Children work in teams to...
Circuits
Explore how electricity flows and the effect of conductors and insulators in this whole class activity. Using balloons and a range of everyday objects children role-play parts of a circuit including: batteries, light bulbs, connecting wires, conductors and insulators.
Aimed at primary level, this activity...
Create you own bulb thermometer
In this activity, students make their own thermometer using a jar and a straw. There is a simple explanation of expansion in liquids and questions for students to answer about the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales.
Diameter of the Moon
In this activity, students use similar triangles to estimate the diameter of the moon.
This collection provides several engineering or D&T activities that are set in the context of popular Fairy Tales. Each activity finds a problem that a character in the story has and asks children to come up with an engineering solution for the problem. Children then work together in teams to design and make...
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
This resource provides an introductory video with a STEM Ambassador reading the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and a follow-on activity for children to carry out. In the activity children think like engineers in order to help Goldilocks build a chair that seats ALL the bears at once. First children find...
Hansel and Gretel
This resource provides an introductory video with a STEM Ambassador reading the story of Hansel and Gretel and a follow-on activity for children to carry out. In the activity, linked to programming and D&T, children help Gretel escape and rescue Hansel from the witch by writing step by step directions to get...
How Water Behaves
This activity sheet looks at the changing state of water. Children think about the way water behaves when it is heated to boiling point or cooled to freezing point and discuss the changes in state. They then look at some of the properties of water in its liquid state and write them down.
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