World Book Day - 6th March 2025
This collection of resources can be used to help your class enjoy World Book Day and support literacy and reading.
There are resources linked to The Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize, as well as activities designed to allow pupils to make their own book bags and bookends, or to create characters from their favourite books. The Frankie the flamingo resource collection includes animated books to watch together on the themes of water and engineering, with associated activity sheets also provided.
Further support for teaching science through stories can also be found in this collection based around popular children’s books and the science hidden within the stories.
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The Young People's Book Prize aims to promote literacy in young people and to inspire them to read about science. It also supports the writing of excellent, accessible STEM books for under-14s.
Design a book bag
This classroom activity will enable pupils to design and make a fabric bag big enough to carry their books. Pupils will measure and cut the fabric and decorate it with a book or other personal theme. They will then sew their fabric to create the finished bag. Finally, they will test their book bag to see how well...
Design a bookend
In this classroom activity pupils will design, test and make a bookend to assist in the storage of books. The bookend can be decorated to inspire and encourage reading of the books being stored.
Pupils will first make a card model of their bookend design and then produce a finished bookend from wood and card...
Making characters from simple shapes
This resource supports mathematical understanding by making representations of characters from books using basic shapes.
Pupils will design a two-dimensional image for character from a book, using basic shapes. This teaching resource could be used as a one-off lesson activity to reinforce understanding of...
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| Subject(s) | Cross curricular |
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| Age | 4-5, 5-7, 7-11, 11-14 |
| Published | 2020 to date |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxjgsx |
