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IET Education Primary Resources
This collection provides lots of STEM challenges and resources linked to science and design and technology topics in the primary curriculum. Many support learning skills across the curriculum and can also be run as a project.
The challenge day resources support teachers in running their own aerospace engineers or lighthouse keeper transfer challenge day with children. They can be used to enhance the curriculum as children need to apply existing knowledge of electrical circuits, forces, design and construction in an integrated project. Although the challenges are designed to be delivered across one day they can also be split into smaller parts and used over several weeks or within a STEM Club.
Further resources within this collection can be linked to a variety of topics and themes, such as World Book Day, food and nutrition, plants, animals and mathematics.
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Investigate reverse writing through mirror games
This STEM activity teaches learners about the reflection of light in a mirror, by giving pupils the opportunity to use reverse writing to see how words change when reflected in a mirror and then make notes on this. This activity could be used as a starter or main activity to introduce concepts of light and build on...
3D shape nets
Nets are used to make almost all forms of card packaging, ranging from simple cereal boxes to display boxes with clear polymer ‘windows’, to display stands. In this activity children consider how 3D packaging may be made from a 2D net, then make card models of a pyramid and a cube from nets. They may combine...
Learn to count: balloon rocket activity
In this activity learners will to countdown backwards using different steps i.e. 1s, 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. This will prepare learners to count to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with zero, or from any given number. To enhance engagement, learners will release balloon ‘rockets’ when each countdown...
The human body
In this activity children learn to identify parts of the human body, by cutting out and assembling a 2D model. It includes a presentation and sheets of the main body parts ready to cut out and assemble.
This resource has been provided by the IET, (Institution of Engineering and Technology).