Six for Six Module 5 - Getting Around

The key idea with these activities from Siemens is to get students thinking about the challenges associated with organising transport. They will have first-hand experience of issues relating to transport, whether in terms of convenience, cost or reliability but here they look at wider issues such as impact on the environment. Each of the resources uses transport as a theme and draws upon a range of skills from the STEM curriculum when challenging students to develop ideas and solutions.

• Using the context of a bus company these activities investigate congestion and pollution of three different types of motive power including data interpretation exercises suitable for pupils aged 11 to 14.
• An interactive self- driving challenge activity introduces another set of tasks based upon the concept of electric cars suitable for pupils aged 14 to 16.

The collection includes:

• Comprehensive teacher notes - Introducing and providing an overview of key learning objectives for the resources and/or activity suggestions
• Curated lesson plans
• interactive online learning tool
• activity suggestions and worksheets

The resources covering key stages three and four are gathered together here for sake of convenience but there is no expectation or suggestion that they be used consecutively. Rather the idea is that as and when the topics arise in schemes of work that the resources are accessed and deployed.