Resources by Department for Education

Planning and Managing Progression in Science Training Materials

These Key Stage Three National Strategy training materials from the Department for Education are designed to run a session with school science department Subject Leaders with overall responsibility for the Key Stage Three science scheme of work.

Planning for Discussion

In this Standards Unit: Improving Learning in Mathematics video teachers can explore some of the issues that they and trainers need to consider when planning discussion.

The video sequence considers the following questions:

* What are the issues that need to be considered when grouping learners? *...

Polar Bears in Trouble

In this Science upd8 activity students take on the role of a trainee documentary producer working for an environmental channel. The television programme scenario, ‘Bears in Trouble’, explores how rising temperatures in the Arctic could be endangering the survival of polar bears. Polar bears seem perfectly adapted...

Preparing Ingredients

These short videos are part of the Licence to Cook course and are intended to be shown in class to support the teaching of cooking skills and techniques in food technology. In each film, Year Eight and Year Nine students demonstrate how to prepare common ingredients, such as an onion, garlic...

Primary national strategy 'securing level' materials

These materials, from the Primary National Strategy, are intended to support teachers in ensuring that as many students as possible make the progress necessary to reach specific National Curriculum levels in mathematics. The guidance identifies key areas of learning that students need to secure in order to attain...

Problem solving with EYFS, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two children

These three resources, from the National Strategies, focus on solving problems.

Logic problems and puzzles...

Professional Development Materials

Standards Unit: Improving Learning in Mathematics professional development materials. Features notes and presentations describing the active learning approaches.

Getting started To encourage participants to: * reflect on their current assumptions, beliefs, and teaching practices; * consider...

Project Crunch

In this programme from Teachers TV, students at Thomas Alleyne's High School are set an enterprise project to launch a healthier brand of crisps, with the help of local manufacturer Glennans.

Glennans approached the school with an idea for a joint project to celebrate the company's 21st anniversary. Over...

Promoting SEAL Through the Curriculum

This resource considers how different subject areas can explicitly promote the learning of social and emotional skills. It provides an outline of how social and emotional skills are linked to subjects both in general terms and more specifically within each of the 2008 National Curriculum programmes of study. The...

Proportional Reasoning Transition Lessons

These transition lessons from the National Strategies have been developed to support transfer from middle to upper schools but will also support year-on-year transition in Key Stage Three for all secondary schools.

Three pairs of transition lessons are available: • Fractions, decimals and percentages, two...