Resources by Department for Education
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Briefing Pack for STEM Careers Ambassadors
This training pack from the Department for Education is designed to help STEM professionals enhance their skills and enable them to become even more active in schools and communities. The emphasis within the training pack on challenging myths and stereotypes will also support STEM Ambassadors in encouraging the...
Calculator Activities
The activities in this booklet from the National Numeracy Strategy make use of a calculator as a teaching and learning aid. They are intended to help children in Key Stage Two understand and practise mathematical ideas and skills. They range from 'Words' where students...
Carbon Footprints
In this activity from the Department for Education students work with statistical information to communicate key ideas connected to reducing climate change. Students look at the carbon footprint of the average UK citizen, consider how different spheres of activity contribute to this footprint and examine ways this...
Careers
This series of...
Classifying Shapes SS1
In this resource from the DfE Standards Unit, students learn to name and classify polygons according to their properties, develop mathematical language to describe the similarities and differences between shapes and develop convincing explanations as to why combinations of particular properties are impossible. (...
Climate Scientist *suitable for home teaching*
Elizabeth Kendon is a climate scientist at the Met Office, studying extreme weather patterns and the impact they have on Earth. This Department for Education video clip introduces her work and how she uses mathematical modelling to study climate change. She illustrates how skills in science, mathematics and...
Closing the gap: test and learn - executive summary (Winter 2016)
'Closing the gap: test and learn' is the first programme in the world to trial multiple interventions simultaneously using a wholly collaborative approach across a large number of schools.
In this programme, over 200 teaching schools alliances worked together to carry out 11 large-scale, randomised...
This collection of resources provides material to support the development of behaviour for learning strategies.
Common weaknesses in GCSE science
Have you read the examiner reports from the Awarding Organisations who assess your students recently? If not, visit their website and download the most recent report to find out which aspects of science were most commonly misunderstood or confused during the examinations.
This resource from National...
These materials support teachers, careers and personal advisers who are working together to broaden knowledge of STEM opportunities amongst students and parents. Resources include posters and support materials for practitioners. Teachers may also find the following eLibrary collections useful:
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