Resources by National STEM Learning Centre and Network
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Problem solving challenge: Buildings and fire safety
In this 5 hour STEM Clubs teaching pack students examine ways in which communities can put measures into place to make sure people and properties are safe, and look at how the IoT can bring additional benefits to this safety.
It is recommended that, prior to this...
Problem solving challenge: Can the internet improve fire safety
In this extended five hour communities and fire safety challenge, students work in small groups, to design, make, test and evaluate an electronic system to provide early warning in the event of a fire breaking out. They...
Problem solving challenge: Fire detection with the Internet of Things
In this 5 hour Mathematics teaching pack, students are asked to consider how the internet of things can connect the previously unconnected, and how this can be used in fire detection systems.
Students are asked to work towards a CREST Discovery Award by designing a connected fire detection system in teams...
Problem solving challenge: using computational thinking and the Internet of Things to improve fire safety
This five hour teaching pack examines how everyday technologies can be connected via the Internet Of Things (IoT) to improve fire safety.
From the sensors...
Problem solving challenge: using design and the Internet of Things to improve fire fighter safety
This five hour teaching pack supports students to research, design and prototype their own Internet of things product to enhance the working lives of firefighters.
...Professional Development for Primary Teachers to Deliver STEM Activities
Castlebrook High School was aware that many of its feeder primary schools found it difficult to deliver exciting STEM projects. In this project they aimed to...
Programming VEX IQ robots in Robot C
This resource develops coding with RobotC, in combination with VEX robotics. It provides a series of student tasks that increase in difficulty over time, developing student awareness of RobotC and its application within robotics. This resource would work as a compliment to using VEX IQ in the classroom and as a...
Progression in practical science
- What is practical science like in many secondary schools?
- What do we want it to look like?
- How can teachers, departments and schools be encouraged to plan...
Promoting Innovation through Practical STEM Based Activities
With the introduction of the revised National Curriculum programmes of study, one of the Hampshire Leading Mathematics Teachers’ (LMT) core groups decided to focus on activities to promote cross-curricular STEM work in schools.
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