This collection provides lots of STEM challenges and resources linked to science topics in the primary curriculum. Many support learning skills in design and technology and can be run as a project.

The challenge days support teachers in running their own Aerospace engineers or Lighthouse keeper transfer...

A series of resources designed to explore the future of flight and the aviation industry. Resources develop pupils knowledge and skills in engineering, technology, mathematics and science. 

A series of resources from The Institution of Engineering and Technology designed to allow pupils to use the theme of the London Marathon to develop their knowledge and skills in Design & Technology.

This set of resources combine sport with engineering and showcase the many ways that STEM influences sport as well as the variety of different career paths. Activities range from using fractions and probabilities to build a football team to designing their own football kit. All are mapped to the national curriculum...

This resource sets out the knowledge, skills and understanding that trainee teachers will need in order to be able to manage their students’ behaviour. Effective teacher training incorporates activities and teaching that leads to these outcomes and prepares trainees to manage behaviour confidently and with...

This paper, published to coincide with Science and Engineering Week 2013, presents evidence from research carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to explore how to encourage further engagement in, and take-up of, STEM subjects. It discusses why STEM education is important and looks at...

International LEGO day is celebrated annually on 28th January, which marks the day the first patent for the Lego brick was submitted in Denmark. Use these resources to help mark the day.

The Human Impact - Saving Today's Dinosaurs' course and A future without waste resources are part of the...

This collection of resources have been collated to support the United Nations International day of women and girls in science which recognises the critical role women play in science and technology, and promotes full and equal access and participation in STEM subjects for women and girls.

The first items in...

These INSET resources from the National Curriculum Council (NCC) provide a range of activities for teachers of Key Stages One to Four to help them achieve continuity and progression in their design and technology lessons. The programme gives a picture of the practice at the time (1991) in a rapidly changing area of...

Most of the food we buy comes packed in plastic, cardboard or tins and jars, but why? Children explore this question, by investigating the properties of...

In this resource from the IET, pupils learn about density and materials, whilst creating their own density columns and making jingle bells dance. Using Christmas as the context for this STEM experiment, the activity provides detailed guidance and a maze puzzle extension activity.

Aimed at primary level, the seventeen activities this pack investigate science around the theme of water. They link to the topics of states of matter, materials, electricity and area of design and technology and geography.

The activities include: creating a model of the water cycle, demonstrating surface...

Produced by the Chilled Food Association (CFA), these activities are aimed at Key Stage One children. They look at the topics of:
* Food hygiene and hand-washing
* Food and taste
* Developing a new food product

Primarily aimed at STEM ambassadors, these resources are also readily used by...

This version of the National Curriculum for primary schools was published in January 1995 for implementation later that year. Programmes of study and attainment targets are set out for each of the subjects taught at Key Stages One and Two - English, mathematics, science, design and technology, information...