This activity is a space-themed coding project for learners, combining six to ten hours of STEM linked learning. These lessons use Scratch game creation to explore space and interplanetary missions.

This series of short tasks is designed to assess how well students understand proportional reasoning in practical contexts. The contexts featured include:

• Relating a photograph to its negative
• Water used by a washing machine
• Coffee powder and cups of coffee made
• Stamp...

Tunnelworks is a series of teaching and learning resources linking mathematics and science to the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, a major new sewer that will help protect the River Thames from increasing pollution. Background to the project is given in the ...

This activity examines the meanings of the terms reduce, reuse and recycle. Students consider the efficacy of recycling and reusing and whether they produce the desired results of reducing waste and energy requirements and minimising primary resource use. They then compare the impacts of recycling aluminium to...

This scheme of work, produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), allows students to investigate environmental issues in the context of the design and operation of a new school. Students are introduced to the concept of recycling and then apply their...

This magic trick from the Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) team at QMUL is based on a ‘self-working trick’. It includes a set of instructions which, so long as the commands are followed, works every time. It is, therefore, an algorithm.

The trick involves playing cards – the actual value of the cards is not...

This lesson develops the concept of combining transformations. In particular students will:

• Recognise and visualise transformations of 2D shapes
• Translate, reflect and rotate shapes, and combine these transformations
• Discuss some common misconceptions about transformations
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This is a problem solving lesson where students develop their understanding of how to interpret frequency graphs that use grouped data, together with their associated box plots. Particular attention is paid to minimum and maximum values, medians and quartiles.

The lesson begins with students interpreting...

This lesson develops the concept of using diagrammatic representations of calculations. Attention is paid to order of operations, along with the distributive and commutative properties.

An introductory activity considers areas of rectangles in relation to calculations, what is often termed ‘the grid method...

This is a concept development lesson that involves deepening understanding of how to calculate the mean, median, mode, and range from a frequency chart. Coverage is also given to using a frequency chart to describe a possible data set given information on the mean, median, mode and range.

The situation is...

This problem solving resource is intended to help students with recognizing and using proportional relationships, including through the use of graphs

Students are given information about a road race. They are presented with a map and information about the speeds of two runners. The race consists of four laps...

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Students are asked to design and make an acrylic fridge magnet that would remind a specific type of user to recycle the waste produced within their kitchen at home. To begin students are asked to identify some typical workshop tools, to embed the task within the resistant materials area of design & technology....

These materials use the land speed record attempt as a context for teaching about the irreversible changes and energy transfers that occur in BLOODHOUND SSC’s rocket engine.

The BLOODHOUND SuperSonic Car (SSC) World...