This guide is suitable to support a full introductory wearable-technology project using Arduino. It gives an overview of the Arduino system as well as the key terms surrounding ‘making’ and ‘hacking’. After a brief review of basic electrical theory, a closer look at the inputs and outputs of a basic board, and of...

Outdoor classroom day is part of a campaign to ensure that children spend some time outdoors every day. So that schools can participate on a day that fits with their term dates, the UK and Ireland campaign celebrates Outdoor classroom cay twice each year, in May and November.

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Outdoor classroom day is part of a campaign to ensure that young people spend some time outdoors every day. So that schools can participate on a day that fits with their term dates, the UK and Ireland campaign celebrates Outdoor classroom cay twice each year, in May and November.

PICAXE-08 Proto Board, PICAXE Family, Kit Contents Small Self-Assembly Board, All Parts, Small Self-assembly Board to Allow Rapid Prototyping of PICAXE-08 Circuits.

The board...

The BOT120 Microbot from Revolution uses a unique patented 'Microbric'  to join various input/output modules together so that the robot can be reconfigured using only an Allen key.

The PICAXE-20X2 based cross-curricularboard contains two motors/gearboxes with speed control, two LED eyes and a piezo sounder....

Help encourage your child's STEM skills, passion and talent with this parents' guide to engineering careers.

This study unit offers some practical strategies that teachers use to structure learning. The techniques suggested are tried and tested; they draw on both academic research and the experience of practising teachers.

By working through this guide you can build your teaching repertoire step by step, starting...

This study unit offers some practical strategies that teachers use to improve the climate for learning. The techniques suggested are tried and tested; they draw on both academic research and the experience of practising teachers.

This study unit offers some practical strategies that teachers use to manage their classrooms, drawing on both academic research and the experience of practising teachers.

The guide enables teachers to build their...

Defines terms and phrases related to computers, programming, electronics, artificial intelligence, computer languages, telecommunications, and mathematics...

This document was designed to help school leaders and teachers explore key aspects of personalised teaching and learning and to consider their priorities for further development. For each aspect, there is a section on “How to do this well”, and the guidance was firmly based on practice consistently demonstrated in...

Control electrical sockets within a range of up to 30 metres, through doors, walls and ceilings. In the pack is one Pi controller board, 2 remote control sockets and a start up guide which shows how simple on/off control can be achieved.

This Picoboard is a piece of hardware that allows your Scratch projects to interact with the outside world. Unique programming ‘blocks’ allow for easy inclusion of sensor feedback into your program.

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Scientists at the University of Oxford are developing and improving computer programs that can learn. Often it is useful to feed computer programs a series of images and to get the computer to identify or sort them in some way, but how do computers create or store...

This resource contains four instant maths ideas exploring how to represent data graphically. In the first task students record how long they watch TV, group the results and draw two separate graphs to compare boys and girls. The second task requires students to consider what type of diagram is suitable to represent...