This activity pack provides a range of activities that promote cross-curricular learning, so that STEM can be linked to other curriculum subjects and to student's own backgrounds, lives and interests. It has been designed for British Science Week 2024 on the theme of 'time'.

Activities are suitable for...

A set of simple scratch ‘debugging’ activities that children can use to apply their understanding of programs and codes.  Children are shown a series of faulty programs which are based around the water cycle.  They are then supported to use logical reasoning to locate and fix the bugs within them.  Notes for...

In this resource designed by the IET children use their maths skills to build their own football team. The activities explore the maths of fantasy football and football cards. Pupils compare numbers and measures, add totals and find differences within the context of exploring the ways that footballers can be...

In this activity, students create colour images from satellite data. This allows them to study how different surfaces reflect different wavelengths of light, how coloured images are created using an RGB model, and how band combinations can be chosen to examine a particular landscape effectively.

In Building a town, from Cre8ate maths, students are encouraged to consider the mathematical shapes which form the net of a building. Some simple models are shown and students could use these to construct their nets, before building the models themselves.

The initial activity in this resource asks students to start with x = 6 and write further equations where x = 6 is the solution. For example, subtracting two from both sides of the equation gives

x ­- 2 = 4

The next step is to use the equation given to build a more complicated one. An example is

This resource is a short task that looks at transformations of functions.

Three quadratics are shown on a grid. Students must match functions to the graphs.

This task is from the Mathematics Assessment Resource Service, a collaboration between UC Berkeley and the Shell Centre team at the University of...

[b]Ordering units of weight:[/b] the objective of this activity is to assess prior knowledge of learners and their understanding of metric units. Students are presented with a set of cards on which are written metric weights in grams, kilograms and in words. Students are required to place the cards in order of...

In this one hour activity, students evaluate the types of fire risks in different buildings.  In the context of a team which has been contracted by the local council to improve fire safety, each team picks a building type and produces advice for the council.

This assessment task from Bowland asks students to work out how much material is needed to make bunting to go round a garden. The key processes involved are representing, analysing, communicating and reflecting. Students are given a number of basic facts upon which to base their solution and two steps are suggested...

This short task considers a distance time graph for a bus journey. Students must answer a series of questions on interpreting the graph, including drawing the graph of the journey of a bus traveling in the opposite direction.   

The resource comes with both scored and unscored student work. This is useful...

This resource features a task that explores setting up and solving simultaneous equations in a practical context.

Ralph and Jody go to a shop to buy potato chips and candy bars. Each buys a different combination of the items, with the total cost to each person being given. One equation is given, and students...

This activity from the Nuffield Foundation shows students how to use Kruskal’s and Prim’s algorithms to solve minimum connector problems. A cable TV company wants to lay cables to connect the towns, laying the cable along the roads shown on a map of the Isle of Wight. They want to connect all of these towns to...

In this activity, learners will compare journey times for different modes of transport and will calculate the time to travel specified distances. It allows learners to apply their maths skills in a practical application.

Materials include an introductory presentation, activity sheet and handout.

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SMILE Card 1783 is a booklet containing twenty two activities designed for students to practice using a calculator correctly and begins with a test to find out whether students' calculator obeys the rules of BODMAS.

There follows a number of activities in which students use their calculator to complete the...