This document from the Department of Education looks at approaches to managing behaviour throughout the whole school at both a primary and secondary school. As part of the managing behaviour and bullying in schools case studies the resource explores: *Staff response to misbehaviour *'Golden Rules' and tickets *...

From Practical Action, this challenge asks students to design a simple wind turbine capable of lifting a cup off the floor to bench height. The winning team will be the one producing a machine that lifts the most weight. The resource includes an instruction sheet, wind turbine images, links to videos and...

This is one of a set of resources developed to support the teaching of the primary national curriculum. They are designed to support the delivery of key topics within science and design and technology. This resource focusses on the manufacture of an anemometer from household items.

This anemometer has a...

This topic from Siemens designed for primary aged pupils, uses the context of long distance communications to get them thinking about how scientific ideas are used to develop solutions to challenges and how technology is about comparing and evaluating different solutions.

• Ways of communicating...

This document from the Department of Education looks at how the White Horse Federation engages parents to discuss and improve pupil behaviour. The resource explores how the school talks with parents, develops language skills and online safety and its mobile phone policy, as part of the managing behaviour and...

World Meteorological Day takes place every year on 23rd March and commemorates the establishment of the World Meteorological Organization. This collection includes a number of activities looking at the weather and climate, from measuring weather phenomena such as rainfall, wind direction and speed, to using 3D...

These resources can be used to help celebrate World Ocean Day which was started to encourage people to unite and take action to protect and restore the ocean. There are separate collections of resources for both primary and secondary aged pupils.

These engaging activities can be used to introduce World Ocean Day into lessons.

They include:

• a design and build exercise to create a 'grabber' to collect samples from the sea floor, whilst learning about the importance of collecting organisms from the sea bed
• activities looking at the...

This list highlights a number of resources that could be used for by different subject areas for different age groups on World Rivers Day.  The theme of rivers covers a wide range of STEM topics from building bridges, harnessing their energy to generate electricity, to their importance in terms of the provision of...

This session focuses on Year 6 pupils revising and enhancing their understanding of a healthy and nutritious balanced diet. Pupils use the supporting PowerPoint presentation, inspiration from recipe books and the internet to design a range of dishes celebrating their key ingredient. This session gives children the...

This project allows children to set up a farm shop business and design, make and market a new lunchtime food product. It provides a range of opportunities to enhance Year 3 National Curriculum for:

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting resources that help Year 3 pupils to identify and describe the different parts of flowering plants. Children will revise previous plant knowledge and the session gives plenty of opportunities for practical learning and the meaningful application of mathematical...

This resource provides a lesson plan and support PowerPoint presentation that enhances the Year 3 maths curriculum, supporting pupils to calculate with money and give change. Through these resources children will make a non-food product using resources developed in previous sessions and then be introduced to the...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting PowerPoint to help Year 3 pupils to grow herbs from seeds and write a descriptive poem. Children will revise their learning on what plants need to grow and plant their own herb seeds. This session gives children the opportunity to take responsibility for their own...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting resources that help Year 3 pupils to design and conduct a survey and present their data in a pictogram. Through this session children are introduced to the idea of market research as a meaningful context for maths learning. This session is the third in a ten...