One of the trial units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. In this unit, teachers can examine what children already know about a particular sort of product, some of the values they have with regard to the product and set the scene for them to find out more.

One of the trial units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. In this unit, children examine different every day tools, such as potato peelers. The aim of the task is to examine how a number of tools are used and consider how they could be designed differently.

One of the trial units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children consider testing proceedures to evaluate what food they like and don't like. Testing food products requires a more subjective response than the testing of other products. It is important to develop a considered view of why...

One of the trial units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. In this unit, children examine containers of varying sorts, their contents and why they are the shape they are - everyday items.

Use questions to guide the students' thinking about the purpose and possible uses for a number...

Ideal for a Halloween-themed coding lesson! Using sparkles to mirror a candle in a pumpkin – can you make it flicker or only come on once it’s dark?

This cross curricular resource explores the difference that growing pumpkins can make to the lives of people living in flood affected regions in Bangladesh. It includes finding out about Bangladesh and its people and ways to address poverty, investigating the pumpkin lifecycle and seed germination, designing and...

Produced by The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), these materials encourage primary children to use reclaimed materials to make a range of products that include a model person, stacking toy, necklace, model car and powered roundabout.

The skills pupils develop during the activities include...

Ideal for a Halloween-themed coding lesson! Using sparkles to imitate eyes in a portrait – but can be made harder using LDRs or making the lights fade in and out.

Produced by the Nuffield Foundation, these resources look at wheels and their uses.

In Roly poly, a story is told of two children who design and make their own wheel-based toys. It can be used to get children thinking about designing and making their own rolling toys. The resource is presented as a self-...

Box 1, the green box of ASE’s SATIS 8-14 project, contain ten booklets with resources suggesting activities for teaching science and technology in years three and four of Key Stage Two. Book 10 included six units all related to renewable sources of energy.

Box 1, the green box of ASE’s SATIS 8-14 project, contained ten booklets with resources suggesting activities for teaching science and technology in years three and four of Key Stage Two. Book 3 included five units.

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Box 1, the green box of ASE’s SATIS 8-14 project, contained ten booklets with resources suggesting activities for teaching science and technology in years three and four of Key Stage Two. Book 5 included five units.

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Box 1, the green box of ASE’s SATIS 8-14 project, contained ten booklets with resources suggesting activities for teaching science and technology in years three and four of Key Stage Two. Book 6 included five units.

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Box 1, the green box of ASE’s SATIS 8-14 project, contained ten booklets with resources suggesting activities for teaching science and technology in Years Three and Four of Key Stage Two. Book 7 included six units.

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Box 1, the green box of ASE’s SATIS 8-14 project, contained ten booklets with resources suggesting activities for teaching science and technology in years three and four of Key Stage Two. Book 8 included six units.

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