This high-interest series looks at familiar machines and uses exciting illustrations to explore what can go wrong with them, to give a new slant on how things work. Cartoon-style illustrations will...

This book looks at familiar machines and uses exciting illustrations to explore what can go wrong with them, to give a new slant on how things work. Cartoon-style illustrations will appeal to readers...

Produced by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) this activity aims to encourage students to consider the wider environmental, social and economic implications of shopping. It can be conducted in small groups as an introduction to sustainability.

This book presents the examination of the technology of nature which is illustrated throughout with close up photographs. The text aims to stimulate the reader to take a fresh look at plants and animals.

One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which children design and make a moving picture that tells a nursery rhyme or a simple story.

This task asks children to work in small groups, and each group will make a pop-up book that will intrigue, amuse and inform...

One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children can design and make a decorated paper party hat to wear at a party they have helped to organise.

The party can be held to...

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 text provides 20 unique projects for youth that use, adapt and illustrate the power of the wind. Artist Clive Dobson provides a basic scientific understanding of wind power and the ways in which it can be...

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...

Describes how wood...

This sturdy wooden model is made from pre-cut plywood sheets that come ready to assemble. Each...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

This set of resources provide a series of four activities based around teaching of materials, including: properties of materials, insulation, waterproofing, natural and man-made materials. Designed to make children think about the day to day issues faced by farmers, these activities include:

• Exploring...

Linked to Farmvention, produced by the National Farmers Union (NFU), this resource provides a series of four activities based around teaching of materials, including: properties of materials, insulation, waterproofing, natural and man-made materials. Designed to make children think about the day to day issues faced...

Produced in the Welsh Language, this resource is linked to Farmvention, produced by the National Farmers Union (NFU). This resource provides a series of four activities based around teaching of materials, including: properties of materials, insulation, waterproofing, natural and man-made materials. Designed to make...