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'.

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This collection of resources support the development of mathematical skills in science, providing opportunities for children to use and apply mathematics in a real world context. Provided by Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), resources are:

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This collection highlights resources with a Halloween theme that can be used to look at topics varying from sound, the human body, plant life cycle and coding.  Activities include coding challenges to make a pumpkin decoration flicker and their eyes change colour, or learn more about bats and how they use sound to...

Developed for use in Early Years, these resources link to aspects of physical development, understanding the world and communicating ideas, they also aid vocabulary development and group work. The activities encourage children to try new foods and use their senses to describe them. They also look at hygiene and...

This set of Farming STEMterprise projects take children through all aspects of setting up a farm shop business, through practical science and design and technology lessons for each year group. This includes:

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This activity, aimed at primary level, gives children the opportunity to discuss ways in which food miles and carbon footprint may be reduced. Linked to work on sustainability and improving the environment, children consider how far different types of food have...

These resources offer a series of activities to use alongside the six books which have been shortlisted for the Young People’s Book Prize 2021.The activities include investigations and experiments related to various topics, such as plants, biodiversity and the environment, inventions and inventors, space and the...

This resource looks at the impact of climate change, in particular flooding and drought, and how science can be used to mitigate against it. Students first explore perceptions about climate change, then look at ways to communicate the significance of climate change to different groups of people. They then explore...

Earth Observation (EO) scientists collect information about the Earth – the land, the sea and the atmosphere – using sensors carried on satellites, aircraft, ships, buoys floating on the ocean and thousands of weather stations around the world. There is now a great deal of data available and scientists are finding...

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...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting presentation that enhances the Year 4 science and design technology curriculum by helping Year 4 pupils to understand how dairy products are made and giving the opportunity for them to make their own dairy product. This session is the seventh in a ten session STEM...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting presentation that enhances the lower key stage two maths curriculum by giving Year 4 pupils the opportunity to calculate profit and solve multi-step problems in a real life context. This session is ninth in a ten session STEM project provided by NFU Education.

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...