Inspired by the theme of the Victorians, this activity supports the teaching of design and technology in context by investigating the key inventions made during the Victorian era, and how they have influenced engineering today.

In this classroom activity pupils will learn about the Victorian era and the...

Through this challenge, pupils will have the opportunity to explore and understand the everyday life of the Victorians. Pupils will have the opportunity to identify potential problems/areas of Victorian life where an invention could be useful and to use drawing, writing and speech to communicate their invention to...

Astronauts have been taking photographs of the Earth from space for over 50 years and Earth observation ...

These resources from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, produced in association with Fairfield Control Systems, explore the theme of waterways.

In this ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource, prominent engineers talk about what excites and inspires them in their work.

The resource consists of:

*Colour photographs of prominent male and female engineers, which can be printed out in colour or black and white.
*A short paragraph on what...

In this floating boat challenge, students are to build a boat that can float and support 25 pennies for at least 10 seconds —without leaking, sinking, or tipping over. Each team has access to some plastic wrap, plastic straws, paper cups, duct...

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 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 Engineering Day was started by UNESCO to celebrate engineers and engineering, and improve public understanding of how engineering and technology are central to modern life and for sustainable development.

This collection of resources brings together videos and activities, for primary and secondary aged...

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...

These resources have been created for Year 3 pupils in line with the LKS2 science, maths, computing, art and design technology curriculum.

This series of practical STEAM activities have been produced by Rolls Royce for Year 3 pupils. Within the collection there is an art and design, engineering, maths, science and technology activity which can be used to enhance existing pupil knowledge or to teach a key area of the LKS2 Science, Maths, Design...

These resources have been created for Year 4 pupils in line with the LKS2 science, maths, computing, art and design technology curriculum.