Learn about the properties of materials in this colourful comic aimed at students in Key Stage Two. Written to promote enquiry skills, it contains a linked investigation which focuses on making careful observations when testing the hardness of materials.

This Core Maths activity gives students selling figures and asks them to calculate VAT, gross and net outcomes, calculate monthly balances and graph their results.

Selling figures: Teacher Guide
This teacher guidance includes suggested warm-ups, a description of each of the activities...

This week we continue to use a fakebot and review the terms ‘algorithm’ (a set of steps, instructions or rules) and ‘debugging’ (fixing an error) as the children learn to create instructions for a programmable device. We make the fakebot travel around shapes and then stars.

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These materials, from the Hamilton Trust, challenge children to identify the differences between series and parallel circuits. They work in small groups to create circuits and switches.

The Midland Mathematical Experiment, in which a number of schools collaborated with the aim of developing a new approach to teaching mathematics in the Grammar School, developed a series of books to cover their ‘A’-level syllabus. Sets, Mappings, Relations and Operations is split into sections, each section...

There are nine units, all at level four, in this book from Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics. Each unit provides information for the student to read and questions and activities for them to do. The units, which are in short sections, have detailed content...

The nine units, all at level five, in this book from the Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics series are:

Area and volume
Angles
Circles
All about boxes
Construction
Common sense measuring...

The level six units, from Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics, in this students’ book cover the topics of:

• Parallel lines
• Three dimensions flattened
• Area of simple shapes
• Quadrilaterals
• Volume
• Enlargements
• Drawing with Logo Circles, perimeter...

This shape, space and measures book at level seven, from the Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics series, was suitable for students following an intermediate GCSE course. It has nine units of work, each with information for students to read and questions and activities to do. The units, which are in short...

A cross-curricular programming activity, using loops in Scratch to draw patterns. Learners first design an algorithm to draw a simple 2D shape, and then use the 'repeat' block to generate artwork. It is advised that children have some prior experience of programming in Scratch. Experimentation and debugging is...

These materials, from the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to consider the appropriate approach when communicating ideas and information to particular audiences. The activities encourage students to: * analyse information and resources for their level of difficulty, the audience, its reliability...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, the resources in this section help students to develop their skills in listening and observing. The area deals with:
• active listening
• guided observing
• summarising and documenting
• critical...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, the resources in this section help students to develop their skills in gathering information by listening and observing.

The materials provide opportunities for...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity requires students to actively read an article, produce a summary and review their learning with a partner.

The activity emphasises the effectiveness of teaching a concept to someone else as a learning tool. It helps students to practice...