In this activity students take on the role of an adult in the Australian Outback who whilst out horse riding finds a female kangaroo that has just been killed on the road by a passing truck. Her joey is still alive in her pouch. Through video clips, photographs and data, students become familiar with a range of...

This resource contains lists of vocabulary, loop cards and word mats to help develop an understanding of key scientific words at primary level.

The twelve vocabulary lists cover the topics of: materials and their...

This is a short session looking at the structure of pixels in a digital image. It will help you understand how the number of bits used per pixel determines the number of colours that are available.

1. Open the Information document and read through the information about digital images. Look at how using...

The first video outlines the purpose of systems software: the operating system and utilities.  It consider the role of systems software in providing a user interface and abstraction to the physical hardware.  A variety of different types of user interface are explained in more detail.

The second video...

This resource from the European Space Agency climate change resource pack provides information gathered from the electromagnetic spectrum which is used to monitor and measure changes in the Earth’s climate system. Resources focus upon how satellite instruments orbiting the Earth detect data from the visible light,...

This resource is designed as a resource bank of questions to supplement the teaching element of the lesson. The questions require students to use Pythagoras' theorem in order to find whether a triangle is right angled and find the lengths of missing sides, and problems on 2D and 3D shapes.

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This resource requires children to imagine the world without any light. Drawing from nature for ideas and inspiration, they design ‘stick people’ with special features and powers to live in a world of darkness. The lesson is best done in a woodland or...

This is a problem solving lesson that is designed to help students to:

• Understand the connection between relative frequency and probability
• Gain experience of designing and carrying out a probability experiment
• Calculate a theoretical probability for a practical scenario

This resource aimed at lower primary children, supports learning about number, place value and mental addition. The two detailed weekly plans contain differentiated activities, guided and independent tasks and the resources required for each lesson. Objectives covered in the lessons include:

Week One...

This STEMNET Activity case study describes how Transportation Planner Dan Cornelius developed projects for a school to demonstrate maths in the workplace. In his traffic assignment exercise, children investigated traffic flow, identified potential problems and came up with solutions within a budget.

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Architect’s skills, from Cre8ate maths, will develop the process skills involved in understanding and making sense of mathematical information. Students have to give unambiguous descriptions to enable their partner to build an identical copy of a hidden shape, whilst the partner has to listen and interpret the...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 7. This resource covers: shading fractions on a grid, equivalent fractions, fractions of quantaties, mixed numbers and improper fractions. The initial file forms part of the textbook. The...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 7. This resource covers: multiplication of whole numbers, long multiplication, Napiers bones, Russian multiplication, box method, multiplying with decimals and problems involving...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 7. This resource covers, place value, rounding to the nearest 10,100,1000 and rounding to decimal places. The initial file forms part of the textbook. The activities sheet, extra exercises...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 7. This resource covers: arithmetic with whole numbers and solving problems using arithmetic. The initial file forms part of the textbook. The activities sheet, extra exercises and mental...