This challenge provides a STEM activity day in which teams of children work together to design an aeroplane and then construct a transporter to move it to the next stage of...

Produced by Twig, this animated video looks at evidence for the Big Bang Theory.

This includes descriptions of:

• Hubble's observation of a red...

In this lesson, students learn about the specialised cells of the heart and the tissues they form. They find out what can happen to the function of the heart if, as the result of an inherited condition, the cells are not arranged properly. The lesson begins with a video...

This is a problem solving lesson, designed to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Interpret and use scale drawings
• Use proportional reasoning
• Work with metric units

The initial problem is to construct and conversion graph to convert between measurements in the...

These resources consist of lesson plans, worksheets, Minecraft Maps (Raspberry Pi version) for the area around the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, and some general how to guides. The guides take teachers through the steps to update a Raspberry Pi, and install one of the Giant's Causeway maps into the correct...

In this project students carry out some research about how sails ‘work’ - what are the aerodynamic principles of a sail, and what...

This Bowland assessment task takes students back to the American ‘gold rush’ of the 19th century. Prospectors can rent an area of land. Each explorer is given four pegs and a 100m length of rope and can make a rectangle shape of whatever dimensions they choose. Students explore what is the maximum area they can...

The activities in this book from Polygon Resources focus on number and encourage students to develop and refine their own methods of calculation, and offer opportunities for practice of arithmetic skills.

Counter Grid is an investigation into the different totals that can be made by addition...

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), focuses on understanding that changing the composition of a material will affect its properties and characteristics.

It is intended that...

These materials, from the Microbiology Society look at the work of Louis Pasteur and helps students to understand the growth of yeast. There are three resources that can be used together or separately and are suitable for Key Stage Two or Three students.

Marvellous microbes This comic strip...

This activity is provided by ASE and describes a novel way to conduct a number of chemistry experiments on a small scale with clearly visible results and needing a minimum of equipment.

The resource contains...