Activities are posts made by educators to share a volunteering opportunity and request support from STEM Ambassadors. This guide explains the process of advertising an activity for your school.

Offers are posts made by STEM Ambassadors detailing how they can support your setting. This guide explains the process of utilising offers to request support from STEM Ambassadors for your community or non-school group.

Offers are posts made by STEM Ambassadors detailing how they can support your setting. This guide explains the process of utilising offers to request support from STEM Ambassadors for your school. 

This guide has been written to support teachers and technicians who would like to build a combat robot. It describes:

• a range of different types of robots that you could make, discussing armour, weaponry, drive and control.
• advice for the design process
• health and safety...

This resource focusses on understanding density and, through a series of practical tests, working out which materials are low and high density. In this activity learners will learn about the density of materials through testing. Learners will have an opportunity to weigh and work out the volume of an object. They...

Offers are posts made by STEM Ambassadors detailing how they can support your setting. This process explains the next steps after you have found an offer you are interested in.

Dallas Campbell describes a way of making a paper aeroplane that will be a good long distance flyer. You can follow the video and also use the...

This resource uses Fusion 360 to design and model a keyring stand for a smart phone. Students use simple sketching tools to either create their own design, or use the sample tutorial provided.

This practical activity challenges students to design and engineer a roof structure that will span an area of 500mm x 300mm with specific constraints on the materials and construction methods used. They also identify which pieces (members) of the structure are in...

This resource supports students to create a way of squeezing toothpaste out of a traditional toothpaste tube. Students are presented with the challenge, measure different sizes of tooth paste tubes and design a product based upon the example shown. A tutorial to create an example product is provided using Fusion...

This is one of a set of resources developed to support the teaching of the primary national curriculum. They are designed to support the delivery of key topics within design and technology and maths. This resource focusses on drawing a plan view of a classroom.

Different types of drawing are used to...

This research was Published in 2014 and presented at the ESERO 2013 Conference.

The purpose of any teacher continuing professional development (CPD) is to ensure a positive change in pupils’ outcomes, yet the evaluative evidence to support this relationship is often weak or missing. Using the CPD programme...

In this resource from the IET, children use a net to make their own Christmas crackers and hats. The resource also includes a word challenge and spot the difference activity.

This resource encourages pupils to make a card model of a car body from a net. Pupils will learn about nets, wheels and axles. They will combine these technologies to make the base and body for a vehicle made from card. This activity introduces and builds on knowledge of nets to make a complex three-dimensional...

Having a celebration? Use these handy guides and templates to bring design and technology skills in to your classroom, adding a touch of skill to your crown making. Suitable for four to eleven year olds, the template is easily adaptable for all head shapes and sizes. Use the templates provided to cut out, spend...