STEM/STEAM

Here you will find lots of great resources to help you teach primary school children about healthy eating and cooking. The free, downloadable materials are designed to support you in delivering lessons about making bread or sandwiches

The Women in Engineering Society have created a primary school book called Suzie & Ricky: The Crash Landing which had its official launch at the Houses of Parliament in 2015. They have recently launched the sequel to this: Suzie & Ricky: The Ripple Effect and the aim is to have a copy of the book in every primary school in the UK.

A careers resource pack for teachers, ambassadors and advisers to use with groups of students.

This resource is also available to order in print, free of charge.

Free resources and information on careers in engineering and science.

It is based upon the quest to discover more about the solar system through space projects such as the European Space Agency’s Aurora programme, and NASA’s Curiosity mission seeking to gather evidence of life on the planet Mars.

The students take on the role of space scientists or space engineers to discover more about Mars. The activities in this resource are designed for students aged 9-12 years.
The activities are organised into three themes: life, landscape and landing. Activities in the life and landscape themes are suitable for students aged 9 to 11.

Two comprehensive PSHE lesson plans for year 5 and 6 pupils with supporting classroom materials, including an accompanying LOUD! Network film with each lesson, plus adaptation guides and materials for year 3 and 4 pupils.

This Humpty Dumpty crime scene activity pack is a great addition to your Humpty Dumpty – or Nursery Rhyme – themed topic.

With this pack you will be able to create the crime scene of Humpty Dumpty for students to investigate and work on, to try to figure out who pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall.

This activity pack contains a variety of extra resources that can be used as add ons to extend your lesson/unit.

Resources and information on the food and drink industry. The site contains information for parents, students and a collection of resources for teachers.

This collection of resources support learning about STEM subjects using the context of exploring Mars. Using the context of the ExoMars mission, activities link to areas of the curriculum including: science, D&T and computing. There are activities focused on children of different ages, ranging from 5-18 years of age.
The ExoMars mission is a collaboration between ESA and the Russian State Space Corporation, Roscosmos. By working together, the ExoMars mission has already put a spacecraft in orbit around Mars – the Trace Gas Orbiter. The second part of the mission, now due to launch in 2022, is sending a high-tech rover to land on Mars. The rover, Rosalind Franklin will be searching for the building blocks of life on Mars. It is the first robot of its kind that can both roam around Mars, and also drill down to study samples two metres below the surface.

Children’s stories provide a great context for learning science. Explore our resource packages based around popular children’s books and discover the science hidden in a book. Resources include book summaries, hints and tips for teaching the science and further stories on a similar theme.

As a teacher at a school or college, you can play a pivotal role in the career development of students.

To help you provide the best possible support to young people, we have put together a selection of resources, programmes and guidance

Three free books which highlight women in engineering, two of them also have a recycling theme which may also link into some of your work.  Each of them have activities to do and they were all created in and around Norton, Stockton on Tees. The WES Lottie Tour takes ‘Lottie’ to many different locations accompanying lots of different engineering friends who show Lottie the work they do in engineering and related careers.
Its primary aim is for Lottie to inspire and encourage young girls (and boys) to think of careers in engineering and STEM subjects to be open to everyone.

About market information (LMI) provides quantitative and qualitative data about the workplace. It may include information about the range of jobs available, salaries and the demand for, and supply of, labour. It also gives you information about skill supply and shortages and the impact of national and global economics on the different job sectors.

In a few short questions students can find out how their skills and passions could lead to an exciting job in engineering.

Free teaching resources and classroom activities for students aged 5-11 years including lesson plans, handouts and film clips.

The Look and Learn Programme is a science-based workshop designed to engage ppils in KS1 and KS2. This aims to teach pupils about eyesight, eye health and eye conditions. All chapters of the workshop are mapped to elements of the English and Scottish KS1/KS2 curriculums. They are designed to last approximately 50 minutes, similar to a standard lesson. This downloadable resource pack includes:

– Label the Eye activity
– Ambassador Guide
– Teacher Guides and video
– Create a Flipbook activity
– Eye Colour Chart
– Look and learn letter
– Word Search
– Make your own glasses activity
– Write in Braille Activity

Developed by Spark Tees Valley on behalf of Tees Valley Education Trust and supported by Sofia, these series of educational resources on these pages provide primary school teachers with fun and interactive ways to educate their students about offshore wind, renewables and to prepare for the North East’s predicted growth as one of the UK’s leading offshore wind energy hubs. The resources are a combination of videos, maps, exercises that can be very standalone so schools can access them and use them independently.

For this resource we have a main video, 7 activity sheets and an interactive game designed to teach KS2 students about the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy, electricity and circuits.

A compete topic split into three parts: skeleton and muscles, digestion, and circulation. Aimed at KS2 students to teach them about the human body and nutrition. There are teachers notes and 5 different worksheets. There is also an amazing interactive game that walks students through all the different parts of the body with moving diagrams, MRI and X-ray videos. Then at the end, they can play two games, one is about how fast you can build a skeleton and the other is a nutrition quiz.

Siemens offers a portfolio of unique and engaging materials and practical activities based on the national curriculum and the ground-breaking projects Siemens is engaged in. Please download, share and enjoy

Siemens is dedicated to enhancing teaching, learning and employability in schools across the UK, with the use of contexts from our work to provide materials that present realistic challenges. Sparking your children’s interest outside of the classroom, we want help you to support their curiosity and prepare them for a technology-led future. Explore the information to find out what opportunities are available and what STEM could mean for your child.

Science – Inspire students with the world and wonder of science and browse resources to support you and your teaching. Science is the key to unlocking a variety of rich and varied career pathways. We’ve put together a selection of video teaching resources to help you bring careers learning to life.

Produced by Rolls-Royce, this toolkit of careers resources helps students to see the connection between STEM subjects studied in school, college or university and future job opportunities.
These materials aim to promote the excitement and value of STEM careers to young people. They help to illustrate how people with science and technology skills can make a real and practical contribution to many of the challenges which the world faces today. A set of case studies look at how Rolls-Royce interacts with and responds to its markets. A set of resources for primary students are also available. These look at the topic areas of forces, keeping healthy and changing state through practical investigations using everyday materials.

Our primary science resource packages provide a useful starting point for teachers in planning and delivering science lessons or in supplementing a teacher’s own planning. Resources are organised into topic area and year group and include many opportunities for working scientifically. They provide tips for teachers, highlight common misconceptions and offer further suggestions for use in class.

A guide to the best resources to support primary mathematics aligned to the English National Curriculum.

An excellent way in to discover careers in sustainability – e.g. a plastics project, flooding prevention. FREE STEM, science, design and technology resources focus on global issues including climate change, energy, food security and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Paper Cup Challenge

The Primary Careers Tool is a database of over 100 STEM careers sorted by National Curriculum topic in Science. By clicking on the topic a selection of careers will be randomly presented.

Each career includes a simple explanation of the job, a link that searches for counter-stereotypical images of that type of STEM worker and three attributes that are needed by people who do that job. It doesn’t take long to put this information into presentation slide that can be used in a science lesson. The slide enables discussions about the career, by asking the children if they could do that career and whether they share any of the attributes. The counter-stereotypical images also let the teacher challenge current stereotypes held in the class.

Using the Primary Careers Tool allows teachers to find out about careers that may be new to them, and introduce those careers simply in their lessons. Over time, children will come to realise that studying science opens up a whole world of possibilities to them.

The Primary Careers Tool is a database of over 100 STEM careers sorted by National Curriculum topic in Maths. By clicking on the topic a selection of careers will be randomly presented.

Each career includes a simple explanation of the job, a link that searches for counter-stereotypical images of that type of STEM worker and three attributes that are needed by people who do that job. It doesn’t take long to put this information into presentation slide that can be used in a science lesson. The slide enables discussions about the career, by asking the children if they could do that career and whether they share any of the attributes. The counter-stereotypical images also let the teacher challenge current stereotypes held in the class.

Using the Primary Careers Tool allows teachers to find out about careers that may be new to them, and introduce those careers simply in their lessons. Over time, children will come to realise that studying science opens up a whole world of possibilities to them.

Welcome to STEM Person of the Week – a STEM engagement activity that’s been shown to reduce children’s stereotypes of science and scientists by providing counter-stereotypical character attributes through a set of diverse STEM role models.

This resource aims to equip teachers with everything they need to effectively run this 5-week intervention in their school setting. The resource is simple to use and suitable for children in years 1 through 6. In fact, we recommend that you run STEM Person of the Week with your whole school; this way, children and teachers can share what they’re learning beyond the classroom and into the playground and staff room.

Here you’ll find:

Links to the resources which you can download and print
Aims, background and research
Guidance for teachers who want to deliver in their school

There are over 350 different careers in the NHS. Many work with patients but there are many that don’t. Not everyone needs a degree either! What they all have in common is that they make a difference to people’s lives everyday.By answering some simple questions, you can now find the careers that best suit you.

This is an exciting resource and competition for KS2, designed to help raise career aspirations, challenge stereotyping and put learning into context for the future.
The KS2 resources allow your pupils to explore a wide range of careers and help them better understand that all NHS careers are open to them, whatever their gender or background. See how our ready-made lesson plans and resources can fit into your schemes of work and introduce meaningful career-related learning to your pupils.

Enter the national competition
The teacher resources are made up of three parts, with the finale being an exciting competition to showcase pupil learning and celebrate the NHS. Your pupils have a chance to win a class prize and Amazon vouchers.

To enter, pupils need to create a piece of artwork to say “thank you” to the NHS and its staff

Free Women in Stem Posters.

Bringing STEM to life through real-world engineering.

Brilliant experiences, inspiring careers resources and stories that showcase modern engineering.

Lower school science, a STEM competition and enterprise projects for upper school.
Science Farm – science lessons for KS1
Stemterprise – real life projects linking farming with STEM
Farmvention – yearly competitions linking farming with STEM

An educational website with activities, resources, and games to teach kids of all ages about Earth’s systems, water cycle, weather and climate. This website has an amazing array of games, activities, lesson plans, and other fabulous resources.

Maths is the key to unlocking a variety of rich and varied career pathways. We’ve put together a selection of teaching resources, videos, posters and information to help you explore how maths can be applied in the real world.

Wizarding World to offer students in the UK an introduction to the myriad of roles and careers available on a film production in this exciting interactive lesson.
Aimed at inspiring students of all ages and introducing them to a range of potential careers within the film industry, this is the perfect opportunity to link curriculum to the world of work and make learning come to life. Taking place inside the iconic Great Hall at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, award winning journalist Mobeen Azhar and BBC Radio 1’s Katie Thistleton will be joined by industry professionals who have worked on the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films, including:

BAFTA and Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood
Graphic designer Miraphora Mina
Visual effects supervisor Christian Manz
The experts will be giving an insight into their careers by answering questions from a live audience as well as questions submitted by schools. The valuable information provided in this interactive lesson will:

introduce students to the world of work and the film industry
investigate the roles on the films and their main responsibilities
highlight the key skills needed for each role and the opportunities that are available.

Loud! is a series of 20 digital, films featuring children (aged 7 – 11) interviewing diverse young professionals (under 30) about their jobs, their challenges and their aspirations, focusing on STEM & the Creative Industries.

They are authentic and naturally engaging films, presented with clarity and great power, introducing young learners to work, enabling a discovery of different jobs set in real-life workplaces.

From a Camera Operator to a Social Media Producer, from an Astrophysicist to a Formula 1 Race Analyst, from a Lego Designer to a Game Developer, each individual film links back to the classroom, supporting core curriculum learning and importantly, the future skills needed for each job. Created for a digitally savvy audience, the films have editorial integrity and key learning and are packaged up in an exciting, bright and bold way, complimented by punchy music and fun graphics.
All the films are supported by classroom learning packs; teacher notes and versatile learner’s activity sheets (Discover and Do) that can be used to support CRL directly or within the curriculum. The Loud! Network films are a collection of credible films designed for flexible use in the classroom to illuminate and inspire young learners.

Discover session packs to help improve the financial capability skills and wellbeing of young people, carefully designed to suit their target age group. Topics come with a variety of support materials. Each session pack includes the resources needed to run an engaging one-to-one or group session and includes advice for running sessions virtually.

If you are a teacher wanting something fun and rewarding to inspire your students, or a parent looking for a creative activity for a rainy day – Little Inventors has everything you need to embrace the spirit of imagination and support your students in coming up with marvellous, ingenious and bonkers invention ideas.

New inventive challenges posted each week

This resource has been developed to support the delivery of a STEM competition within your school. It is designed to run alongside normal classroom learning and can be used accordingly to suit individual school’s topics, values and timeframes.

A monthly competition for children to design an invention. The winners are made and filmed by the YouTube channel, with sponsors such as The Hilton for design your own hotel room.

Invite a STEM ambassador into your school and hear first-hand how rewarding a career in engineering can be. STEM Ambassadors are an important and exciting free of charge resource for teachers and others engaging with young people inside and out of the classroom.We have made it simple to get involved. Once you have registered, you can find a STEM Ambassador or get involved in an activity from your dashboard.

IMechE’s library of online STEM activities, which can be done at home or in a school environment, encourage children to take part in fun, educational activities. Downloadable worksheets for each activity and ‘how-to’ videos can be found below.

Free lesson plans on Biomechanical Engineering – a project to build a prosthetic arm.

We’re all spending a lot more time at home, with this in mind, we’ve put together some fun activities to help you keep your young children entertained.
Every week you will find something new and interesting to share with your family! Together, you will be able to learn more about the Great North Air Ambulance Service and the important life-saving service we provide in your area.Explore a wide range of activities from arts and crafts, educational talks, and exclusive live base visits with our paramedic Jamie, all whilst in the comfort of your own home!

What Career in Science could be for you?

Enhance your science teaching and get your kids thinking like scientists. Good quality primary lesson plans, science challenges and experiments, prompts for discussion

This collection of short animations introduce us to Paxi, the alien explorer and European Space Agency mascot. Paxi introduces himself, then explores the Solar System, investigates comets and looks at how scientists aim to find out if there is evidence for life on Mars. These animations are a great introduction to learning about space and ESA missions in a way that is accessible to children.

This collection of practical activities, investigations and games is all based on current lunar research. It supports many aspects of working scientifically and links to area of the curriculum including: earth and space, light and shadows, forces, materials, changes of state and rocks and soils. Activities are provided for children of different ages and have clear curricular and career links and opportunities developing problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity. They can be used individually using a mission to the moon as a context for science learning, or as part of a STEM club or science week.
This resource has been provided by ESERO-UK.

These resources provide fun and insightful activities, information, videos and worksheets aimed at Under 11’s on the world of aerospace.

We’ve put together a selection of teaching resources, videos, posters and information to help you explore careers linked to design and technology.

The Mars Diary aims to engage students in science by teaching them about real-life STEM projects that are exploring ways to get humans to Mars – in particular, the UK’s human and robotics exploration . you can download over 60 FREE creative, cross-curricular science lessons along with differentiated teaching notes, lesson plan templates, PowerPoint presentations, videos with real astronauts and space experts, and much more! No registration required, but if you do register you can bookmark your favourite activities, be the first to hear about our free book giveaways and access exclusive conten

We’ve put together a selection of teaching resources, videos, posters and information to help you explore careers linked to computing.

CIEC provides a range of curriculum-linked teaching resources for the teaching and learning of the science curriculum.

The resources provide teachers’ notes, presentations and teaching tools, as well as interactive tasks that children can access with teacher guidance.

The activities in this resource tell a simple story of oil, beginning with its recovery from beneath the sea bed, to its use as a lubricant and fuel. Activities include building a model oil rig, sorting hard and soft materials, exploring the runniness of oil and carrying out a ‘squeak hunt’ to locate joints in need of lubrication. The resource contains colour photographs which depict various aspects of oil recovery and transportation.

This pack takes an in-depth look at how stories and poems can form the stimulus for a wide range of science and technology activities. Using three books, Princess Smartypants, Grandfather’s Pencil and the Room of Stories and Out and About, this resource focuses on science investigations, cross-curricular themes and science linked with structured play.

This package provides an opportunity for the children to investigate a variety of ‘mixtures’ and the means by which they are best separated.

The activities are put in context using a storybook, in which two sisters are presented with tubs of mixed objects to sort out. One of the sisters always wants to find the easiest way to sort the objects, and the other sister begins to use the same approach.

The activities are based on the development of a new cough syrup. Children work to identify the best conditions for growing micro-organisms to produce the active ingredient in the medicine, the best way to collect it, and the ideal consistency for the syrup. Economic and commercial factors are also considered.

Wind generators, circuit construction, problem-solving and electrical safety – everything required for teaching the electricity topic at Key Stage 2 is included in this investigation-based activity pack.

Our flagship programme bringing the world of industry direct to your classrooms. Includes fully resourced lessons, virtual site visits, interactions with STEM ambassadors and CPD for your teaching staff.

Keep up to date with regular updates from the CIEC team showcasing their resources in action and highlighting current trends in the world of primary STEM via the blog.

Started during lockdown to support home learning – excellent for developing Science Capital through home links.

This collection of resources provides ideas for different careers events that explore the construction sector.

What do you imagine when you’re asked what a scientist looks like? Are you picturing lab coats, goggles and conical flasks? How about the person? Are they a White man with grey hair, who resembles Albert Einstein?

If that’s who you pictured – you aren’t alone. But it’s something that we want to change!
For inspiration, we’ve collected stories from individuals and teams that we hope will spark a change in perceptions of people and careers in STEM. You can find more about them via the links.

BBC Teach is partnering with the Wizarding World to offer students in the UK an introduction to the myriad of roles and careers available on a film production in this exciting interactive lesson.

Aimed at inspiring students of all ages and introducing them to a range of potential careers within the film industry, this is the perfect opportunity to link curriculum to the world of work and make learning come to life.

Taking place inside the iconic Great Hall at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, award winning journalist Mobeen Azhar and BBC Radio 1’s Katie Thistleton will be joined by industry professionals who have worked on the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films, including:

BAFTA and Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood
Graphic designer Miraphora Mina
Visual effects supervisor Christian Manz
The experts will be giving an insight into their careers by answering questions from a live audience as well as questions submitted by schools. The valuable information provided in this interactive lesson will:

• Introduce students to the world of work and the film industry
• Investigate the roles on the films and their main responsibilities
• Highlight the key skills needed for each role and the opportunities that are available.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to make an animated blockbuster movie?

We got a chance to catch up with some of the team behind Walt Disney Animation Studios’ latest epic adventure, Raya and the Last Dragon, released on Disney+, to get their advice on how you can take your first steps into the film industry.

Production Guides

Here are some handy guides to help you with film production. This includes:

A guide to filmmaking
Top tips in filmmaking
Tips on how to be a camera operator
How to film behind the scenes
How to create and shoot scripts
How to be a producer

A series of short films designed to inspire creativity in your classroom.

‘Get Creative’ includes four short films for art and design classes and four short films for use during creative writing classes, exploring creativity in real world situations to emphasize the importance of creativity

Run a Stemillions club to introduce primary school students to new female STEM role models and show them how fun STEM is. Schools running the programme will receive a fully-funded box containing 10 Meal Plans each based around a different woman in STEM and a choice of activities related to her STEM career. Run as an extra curricula 30-minute activity, or incorporate the activities and role models into lesson plans with our teachers notes. You can register to receive a free box of 10 activities based around 10 female STEM role models. We will also provide the equipment needed to run these clubs, certificates and backpacks for each member. These boxes are worth £750 each.

Students must be aged 4-11 to be eligible for these clubs.