Resources

Increasing concern for the environment and resulting legislation, at national and international levels, confront business and industry with both opportunities and threats. Green Design provides an accessible introduction to the information available on environmentally safe technology.

The book demystifies...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

Green energy: What is the best design for a wind turbine?

This resource provides a set of videos of a practical investigation aimed at supporting working scientifically in the classroom and relating science to real world experiences, presented by Professor Brian Cox and Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock. In this video, Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock joins a teacher to demonstrate a...

Green engineering careers poster: what will houses look like in the future (primary)

An inspiring poster for upper primary school pupils showing how engineers transform the way we design buildings. 

Green engineering careers posters (secondary)

A set of six inspiring green engineering careers posters showing how engineers transform the way we travel, eat, use, power things, build and breathe. Includes suggested discussion points and homework tasks.

Green Fairgrounds

The RA3 project, provided by the Centre for Science Education, aims to bring parents together with their children and teachers to explore the worlds of science, technology, engineering and maths.

This investigation helps to develop an awareness of green power by designing and making a new fairground ride...

Green Genes – DNA Inside Chloroplasts

One of a series of articles for post-16 students published by Science and Plants for Schools (SAPS). Chloroplasts evolved from photosynthetic bacteria and contain DNA encoding a remnant of their original bacterial genes. 

This booklet discusses how the study of chloroplast genes has helped biologists...

An educational comic introducing children to green and sustainable chemistry through the new character Green Kid. Teaming up with their creator Summer, Green Kid must find a way to help tackle the climate crisis and create a more sustainable future.

This comic has been co-created by the University of York...

Green Pathways: BBC Children in Need Peterborough Project Report 2008-2011

This report summarises and evaluates the Green Pathways scheme which ran from 2008 to 2011. Undertaken by the wildlife charity Froglife, it was designed to offer vulnerable and disadvantaged young people between the ages of ten to seventeen the opportunity to participate in innovative conservation projects and...