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Everyone is interested in being more self-sufficient these days, and why should children miss out on the fun? This book marries the themes of play and creativity with eco-awareness.

Eco Tourism

These Cre8ate maths activities involve complex analysis of information, a variety of calculations and the need to handle mixture of units, moving between grams, kilograms and tonnes. These activities are designed to give pupils an insight into the relative cost to the environment of travel and to highlight ways in...

Eco-design web

The Eco-design web is a useful tool to help students’ analyse an existing product or design. It can also be used to indicate areas of the product that can be redesigned to improve its environmental sustainability.

Eco-indicator

The environmental impact of a product throughout the different stages of its lifecycle are quantified in this activity. Data from the Eco-indicator 99 Manual for Designers is required for the final evaluation task.

Eco-Stories: Cinderella and Three Little Eco-pigs

From the National Non-Food Crops Centre (NNFCC), this resource contains two traditional fairy tales that have been given an environmental twist. Cinderella must go to the ball with the smallest carbon footprint she can and the Three Little Pigs choose different materials to build their houses: concrete, wood and...

Ecofilm

This short film from the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP) is one of a series of clips which were produced to demonstrate the properties and use of a range of smart materials.

This thick plastic film disappears almost instantly when it gets wet. Its uses in project work include simple water-activated...

Ecofootprints

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

In this activity, families investigate the impacts they have on the environment and consider their ecological footprint....

This booklet is an introduction to Ecological Energetics(production biology) and to indicate the general principles on which the subject is based.

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.

Ecologist

Amy is an ecologist working with the Forestry Commission. Amy is very frank in the video about her school history, describing her school reports as "less than shiny", and the video conveys how applied scientific research focuses her naturally curious nature.

In the video Amy describes how she writes computer...