Resources

Building a High-quality Renewables Training Centre

Produced by the Learning Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), this case study tackles the themes of new industry, new jobs and STEM skills for the future. It describes how Able Skills Ltd, built a renewables training facility to meet the need for installation and maintainance skills in the emerging renewable...

This gadget contains activities using Lego to illustrate a range of particle interactions.

An internationally renowned chemist, popular television personality, and bestselling author, Hervé This heads the first laboratory devoted to molecular...

Building a Picture of What Children Can Do

This resource from the National Assessment Agency (NAA) came into being as a result of the changes in the statutory assessment of children at the end of Key Stage One in 2005. A key aim of the changes to the assessment arrangements was to emphasise the importance of...

Each book in this series contains photographs showing machines at work in different places. Simple illustrations pick out the special tools machines have to do their jobs.

Building a Superstore

This Problem Solving with Industry module was devised by the Centre for Science Education in collaboration with Hadfield, Cawkwell, Davidson and Partners. In this module students, working in teams, are asked to come up with plans for a new DIY superstore.

Building a telescope

A classroom activity where students make a simple telescope (using lenses and cardboard tubes)  that uses two different types of lens to magnify distant objects, and then find out how it works.

Building a Town

In Building a town, from Cre8ate maths, students are encouraged to consider the mathematical shapes which form the net of a building. Some simple models are shown and students could use these to construct their nets, before building the models themselves.

Building a White Water Canoe Course

This Catalyst article explores the processes undertaken during the construction of a white water canoe course for the Olympic Games which requires a huge range of practical skills, but also great science skills too. The scientist must calculate how much noise from both the course's construction and its use during...

Building an astronaut's core

Perform "Commander Crunches" (sit-ups) for one minute. Perform "Pilot Planks" (planks). Take one leg and extend to the side. Hold your ...