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Engineering Elegance - Awards
Kate Bellingham set a challenge for design and technology students to design a dress using e-textiles, to wear as she hosts a prestigious awards ceremony at the Globe Theatre in London. This Teachers TV video shows the final stage of the competition.
The winning design, by A-level product design student...
Engineering Elegance - Design
In this Teachers TV video, presenter and teacher Kate Bellingham sets a design challenge to Key Stage Four and Key Stage Five design and technology students. The brief is to design a dress using e-textiles to be worn by Kate as she hosts the British Engineering Excellence Awards.
Kate is joined by a panel...
Engineering elegance - manufacturing
Kate Bellingham set a challenge for design and technology students to design a dress using e-textiles, to wear as she hosts a prestigious...
Engineering enables
The development of running blades has greatly enhanced the running ability of amputees and people born without legs. In this activity students learn more about how the inventor of running blades applied the scientific concept of potential elastic energy and biomimicry to design a high performance prosthetic leg....
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This collection provides several engineering or D&T activities that are set in the context of popular Fairy Tales. Each activity finds a problem that a character in the story has and asks children to come up with an engineering solution for the problem. Children then work together in teams to design and make...
Now you can discover the answers to these and many other fascinating questions about engineering for yourself with this fun–filled resource. Engineering for Every Kid presents entertaining, challenging experiments and activities to help you understand the different types of engineering there are including...
Engineering for families
Engineering for families is a 6-week structured course for children aged 7 - 11 and their families. It is designed to be used in an afterschool club led by teachers or other adults. Each week focuses on a career within a different discipline of engineering, with a final engineering challenge week.
Engineering in a pandemic
This resource explores the vital role engineers play in responding to a global pandemic. It is designed to provide practical and contextualised tasks that demonstrate the role that STEM-based learning plays in real-world engineering scenarios.
Challenges in this STEM resource include:
- building...