This Cre8ate maths activity motivates the use of averages, ranges, percentages, bar charts, pie charts, and tables to make comparisons, interpretations and conclusions. The students can perform the "What is in your bowl?" activities to investigate serving amounts and what is eaten for breakfast. The data collection...

In this lesson plan from stats4schools, students are asked to interrogate a dataset of first names. Students will order information chronologically, investigate the meaning of words in the context of names, use primary and secondary data and use research effectively to support an answer or argument.

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Our height changes throughout the day. When we lie down at night, gravity no longer pulls in a direction to make us shorter, so our bodies stretch, and we return to our taller height again. However, astronauts who don’t experience the effect of gravity for months at a time grow taller.

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In this activity children take on the role of Earth observation scientists submitting a request for an image they would like for their research. This gives them the opportunity to consider the possibilities of pictures taken from orbit (and the limitations) and to write scientifically for a specific audience. It...

Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) has created teaching activities based on climate change. Students discover how an invasive species (water hyacinth) has caused eutrophication and destroyed fish stocks. Students are given a series of cards containing information. Working in small groups, they are...

This 30 minute activity encourages pupils to consider who is responsible for ensuring we achieve the Global Goals (also known as the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs).

This document from the Department of Education looks at approaches to managing behaviour throughout the whole school at both a primary and secondary school. As part of the managing behaviour and bullying in schools case studies the resource explores: *Staff response to misbehaviour *'Golden Rules' and tickets *...

Produced by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) this activity aims to encourage students to consider the wider environmental, social and economic implications of shopping. It can be conducted in small groups as an introduction to sustainability.

ARKive worked with the world's best filmmakers, photographers, conservationists and scientists to create a multimedia guide to the world's endangered species. The educational resources produced by ARKive help students to understand concepts of evolution and biodiversity and contain rich images of a wide variety of...

Wildscreen worked with the world's best filmmakers, photographers, conservationists and scientists to create a multimedia guide to the world's endangered species, known as ARKive. The materials in this collection are thus richly illustrated with images from the ARKive project. The ARKive materials help to raise...

From Practical Action, this challenge asks students to design a simple wind turbine capable of lifting a cup off the floor to bench height. The winning team will be the one producing a machine that lifts the most weight. The resource includes an instruction sheet, wind turbine images, links to videos and...

This collection features some excellent female role models to highlight the many career opportunities available, working within the space industry. They include:

• Suzie Imber - Associate Professor of Space Physics
• Abbie Hutty - ExoMars Delivery Manager
• Maggie Aderin-Pocock - Space...