Ideas and resources for STEM activities with a Halloween theme for primary and secondary pupils. Take a look if you dare!

This collection highlights resources with a Halloween theme that can be used to look at topics varying from sound, the human body, plant life cycle and coding.  Activities include coding challenges to make a pumpkin decoration flicker and their eyes change colour, or learn more about bats and how they use sound to...

This collection of resources have been produced by Hamilton Trust to support science in mixed year group classes of Year 3 and 4. They are split into blocks of 6 sessions, each of which can be completed within a half-term. The materials are designed to encourage a practical approach to primary science and includes...

This collection of resources have been produced by Hamilton Trust to support science in mixed year group classes of Year 3 and 4. They are split into blocks of 6 sessions, each of which can be completed within a half-term. The materials are designed to encourage a practical approach to primary science and includes...

The Hamilton Trust has produced a set of planning documents and resources which ensure continuity and progression of mathematics-based skills throughout the primary years one to six. This skills-based curriculum is presented in a series of weekly and termly plans of which this collection contains a sample. The...

The Hamilton Trust has produced a range of resources that aid teachers in delivery of the primary science curriculum. Each of the resources in this collection is a self-contained topic of six lessons. They contain detailed lesson plans, teacher guidance, practical investigations and worksheets. The resources are...

The Hamilton Trust has produced support materials which encourage a practical approach to primary science. These resources for Year Five contain teacher guidance and student worksheets. Each resource has six lessons, with full lesson plans, that cover the topics of:

• Living things and their habitats...

The Hamilton Trust has produced support materials which encourage a practical approach to primary science. These resources for Year Four contain teacher guidance and student worksheets. Each resource has six lessons, with full...

The Hamilton Trust has produced support materials which encourage a practical approach to primary science. These resources for Year Six contain teacher guidance and student worksheets. Each resource has six lessons, with full lesson plans, that cover the topics of: 

• Drugs and bugs
• Further...

The Hamilton Trust has produced support materials which encourage a practical approach to primary science. These resources for Year Three contain teacher guidance and student worksheets. Each resource has six lessons, with full lesson plans, that cover the topics of:

• Forces and magnets - amazing...

Produced by Solar Spark, this activity shows how two metal plates and a person, can make a battery (cell). This helps to demonstrate how a solar photovoltaic cell works.

A solar cell has two electrodes. These have to be connected up to make a circle which we call an electrical circuit. One side is connected...

This hand eye co-ordination activity from Cre8ate maths involves the collection of real data, hypothesis testing and scatter graphs. The extensions may also include the use of a variety of averages. Health professionals often have to assess a wide variety of attributes including hand eye co-ordination. This topic...

Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on handling data and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years.

Each section offers an historical...

This collection of handling data resources, produced by SMILE Mathematics, contains a variety of practical ideas for use in the classroom. Real Data: Statistics for Key Stage Three contains a number of project ideas that require students to collect and represent data to suppport a given hypothesis. Discussing data...

This SMILE collection contains five resources of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching of handling data.

The resources cover analysing and interpreting data, collecting data, displaying data, logic and sets, and probability.

SMILE (Secondary Mathematics...