These materials, produced by OPAL (Open Air Laboratories), aim to develop an understanding of the importance of pollination in the wider environment. Designed for use in the school grounds or when visiting a wildlife area, they link to the topics of plants and animals in the local environment, life cycles and...

This resource supports the teaching of classification at upper primary and lower secondary level. It contains a series of three lessons, plus two extension lessons and associated PowerPoint presentations and resource sheets. Lessons are:

1. What is...

This is a collection of academic research papers, best practice evidence, case studies of action research in schools, reviews of education research and reports related to educational research in the STEM subjects.

For ease of use, the collection has been divided into three sections:

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This collection contains a series of reports on projects carried out by the wildlife charity Froglife which look at various aspects of biodiversity, habitats and environmental education. They present the findings of the projects and evaluate interactive exhibitions which looked at:

* childhood memories of...

Published in 2012, this review focused on examining which  science programmes had been proven to help primary school students to succeed.  To find out, the University of York’s Institute for Effective Education, Johns Hopkins University and Durham University completed a research review on the topic. The review...

This large collection of mathematics resources was produced by Eigen Publications during the period 1983 – 1987. It was almost exclusively written by Dave Kirkby and Des Wilson who set up Eigen Publications.

The...

This material from Eigen Publications consists of 12 booklets and two sides of a set of cards. These are:

*Flapjack – teachers’ notes and cards (Material for teaching early number)
*Maths Activity in the Early Years 1 Flap Jacks
*Maths Activity in the Early Years 2 Step on It
*Maths...

Aimed at primary level, the twelve activities within this pack explore forces and solids, liquids and gases in the context of a birthday party for Albert Einstein. Designed to demonstrate key ideas and concepts and to spark an interest in science, they could be used in class or within a science week or club. The...

This Nuffield Primary Science Teachers’ Guide for teaching the Electricity and Magnetism topic, to students aged 5-7, is divided into three chapters:

*Chapter 1: Planning - showing how to use the resources to plan a...

A short starter activity for students of all ages. It would make a good introduction to lessons on robotics or artificial intelligence and could spark a discussion on how neural networks might be used to create human-like behaviour. Equally, when discussing HCI design, it might move the debate beyond keyboard and...

This resource supports teachers to make sense of Teacher assessment frameworks at the end of Key Stage 1 and 2. It provides an overview of the primary science curriculum showing how children may progress. The document also breaks down performance descriptors and highlights which topics are covered in each year...

These resources are from the evolving Government agencies that have maintained and developed the National Curriculum and associated assessments, tests and examinations, advising the Secretary of State for Education on these matters.

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...

These resources cover many types of engineering, but the common theme is that they contain activities that pupils could complete to show how engineers solve problems through the application of science and design.

The 'What is engineering?' resource contains a useful presentation 'Engineers don't all wear...