This well structured resource from the IET provides a quick and efficient way of making craft, recycled Christmas window decorations, whilst learning about the science of adhesives, the physics of positive and negative charges, and even the chemistry of bonding.

This resource can be easily adapted to...

The materials in this National Strategies resource help teaching assistants to develop their role in supporting assessment for learning (AfL) in the classroom by promoting and embedding good practice in partnership with teachers.

Throughout the resource, teaching assistants reflect on and evaluate their role...

This list highlights a number of resources that could be used for by different subject areas for different age groups on World Rivers Day.  The theme of rivers covers a wide range of STEM topics from building bridges, harnessing their energy to generate electricity, to their importance in terms of the provision of...

This session focuses on Year 6 pupils revising and enhancing their understanding of a healthy and nutritious balanced diet. Pupils use the supporting PowerPoint presentation, inspiration from recipe books and the internet to design a range of dishes celebrating their key ingredient. This session gives children the...

This project allows children to set up a farm shop business and design, make and market a new lunchtime food product. It provides a range of opportunities to enhance Year 3 National Curriculum for:

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting resources that help Year 3 pupils to identify and describe the different parts of flowering plants. Children will revise previous plant knowledge and the session gives plenty of opportunities for practical learning and the meaningful application of mathematical...

This resource provides a lesson plan and support PowerPoint presentation that enhances the Year 3 maths curriculum, supporting pupils to calculate with money and give change. Through these resources children will make a non-food product using resources developed in previous sessions and then be introduced to the...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting PowerPoint to help Year 3 pupils to grow herbs from seeds and write a descriptive poem. Children will revise their learning on what plants need to grow and plant their own herb seeds. This session gives children the opportunity to take responsibility for their own...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting resources that help Year 3 pupils to design and conduct a survey and present their data in a pictogram. Through this session children are introduced to the idea of market research as a meaningful context for maths learning. This session is the third in a ten...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting resources that help Year 3 pupils to design a healthy balanced meal and to write instructions. Through these resources children are asked to think about eating healthily and the different food groups that comprise a balanced diet and are supported to create a...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting resources that help Year 3 pupils to design and conduct a fair investigation and to explore the requirements of plants for life and growth. Through these resources, pupils will be supported to design and carry out their own fair tests which will help them to...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting resources that help Year 3 pupils to explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants. Throughout this session children will explore the processes of pollination and fertilisation in flowering plants. After a hands on experience of...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting resources that help Year 3 pupils to understand how water is transported in plants. Throughout the session children will set up a simple observation and are given the opportunity to design a product. The presentation in this session supports an in-depth look at...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting PowerPoint presentation that helps Year 3 pupils to promote a food product and design and make packaging as a part of the English and design technology curriculum. These resources will support children to use their technology skills to design, make and promote...

Year 3 Project Outline- Farming STEMterprise

This resource provides a brief overview of a STEM project which supports Year 3 pupils working in groups to set up a farm shop business, design, make and market and new lunchtime food product. This project provides a range of opportunities to enhance Year 3...