This is one of a series of extended units, from the Association for Science Education and the Design and Technology Association, to provide in-depth coverage of a topic or an area of the curriculum. Through work on this unit, students learn about the potential for using renewable energy resources from small (local...

Written by the IET, this creative resource allows children to explore the theme of Diwali, whilst applying a range of skills. Lots of people across the world celebrate Diwali, which is known as the festival of lights. Can you make a diya lamp for use during the celebrations? Traditionally made from clay or mud,...

This activity aims to engage learners because of its connection to everyday life and the mathematical ideas of measurement and ratio underpin work in vocational areas such as Hairdressing when mixing hair dye and Construction when mixing concrete. This activity requires students to understand and use common...

Four activity sheets produced by the Institute of Physics (IOP), to accompany the MODEL Project's Making a Spectacle video. Worksheet one takes an overview of the topic. Worksheets two - four are targeted at specific sections of the video. Answers to all the worksheet questions are provided in the Word document....

Six practicals produced by the Institute of Physics (IOP) that help students to understand the electromagnetic spectrum and about materials used in making spectacles.

In addition to the guidance included for specific activities, please refer to the generic health and safety information before commencing any...

This booklet, the Mathematics Centre at the University of Chichester, is about beginnings. Here teachers and students are tackling unfamiliar interactions as the students are playing games, investigating, discussing and problem solving. The contributing teachers all met...

This Ofsted document describes how the Sixth Form College Farnborough has re-introduced A-level human biology while ensuring that students are well aware of course requirements and are properly prepared for a challenging assessment regime. Providing good information about the course, a highly structured programme...

In this classroom activity learners will use the inspiration from a well-known book to make a mask representing one of the main characters.

This teaching resource could be used as a main lesson activity, to support pupils’ engagement in literacy. It could also be used as a focussed task to teach pupils about...

In this project learners will learn about the movement of the bones in the human body. They will then make their own dancing skeleton from card. Finally, they will test their skeleton and observe how it works.

This activity could be used as a main lesson activity to teach learners about human anatomy. It...

In this unit pupils will investigate how a submarine descends and ascends through making a Cartesian diver.When you put the diver (pen top, paper clip and...

One of a series of resources from the IET that uses the theme of the lunar new year to develop pupils knowledge and skills in design and technology. In this activity children will learn about cutting and folding simple 3D structures to ...

Inspired by the theme of the Victorians, this activity supports the teaching of design and technology in context by making a pinhole camera based on early Victorian photography technology.

In this classroom project learners will learn about early camera obscuras developed during the Victorian era. They will...

One of a set of resources from the IET that uses the theme of the Chinese and Lunar New Year to help pupils develop their knowledge and skills in design and technology, and engineering...

This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered:
* The conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy.
* The construction and operation of electrochemical cells.
* The conversion of electrical energy to...

Inspired by the Born to Engineer video from Dr Eleanor Stride, an engineer who is developing a treatment for cancer that encloses cancer-treating drugs in bubbles, this resource supports students to increase their understanding of engineering in a food science context,...