- GCHQ Christmas Quiz
Break codes like a spy! GCHQ is setting a special Christmas Challenge on Thursday 14 December, and they are keen to get secondary schools and colleges across the country involved.
Read more - Planet Possibility
Planet Possibility is a project funded by the IOP Challenge Fund and is intended to attract young people from under-represented groups to careers in physics in the UK. It has now launched its full digital platform.
Read more - RSC Education Prizes
The RSC Excellence in Education Prizes and Horizon Prizes recognise achievements in primary science through to higher chemistry education. You can nominate an individual, team or collaboration, including teachers, technicians, teaching assistants, professors and education researchers. Anyone can submit a nomination.
Read more - UKROC Competition
UK Roc is a competition for young people aged 11-18 from any secondary schools, colleges, educational facilities or youth groups to design, build and launch a model rocket, ensuring its fragile cargo (a raw egg!) is safely delivered back to the ground without breaking. The deadline for teams to enter is February 2024 with regional events planned across the UK in April 2024
Read more - Royal Society of Chemistry Teacher PD
The Royal Society of Chemistry provides a CPD programme that supports a holistic approach to professional development. The CPD offer includes a wide range of opportunities to suit individual teachers’ needs. We offer PD for primary and secondary teachers:
Read more - Education in Chemistry
Education in Chemistry (EiC) is an online and print magazine that features ideas, teaching guides and resources. It provides valuable support to chemistry and science teachers working at all levels.
Read more - Royal Society of Chemistry resources
The Royal Society of Chemistry offer a wealth of support for teaching primary, secondary and higher education students. Thousands of free teaching resources – featuring everything from practical experiments and simulations to tutorials, quizzes, games and videos.
Read more - Teach Chemistry
Brought to you by the Royal Society for Chemistry, Teach Chemistry provides support including events, resources and discounts for teachers and technicians in secondary schools, colleges and teacher training institutions in the UK and Ireland.
Read more - Royal Institution Lectures
You're in for a treat this week at the Ri! We've got four fascinating talks coming up in our Theatre and at home. Our expert speakers are ready to take you on a journey of discovery, with talks covering the science of the brain, mathematics, plastics and the impact of living amongst deadly predators.
Read more - ABPI resources gain the ASE Green Tick
ABPI resources predominantly cover aspects of the biological sciences, in accessible and interactive ways, and the ASE team highlighted that of particular value are the explanation and applications of newer technologies within this curriculum area.
Read more - UK Space Agency resources
These include lesson plans for teachers, other resources for the classroom as well as exercises and activities for home learning for both children and adults. Visit the gov.uk website to arrange a school visit, classroom resources and much more!
Read more - Curious about...
Welcome to Glasgow Science Centre’s 'Curious About' Festival. Live events in Science Week for chidren aged 8 to 16. Get ready to take a closer look at science and technology through interviews and insights, activities and resources, photo galleries and art exhibitions.
Read more - Farmvention
Focusing on how engineers and farmers collaborate to feed the nation, the NFU Education team has teamed up with the University of Manchester’s SEERIH (Science and Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub) to create this inspiring new challenge.
Read more - Millgate
MHE & ASE Publications is a new publishing venture born from the merger of Millgate House Education and The Association for Science Education.
Read more - e-Bug
e-Bug resources support students to learn about microbes, infection prebvention and control, antibiotics and vaccination. There are free National Currciulum mapped lesson plans available to download from the e-Bug website.
Read more - Century Tech
To celebrate being awarded a Green Tick for our secondary science content, we are offering all ASE members free access to our award-winning teaching and learning tool for the rest of this academic year.
Read more - Anytime, Anywhere Engineers
‘Anytime Anywhere Engineers’ is a new and innovative project funded by the Royal Academy Of Engineering and delivered by hi-impact & NFU Education to engage young people with the wonderful world of engineering. With a focus on agricultural engineering, participants will have the opportunity to meet some of the most innovative and amazing engineers in their field.
Read more - Farmers for Schools
Farmers for Schools gives students access to voices from modern farming and invites your students to an open conversation about agriculture in the UK. We are offering you the opportunity to have two engaging, enthusiastic speakers visit your school to spark discussion and debate as part of an engaging, interactive assembly or group discussion.
Read more - Climate Superheroes
The Farmvention: Climate Superheroes challenge is all about the problems that climate change creates for British farmers and how they are fighting it to become Climate Superheroes. Explore our themed inspiration hubs to get you thinking. Each one is full of investigations to complete at home or school
Read more - Take charge - Global battery experiment
Taking part in our global battery experiment will help you to understand how batteries work and their huge potential as a tool in the transition to more sustainable sources of energy. And it might inspire you to study further and even pursue a career as a scientist working towards a brighter energy future. The global battery experiment will run throughout 2022, so you can take part and share your results at any time this year.
Read more - Gratnells Featured Products
Take a look at Gratnells featured products to what's new in the world of staorage!
Read more - Meet our people: Lucy
Meet Lucy, UK STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education and Charitable Partnerships Manager at GSK, and how she found her passion for powering the next generation of innovators.
Read more - Meet our people: Emily
Meet Emily, a Mechanical Engineering Associate on the Future Leaders Programme. Read about her 3 year progarmme with GSK and the three roles she undertakes during the programme.she
Read more - Meet our people: Leonora
read about Leonora, Associate Clinical Development Manager, involved in the testing of new medication in human clinical trial. Leonora works on the study team in a study management role, ensuring the trial is conducted ethically and safely.
Read more - Meet our people: Oyiza
Oyiza is a Clinical Data Manager at GSK within Global Clinical & Data Operations in Pharmaceutical Research & Development (R&D). She manages data on clinical trials around the world. Read more about her career.
Read more - Meet our people: Megan
An interview with Megan Bell, an Emerging Technology Manager at the GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development Department
Read more - GSK Virtual Work Experience: Benji’s story
Back in June 2021, Year 10 student Benji Lewis took part in a week-long virtual work experience programme at GSK As part of the online programme, Benji had insight into different roles at GSK and learnt how his school subjects are relevant to the word of work.
Read more - What I do in 30 seconds
Curious to know what an engineering apprentice at GSK does? Find out from our colleague Alexandra who works in a department that standardises the manufacture of Ellipta inhalers used to treat COPD and asthma.
Read more - GSK: Discover a career with a purpose
As a science-led global healthcare company, there are jobs in a company like ours across a variety of areas, many of them within science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). We have several early career programmes that allow young people to learn on the job, while getting an education and discovering the right job or next step for them. Get to know a few of our employees here and find out more about some ways into GSK.
Read more - GSK: We're not all scientists
Meet a few people who work at GSK in jobs you may know less about and find out more about the sorts of skills they use. There are so many many roles in a company like ours in different areas of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
Read more - GSK Educator Support
Find out how the free curriculum-linked GSK resources can ignite your students' imaginations. Download the GSK module navigation guide, innovation challenge guidance and STEM Capital guide!,
Read more - Reaction game
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! Challenge them with this fun online game which puts their mental arithmetic and quick fingers to the test.
Read more - Running an innovation challenge session
Encourage creative thinking and cement links between classroom learning and the real world by combining GSK STEM activities and running an innovation challenge session.
Read more - What is STEM Capital?
Find out more about the theory of science and STEM capital, and how it underpins the GSK STEM Education programme.
Read more - GSK STEM Education: Module navigation guide
Use our interactive toolkit to find out what content is available for each subject area.
Read more - How we breathe
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! This activity introduces gas exchange systems by looking at the basics of how we breathe and the factors that can affect it, for example: allergies, smoking and exercise.
Read more - Forces at work: Bounce
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! Use this activity to reinforce learning about the forces that act on objects as they move through air and water, and as they bounce.
Read more - Dust and breathing
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! Use this activity to introduce them to gas exchange systems and what can affect them, from smoking to exercise, asthma and allergies.
Read more - Forces at work: Drag and lift
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! In this actvity, they learn about the forces of drag and lift through a simple activity investigating how these two forces work on objects at different angles.
Read more - Discovering digestion
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! Introduce the main food groups to them with our Discovering digestion module, and look at why we need each of them in our diet.
Read more - The science of exercise
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! This activity looks at the cardiovascular system and cellular respiration through an investigation of the science of exercise.
Read more - Forces at work: Friction and grip
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! They will take part in a simple activity to demonstrate the importance of Friction and grip, through the use of a force gauge/force meter to measure force in Newtons.
Read more - What is data science?
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! Engage them in the real-world application of data science through GSK examples of how we use data science in our business, and bring this career to life for your class.
Read more - How an arm works
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! They investigate the basics of biomechanics and antagonistic muscle pairs in this activity. They look at where different types of lever exist in the body, as well as learning how to explain antagonistic muscles.
Read more - Real world statistics
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! How can data and statistics help make society healthier? Demonstrate the important role of large data sets in making decisions about healthcare as students analyse data in smoking and lung cancer mortality.
Read more - Fighting malaria
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! Introduce them to the challenges that scientists face when tackling the world’s largest parasitic killer: malaria.
Read more - Apps to the rescue: Part 2
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM!How can we use technology to improve healthcare? In this activity, students explore how smart technology can address design opportunities in a healthcare context.
Read more - Apps to the rescue: Part 1
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! This activity supports students to develop an understanding of mobile apps and how they can be used to detect, predict and adapt behaviour. They analyse hidden sensors within smartphones and their relationship with mobile applications through two interactive activities.
Read more - Discovering chromatography
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! They use chromatography to separate felt pen inks into pigments. A fun, hands-on experiments to engage young people in STEM that can be completed at home or in school.
Read more - Exploring electrolysis
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! Students explore the process by building a circuit with simple materials and make sodium hydroxide; one of the most used ingredients in making medicines.
Read more - Inclusive design
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! What is inclusive design, and why is it important? This module explores the seven key principles of inclusive design and how they inform the idea development process.
Read more - Coding for health
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! Put ytheir coding skills to the test with this fun activity that asks them to explore user needs, identifying and understanding them in order to design, build and code an activity tracker from a micro:bit.
Read more - You and your community
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! They are challenged to create an enterprising idea that will help solve a public health problem in their local area. The activity is intended to help students to understand public health better, research issues relevant to their community and develop a campaign that could help address the problem.
Read more - Fundamentals of data analysis
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! Using the Reaction game, students conduct a 'clinical trial' in this module. They test their reaction time and use their mental arithmetic skills to analyse the data set, getting an insight into the world of a statistician.
Read more - Molecule to medicine
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! Students become lab scientists for the day and discover the seven stages of medicine development. By the end of the activity, they will have learnt the definition of a medicine, describe the main factors behind medicine development, and understand the different stages in the process.
Read more - Probability and immunity
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! In this activity, students explore probability through the lens of vaccines and immunity. They use judgement to make predictions about events and use a probability scale to assign numerical values to these judgements. Agreat resource for students to practise converting values between fractions, decimals and percentages.
Read more - GSK STEM Education Resources
GSK have produced a series of curriculum-linked STEM resources for 11-14 year-olds. They include learning resources for students, educator guidance and support, and STEM careers guidance.
Read more - If You Were An Engineer, What Would You Do?®
This exciting competition mapped to the curriculum, asks pupils from primary schools, secondary schools and nurseries to identify a problem in the world and design a solution to it. Inspired through engagement with engineering professionals, pupils are encouraged to ‘find the engineer they could be’ by designing the future of engineering.
Read more - ASE Book of the Year Competition
The award is designed to celebrate science writing that educates and inspires science learners and educators of all ages. We are seeking books that go that extra mile and support our vision of ‘science for all’.
Read more - Regreen the desert
Regreen the desert is a great new STEM challenge from Practical Action. Designed for ages 7-14 pupils use their STEM skills to provide a solution for a community in Sudan suffering from drought as a result of climate change.
Read more - CREST Awards
CREST (CREativity in Science and Technology) is a UK-wide Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) award scheme managed by the British Science Association.
Read more - The Squashed Tomato Challenge
Challenge your students to take on a real life problem affecting people in Nepal.
Read more - SeeMe
A collaboration between Siemens and the Girls’ School Association (GSA). TV presenter and scientist Fran Scott presents an interactive, curriculum-linked stage show to build confidence and motivate girls to consider a job using STEM subjects.
Read more - The Greenpower Challenge
UK charity Greenpower Education Trust is inviting schools to enter the Greenpower Challenge with the aid of a bursary scheme, supported by Siemens.
Read more - IOP Resources
IOPSpark is growing bank of over 2000 free, inter-linked IOP education resources and has been designed to give teachers, trainees and teacher trainers a one-stop-destination to access the best physics resources and thinking available.
Read more - OurFuture.Energy
OurFuture.Energy is the place to find all the energy themed resources you'll need for your classroom
Read more - Crest Awards through Practical Action STEM Challenges
We have worked with the British Science Association to ensure a number of our resources can be used to help pupils achieve a British Science Association CREST Award at different levels. Suitable for primary and secondary pupils.
Read more - OF.E and ASE Energy Resources Project
Exploring energy resources provides students with an insight into their future, as the world’s energy mix is likely to look very different in the coming decades as we tackle the challenges of climate change a growing world population, and the need to connect over a billion people who currently don’t have access to electricity.
Read more - OurFuture.Energy
OurFuture.Energy is an online education resource for 11-16 year olds, which aims to inform young people of the importance of energy in our daily lives, the basic science behind it and the challenges we face in balancing our energy use and supply to meet demand
Read more - First Lego League
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is the operational partner for the FLL® competition in the UK and Ireland. FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) is a global science and technology competition with over 250,000 young people taking part each year.
Read more - Free A2 posters from IET
A range of free primary and secondary curriculum support posters, related to various aspects of electricity and power. IET also work as part of Tomorrow's Engineers and these additional engineering posters are available for download or order.
Read more - IET Faraday DIY Challenge Days
Run your very own Challenge in school with these online DIY Faraday Challenge Days. These are packages of printable and electronic resources and guidance notes for teachers and technicians that take you through the day.
Read more - Trajan MiPlatform
The MiPlatform: Special offer extended to Janauary 2017! Transform your optical microscope with a MiPlatform and a smartphone. View high quality images quickly and ergonomically.
Read more - Operating Theatre Live
Operating Theatre Live is the UK’s ultimate medical experience. Team Operating Theatre Live travel the UK delivering workshops in schools teaching science with a careers focus in a real operating theatre using real anatomy!
Read more - Practical Action Posters
A range of colourful posters freely available from Practical Action.
Read more - Technology Justice
Questions around technology and the right to access it in today’s world and more are explored in this engaging set of resources for students aged 9-19.
Read more - Moja Island
Evaluating renewable energy resources, Moja Island is a discussion based 1-2 hour activity which will reinforce students' understanding of renewable energy sources.
Read more - Practical Action evaluation tools
Support your students to evaluate products and designs. The Practical Action evaluation tools give students (aged 7-19) an opportunity to analyse their products, designs or existing products.
Read more - #techjustice in action
A series of three videos presented by Ortis Deley, technology justice is all about ensuring everyone has access to technology that is essential for life.
Read more - Water for the world
Help pupils find out about access to water and build their own filters. An activity developed with Engineers Without Borders as an education outreach workshop for pupils aged 7-14.
Read more - Small Is Challenge
A design challenge for students aged 7 to 14. Students look at technologies from the last 100 years and invent a product that could help us lead a more sustainable future.
Read more - Practical Action galleries
Images from Practical Action's projects around the world, helping poor people use technology to improve their lives. All images can be used by teachers and students for educational purposes.
Read more - 100 Small things
A free colourful A1 Poster for students aged 7-18 with 90 ideas of small things they can do to make a difference to their global community and environment, plus space for them to add 10 ideas of their own. Divided into the 6R’s ( Reduce , Reuse, Recycle , Repair, Refuse, Rethink) it can be used as a great teaching resource as well as a poster.
Read more - Who's most at risk
Who's most at risk? is an exciting role play activity that enables pupils aged 11-18 years to understand some of the key factors that place people around the world at risk from the effects of natural hazards.
Read more - Global learning opportunities linked to the curriculum
These documents identify opportunities where teaching in a global context enriches pupils’ learning in the new science curricular for ages 7-14 and give examples of Practical Action's teaching resources for science. They are available for the England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland curricula.
Read more - Energy and the Global Goals
Two short activities to develop pupils understanding of why energy is essential if we are to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
Read more - Power for the world
Downloadable resources aimed at pupils aged 7-14 working in teams as they learn about energy, energy resources and differences in energy access around the world. They go on to design and build their own wind turbine
Read more - The wind power challenge
A hands-on activity where students are given minimal materials and challenged to design a wind powered machine that can lift a weighted cup off the floor. Teachers instruction sheets, related video clips and even certificates are available to download.
Read more - Solarcentury solar energy resources
Solarcentury, together with SolarAid and in association with the University of York, have developed science resources for 14-16 year olds which will help answer questions about the impact and uses of solar photovoltaics (PV) in Africa and the UK.
Read more - Floating garden challenge
A fun hands on investigation suitable for KS 2-5 pupils The problem: as a result of climate change there is more rain in Bangladesh than ever before. Land where farmers used to grow their crops is now flooded on a regular basis.
Read more - The BBC micro:bit
Philip Harris is really excited to be working with the BBC to deliver their brand new BBC micro:bit to your door. The BBC micro:bit has loads of great features including Bluetooth, a motion detector and it can even tell what direction you’re going in.
Read more - Bulk Properties of Copper: An Introduction
This introductory resource from the Copper Development Association starts to explore copper's electrical and thermal conductivity.
Read more - Copper Alloys in Aquaculture
Aquaculture is a $100 billion global industry that supplies almost half the world's demand for fish and is the fastest growing animal-food producing sector worldwide. Copper alloys inherently resist biofouling, without any special treatments or additions.
Read more - Copper Alloys in Sculpture
Copper alloys have been used in sculpture for thousands of years. These include bronzes, brass and gunmetal. This resource looks at the processes involve in modern bronze sculpture.
Read more - Copper Alloys in Music
Explore how copper alloys are used in musical instruments from brass tubas to cymbals and bells.
Read more - Copper Alloys in Coinage
The corrosion resistance of copper and its alloys means that coins and tokens are found which date back hundreds and sometimes thousands of years. Archaeologists use coins to help date excavation sites. The copper alloys used for coins can retain information such as names and dates, even after being buried in the soil for generations.
Read more - The Speckled Monster
Children take part in a simulation of a smallpox outbreak which introduces them to the observations that led Edward Jenner to his world-changing discovery that cowpox gives immunity to the dreaded ‘Speckled Monster’.
Read more - BBSRC YouTube
Inspirational short videos from BBSRC. Our favourite video looks at 3D printing giant germs!
Read more - Q-files
A free online illustrated encyclopaedia for children
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