- Mary Anning: A fossil hunter's story
To help primary educators of children aged 9-11 embed key moments in history and science within their curriculum, we have used the incredible real-life story of early 19th century fossil collector and palaeontologist Mary Anning to produce a series of high-quality teaching resources and professional learning strategies that all educators can now access free of charge.
Read more - Rolls Royce apprentice programme
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is offering a record number of places on its apprenticeship programme for 2022. Applications are now open for a total of 37 places. Closing date:20th February 2022.
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 - 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 - What is a vaccine?
Engage your age 11-14 students with STEM! Help them to explain what a vaccine is and understand how a vaccine helps the immune system fight disease through our starter activity.
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 2022 with regional events planned across the UK in April 2022.
Read more - 100 Ideas for Science
100 Ideas for Primary Teachers is a succinctly written, yet comprehensive collection of engaging activities and suggestions for teaching and learning science. This book covers several of the most challenging concepts in primary science, and offers a range of simple yet effective activities and strategies to help teachers plan engaging lessons.
Read more - Stay Safe With Fireworks
This publication by the Association for Sceince Education is intended to support teaching about fireworks and firework safety to childen aged between 5-7 years. It comprises engaging activities for Working Scientifically, English,History amd PSHE
Read more - GCSEPod
In or out of school, GCSEPod provides education on demand for 28 subjects. GCSEPod has Award-winning GCSE / IGCSE content trusted by 1700+ secondary schools.
Read more - Teaching Vacancies
Teaching Vacancies is the free national service for searching and listing teaching roles provided by the Department for Education. It is designed by schools for schools to reduce the amount of money spent on recruitment advertising
Read more - IOPSpark
IOPSPark provides authoritative content written by experts in the field of physics and bring together hundreds of teaching activities so you can find the right approach for your class.
Read more - ASE Conferences and Events
ASE events and conferences offer teacher-led professional development opportunities and are held at UK-wide venues.
Read more - 'Sea snot' plague hits Mediterranean sea
A large blanket of 'sea snot' has recently spread through the Sea of Marmara, south of Istanbul. Find about more about 'sea snot' and World Oceans Day here.
Read more - Royal Society of Chemistry
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society with the goal of advancing the chemical sciences. It supports professionals working in the field of chemistry, teachers and their students.
Read more - RSC website
The RSC’s education website is designed to help teachers find inspiration in their classroom teaching and feel supported in their continuing development and career progression.
Read more - Steps into Science
Steps into Science is the brand-new website from the Royal Society of Chemistry, developed with generous support from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. It’s a place where teachers can see all our primary science resources in one place.
Read more - IET Faraday Challenge Days 2021-22
Apply now to take part in a 2021-22 Faraday Challenge Day The IET Faraday Challenge is a free of charge annual competition that tasks students to research, design and make prototype solutions to real-world engineering problems. The deadline for applications is 1st July 2021.
Read more - TechHub
TechHub signposts wegpages and reports useful for technicians and supporting practical science teaching
Read more - 2021 Institute of Physics Awards
• The IOP Teachers of Physics Award celebrates secondary school physics teachers who have raised the profile of physics in their school. Is this you or someone you know? Submit your nomination today!
Read more - Mr Climate Change and the Beastly Yeast!
The MeMBrane project aims to improve the tolerance of microbes by modifying the cell membranes. MeMBrane project super-talented scientists Naomi Wilkinson and Sarah Routledge have written and illustrated a children's book about the SuperYeast citizen science project.
Read more - The Great Bug Hunt 2021
The winners of the 2021 Great Bug Hunt competition have been announced! Photo: H. Zell
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 - Primary Engineer
Our vision is to emsure all children and pupils reach their full potential by providing teacher training, developing teacher-led research, whole-class projects, skills competencies, inspiring competitiions and exhibitions and not least, fun!
Read more - GCSE Physics Formula and Symbols
We commissioned the Association for Science Education (ASE) to create these useful resources to help your students learn and recall what they need to know, plus bonus additional support materials.
Read more - ASE Book of the Year Competition
Winners of the 2020 ASE Book Awards annound. See the winners here!
Read more - Superhero Scientists
This beautifully illustrated book explores the work of famous scientists from long ago, other scientists who are alive today and people who use science in their jobs. Take a journey through the 21 chapters packed full of fabulous facts, life stories and scientific discoveries.
Read more - RPS Science Photography Competition
The Royal Photographic Society’s new Science Photographer of the Year competition 2020 and Young Science Photographer of the Year (under 18 years old) winning entries can now be seen at the Science + Industry Museum website
Read more - MeMBrane
The MeMBrane project aims to improve the tolerance of microbes to the stresses encountered during industrial bioprocesses by modifying the cell membranes. The project also aims to inspire young people to follow careers in biochemistry through engagment and participation.
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