Term: Spring
STEM through storytelling
STEM Ambassadors are being trained into super storytellers – all ready to come into your school and show your class that science is for everyone. The real-life scientists will be armed with stereotype-busting books – showing women, people from BAME backgrounds and people with neurodiversity – doing fun science-y stuff. They’ll share these engaging stories… Continue reading STEM through storytelling
British Science Week Activity Packs Now Available
British Science Week is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths that will take place between 11-20 March 2022! The British Science Week activity packs for 2022 have been launched today, providing over 40 simple, hands-on science activities which teachers, parents and community group leaders can use with students and children during British… Continue reading British Science Week Activity Packs Now Available
Create a plan for your school with the Schools Climate Action Planner
Transform Our World and our partners have launched a free, online, easy-to-use action planning tool to help teachers and students prioritise the actions their school can take to reduce its environmental impact. The tool points you to the best support, resources, and programmes out there to help you take impactful action across all areas of school life… Continue reading Create a plan for your school with the Schools Climate Action Planner
We Make Our Future
We Make Our Future is a new interactive, educational & entertaining science show for the next generation of engineers! Full-dome digital projections allow us to visit engineering marvels from history and explore the pros and cons of modern life. Industry, technology and invention have progressed civilisation, but at what cost? Get to know how the… Continue reading We Make Our Future
The West in Minecraft
If you could completely re-design your city, your street, your home, what would you do differently? The West in Minecraft educational resources take a digital, play-based approach to support children to develop their own ideas and problem-solving skills, and engage with engineering as a creative and diverse subject that can impact the world around us.… Continue reading The West in Minecraft
Climate Change Series: Rising Sea Levels
Even a small increase in sea levels could affect tens of millions of people across the globe living along the coast, and the landscapes around them. This resource from Wicked Weather Watch uses simple experiments to demonstrate how and why sea levels rise, and what this means for people, animals and plants affected by rising… Continue reading Climate Change Series: Rising Sea Levels
Climate Change Series: Revealing the Secrets of Ponds and Peat-bogs!
Knowing about past changes in our environment helps us to understand what will happen to where we live as the climate changes in the future. This resource from the Wicked Weather Watch encourages you and your pupils to become Climate Detectives! Recreating a simple coring device to see what ponds and peat bogs can tell… Continue reading Climate Change Series: Revealing the Secrets of Ponds and Peat-bogs!
Engineering Curiosity Teaching Resources
To help you make the most of our new Engineering Curiosity cards, we have developed a full set of teaching resources, suitable for KS1-3 with flexibility for delivery both in class and at home. Our lessons are designed to engage pupils with engineering careers in the West of England, challenging stereotypes and dispelling common myths… Continue reading Engineering Curiosity Teaching Resources
Engineering Curiosity
Engineering Curiosity is a set of 52 ‘top-trump’ style cards, each themed on a real-life local engineer from the West of England region. Through the cards, children can explore the diversity of engineering, its people, skills and future career opportunities. The Engineering Curiosity card set can be used to play several games, and with accompanying… Continue reading Engineering Curiosity
Our City Our Future: Exploring Clean Air and Climate Change
What is Our City Our Future? Our City Our Future emerged from ClairCity, an EU research project that sought to include citizens in decision-making processes around clean air and climate change across Europe. Over 3,500 children and young people were involved during the course of the project from 2016-2020, taking part in various school lessons… Continue reading Our City Our Future: Exploring Clean Air and Climate Change
