Produced by The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), this booklet offers advice and guidance for:
* teachers who wish to bring industrial speakers into school
* industrial speakers who would like an insight into the needs of teachers and their...

The National Strategies designed some unit plans to exemplify units for Year Seven for those students working below level three. They represent a sample of units from the Year Seven curriculum map template and include ideas and activities that can be adapted to meet the needs of students, offering a flexible and...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe how the sensation of hotness is caused by vibrating particles.
• Describe the mechanism of thermal conduction that can occur in all solids.
• Explain why metals are...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe the arrangement and movement of particles in a substance in the solid, liquid and gas states.
• Use the particle model to describe what happens to a substance when it...

This resource contains two activities and accompanying teachers’ notes.

Spectra: A tale of two elements
Students must...

In this activity, students are presented with the question: “Do speed cameras reduce road casualties – or not?”. The activity is set in the context of media reporting to explore ideas of randomness, probability and drawing conclusions from data. A secondary theme is the mathematical modelling of a real situation....

This quick game is provided by ASE and it aims to recap and reinforce students' knowledge of some aspects of physical processes. The resource comprises of cards and instructions for playing the game. Students compete to collect the beginning and end of statements or questions. Areas covered are electricity, forces...

This resource is part of a collection of Nuffield Maths resources that explore Algebra and Maths. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in Higher Level GCSE and Level 2 Functional Mathematics.

In this ‘Speed and distance’ resource students explore the idea that the area under speed-time graphs can be used...

This resource from the Construction Youth Trust contains guidance on running a carousel format careers event, whereby a range of different skilled industry participants host a table and facilitate conversations with students. The materials have been written to help non-teaching STEM professionals to work with...

Act 1

A torch is pointed in the direction of the moon and...

This sub-collection of materials from the dy/dan collection contains three resources that bring mathematical storytelling to the classroom in the context of ‘speed, acceleration, and motion’. Resources comprise:

• Act One: a video or photograph to provide a ‘hook’ to the problem

• Act...

This resource from the IET Faraday programme, supported by MEI and Tomorrow's Engineers, provides students with the opportunity to explore the mathematics behind bicycle speedometers, including circle properties and compound measures.

"Bicycle speedometers can only provide accurate...

In this Bowland assessment task, students are asked to calculate the average amount of time Santa can spend in each house in the UK on Christmas Eve. Students are presented with facts about the population of the UK and constraints by which Santa must abide. They are then required to make reasonable assumptions and...