This report from Ofsted is a review of science in Key Stage Three and is concerned with students’ attainment and progress and the quality of teaching. It is intended to help school managers and teachers improve standards and raise the quality of work in Key Stage Three.

The report is based upon evidence form...

• What is practical science like in many secondary schools?
• What do we want it to look like?
• How can teachers, departments and schools be encouraged to plan...

This guidance is aimed at businesses and other organisations looking to provide support and inspiration for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in schools.  It is based on consultation with teachers, further developed through debate between teachers, businesses and learned societies.  Teachers...

The project was part of a wider Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) programme to encourage more young people to continue studying science beyond the age of 16. It addresses in particular a commitment in the Government’s Ten Year Science and Innovation Framework 2004–2014 to “review the Building...

With the introduction of the revised National Curriculum programmes of study, one of the Hampshire Leading Mathematics Teachers’ (LMT) core groups decided to focus on activities to promote cross-curricular STEM work in schools.

This resource considers how different subject areas can explicitly promote the learning of social and emotional skills. It provides an outline of how social and emotional skills are linked to subjects both in general terms and more specifically within each of the 2008 National Curriculum programmes of study. The...

This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of the properties of number, and a booklet 'Squares and Primes'.

Properties of number pack one contains sixteen work cards with a wide variety of...

Published by BEAM, this collection provides a selection of resources for teachers of primary and lower secondary mathematics. Included are a number of challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities and games to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding...

This Instant Maths Ideas resource from Colin Foster contains two files: Factors, Multiples, Prime Numbers and Divisibility contains 26 instant maths ideas requiring students to use Venn diagrams to show different sets of numbers, explore methods of prime factorisation, devise tests for divisibility, investigate...

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), introduces students to methods of how to identify what components can be used as electronic sensors.

The resource is designed so that students...

This resource written by Shirley Fall has fifteen cards each with a statement about 2-D shapes and how they lie on a 3 by 3 grid. The rationale is for students to discuss the possible options and work towards a solution of which 2-D shape lies in each of the grid cells. Extension questions are also posed.

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This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of the properties of shapes, from identifying shapes to investigating right-angles in polygons.

Properties of shapes pack one contains nine work cards...

A collection of resources for GCSE Design and Technology that provide lesson resources for teaching the properties of different polymers, the production of polymers, use of additives and content on biodegradable plastics.