This literature review, by NFER, sought to address the following research questions:

• What does AfL in science involve?
• What AfL techniques are...

This STEM activity supports pupils to develop their knowledge and understanding of litter and how data can be recorded and displayed. Pupils will have the opportunity to collect different types of litter and record the amount of each type found in a tally chart before being supported to create a pictogram to...

The activities provided in the Little Inventors collection aim to inspire children to use their imaginations to help them to think up, and draw original, funny, fantastical or practical invention ideas with no limits, to solve a range of perceived problems from food waste to those experienced in the Victorian Era....

A collection of resources, from the SYCD Primary CD, designed to develop and reinforce primary school pupils' understanding of the living world around them. The major resources are: *Growing pains - a drama script for older primary pupils, which explores what plants need in order to grow. *I scream for ice cream...

Have you ever travelled on a large vehicle ferry? How are the vehicles loaded? Why do you think it matters which vehicles go on first or where they are put on the car deck?If you are loading cargo (into a rucksack, onto a boat, onto ...

This book, which forms part of the weaving series from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, is an introduction to logic in a very general sense.

Its main aim was to help students aged from about 8 to 12 to think clearly...

A collection of resources linked to the London Marathon that explore:- 

• the forces involved in running and specifically air resistance
• the engineering involved in developing products such as advanced running shoes, or running blades for amputees and people born without legs, and sports...

This activity, using the theme of the London Marathon, introduces the idea of creating a route map, highlighting the key landmarks, as a graphic product. The activity has cross-curricular links to geography and history.

This film focuses on Marian Trench which is seven miles is a long way down... more than a mile deeper than Mount Everest is up....

These materials, produced by Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT), contain masters for many of the resources required for the lessons in the Primary extension. They include number lines, operation signs, and 2-dimensional shapes.

Mah Hussain-Gambles is a biker, a rock music fan and a pharmacologist. Her childhood began in Pakistan and ended in Hull, where she was the only student with Asian heritage at her comprehensive school.

Following a degree in pharmacology, success as a scientist in industry and as social scientist in academia...

This report, published by Ofsted in November 2013, sets out the findings of a new survey of science in 91 primary and 89 secondary schools, which was carried out between 2010 and 2013 and aims to support schools in implementing the new National Curriculum.

This resource provides a word search type activity in which children find number bonds to ten. Containing three 8 by 8 grids of numbers children are challenged to find two adjacent numbers, either horizontally or vertically that total 10. The boards contain 14 to 18 number pairs which total 10.

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Designed to be accessible for all primary aged children, this activity guides you and your pupils through the simple steps to make a clay teacup for a celebration party or commemorative cup to keep or give away as a gift. This activity is mapped to the UK curricula for design and technology and is easy to follow,...

This resource from the IET helps pupils learn about 2D and 3D shapes, as well as faces, edges and vertices, whilst creating their own homemade Christmas trees. The resources provided include full lesson guidance as well as a wordsearch to reinforce understanding of key vocabulary.