This resource introduces Year 6 pupils to the concept of market research, giving them the opportunity to design and conduct a survey and present their data in a pie chart. Children will be introduced to market research as a business tool to find out about their restaurant customers’ preferences and help them to...

This resource supports teaching Year 6 pupils to work within a budget, analyse the nutritional content of food and solve multi step problems. Through these resources pupils will be challenged to make their menu ideas fit within a set budget. Pupils will need to use written calculation methods in a real life context...

This resource offers a real life context for the Year 6 maths curriculum by giving pupils the chance to calculate profit and solve multi step problems. Throughout this session pupils will revise and apply formal calculation methods when deciding on a selling price for their dishes and they will also need to...

This resource offers a real life context for Year 6 pupils to solve problems involving area and perimeter while designing a restaurant floor plan. Pupils will apply their maths learning to design their restaurant seating area. The session builds in the chance to use online shopping websites to calculate the cost of...

This resource supports the electricity requirement of the Year 6 national curriculum supporting pupils to associate the brightness of a lamp with the number and voltage of cells in a circuit, to use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram and to design and make a lighting circuit for a...

This resource supports the design technology curriculum by allowing Year 6 pupils to produce a balanced meal, prepare vegetables safely and present food in an appealing way. In this session pupils will plan and follow their chosen adapted recipe to make the balanced dish from their menu that they previously...

These resources have been created for Year 6 pupils in line with the LKS2 science, maths, computing, art and design technology curriculum.

Rolls Royce has produced this series of practical STEAM activities for Year 5 pupils. Within the collection there is an art and design, engineering, maths, science and technology activity which can be used to enhance existing pupil knowledge or to teach a key area of the UKS2 Science, Maths, Design Technology or...

This resource provides a brief overview of a STEM project which supports Year 6 pupils working in groups to set up a themed restaurant business and design, make and market a range of dishes that feature a British food as their main ingredient. This project provides a range of opportunities to enhance Year 6...

A Catalyst article about International Heliophysical Year (2007-08) - a year of scientific collaboration, studying the Sun and the impact of its radiation on the Earth. How the Sun is changing and the history of solar research is examined.

This article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science Review 2007, Volume...

This activity book aims to show young children some of the jobs in engineering, science, technology and construction that anyone can do. It contains various short activities including colouring, matching, spot the difference based around various jobs and a story featuring Ruby the Roofer. The characters in this...

A Catalyst article looking at the methods used to power rockets. Solid rocket boosters and liquid fuel rockets are the two main propulsion systems used to power rockets and solar power is used to drive electrical equipment. This article looks at these power systems and the future for rocket science.

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This book looks at several aspects of how the mind works: *Making sense of the world * How we perceive * How we behave * Ways of learning * How we think and feel * What kind of person are you? You and Your Mind was one of the Science at Work series. All the booklets in the series were highly illustrated with...

These resources offer a series of activities to use alongside the six books which have been shortlisted for the Young People’s Book Prize 2021.The activities include investigations and experiments related to various topics, such as plants, biodiversity and the environment, inventions and inventors, space and the...