This challenge, from Practical Action, requires students to design and build a model structure that will enable farmers to grow crops even in an area that may become flooded. A floating garden, built on a base of aquatic weeds, is a low cost and sustainable way of allowing people to grow vegetables. The resource...

Six shapes are presented in different 3D orientations. The task is to find which of the shapes is identical.

Students work in teams to design and make a prototype device that can design and make a prototype of a simple device (to be sold in stores like B&Q) that will allow homeowners to remove water from their house during periods of flooding.

In this challenge the device will have to move 100ml of water from...

After learning about flooding, students consider the design problems caused by its early detection. Students are introduced to moisture sensors, and can build their own using the instructions provided or use a ready-made version. This is connected to the BBC micro:bit and used as an input device. After processing...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand:

• Angles in quadrilaterals
• Rotation
• Geometric reasoning and proof

The task examines a floor pattern. The first example shows two overlapping squares, both with the same centre, but with one rotated through 45...

This resource consists of a number of flow diagrams providing the steps required to calculate values of different properties of a variety of shapes and solids given differing starting points. Covered are square, circle, cube, sphere, cone, pyramid, sector of a circle, cylinder, rectangle. There is also a flow...

The aim of this experiment is to investigate the velocity of charged ions in an electric field. This is of the same order as the drift velocity of electrons in a wire under the influence of the same field.  A variety of analysis and conclusions that can be draw are provided.

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The numbers from 1 to 9 are to be placed on a grid superimposed on a flower. The challenge is to ensure that the total of each line gives an equal sum. This resource is designed to be used after the ‘Number Bond Garden’ puzzle. The resource is suitable for Key Stage 2 students.

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This resource is designed as an introduction to deployable structures using flowers as an example from the natural world. It has activities associated with nets and density and discussion of a link to symmetry and transformations. There are also various practical suggestions (such as making a party blower).

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The network flow problem involves finding the optimum route through a flow network; a directed graph where each arc has a capacity and each arc receives a flow. Typical examples include: evacuation plans and delivery services. The problem involves students analysing the plan of a school canteen and deciding whether...

This is one of a set of resources produced in conjunction with the engineering company Arconic. The resources are designed to support teaching of key engineering concepts at both key stage 3 and key stage 4, including the new GCSE in Engineering. This resource focusses on the application of maths in engineering....

Using a huge wall map of the world, flower pots, compost and videos, children find out everything there is to know about the fruit they eat. They investigate where their fruit has travelled from, and what transport was used getting it to the UK. Children explore the different parts of fruit and compare the seeds of...

This puzzle is idea for use when teaching nets. Six nets are presented and the challenge is to decide which can be folded into polyhedral. The nets are provided in a format that allows for cutting out to test answers. This resource is suitable for Key Stage 3.

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This lesson is designed to introduce students to the Apollo missions and set the scene for the Lunar samples by investigating the landing sites where some of the samples in the Lunar disk came from. Students will use Google Earth to explore the Apollo 15 landing site, finding out information about the samples...

In this activity students consider the questions: Which components of food are healthy and which are not? Why should we care about this? What are the effects of the individual components of food on the human body? What do our families eat? What are the likely effects of what we eat? How can we ensure that the...