As a child, Vivian French watched with her grandfather as a family of tiny caterpillar eggs turned, stage by magical stage, into beautiful butterflies. Now th reader can share the magic and find out all about...

An example of cogs, this pull along caterpillar has big wooden wheels, a red rope and is decorated with colourful beads. Its body moves up and down as it is pulled.

This is one of four of the most popular nature titles from the "Rainbows" series which is now available as a great new paperback edition! Each "Rainbows Nature" title follows the natural lifecycle of its subject,...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

This volume tells the reader everything there is to know about caterpillars using close-up photographs and annotated artwork. It examines the creature's lifecycle, habitat and feeding habits, as well as giving extra...

This series aims to encourage children to access the wonder of the world around them. The books have two reading levels, with a simple sentence on each page for beginners, and more complex information for more...

Working in a school without a physics specialist, Catherine contacted STEMNET for help with meeting the specifications of a new curriculum. As a result, the school gained help from a STEM Ambassador who not only explained particle physics in an accessible way but also showed how exciting careers in physics could be...

This very short video demonstrates the experiment that led Thomson to conclude that all atoms contain electrons and helped him to create his ‘plum pudding’ model of the atom.

This assessment task from Bowland requires students to analyse a claim made in an advert encouraging cat owners to have their cat neutered. The claim is made that an unneutered cat can have 2000 descendants in 18 months. Students are given a number of basic facts upon which to base their analysis. Students are...

Younger readers can follow the transformation from helpless kitten to independent cat in this book, one in a series of books which track the life cycles of familiar animals, both wild and domestic.

This video introduces a reliable technique to demonstrate tissue culture and totipotency, and shows how best to use this protocol with your students.

Unlike animal cells, many plant cells are totipotent, meaning that...

This book features quirky, enjoyable and entirely true instances of science going wrong, right and in totally unexpected directions from 600 BC onwards ... Just how did the scientific discoveries that have changed...

The dog has run into a cave and the children set out to find him. It is very dark and scary in the cave. How can the children use their torches and their knowledge of light to find their way - and their dog?

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The fearsome pirate Black Beard has buried his gold, and you have the map that leads the way. If you fail, you will be trapped inside the Cavern forever! The Cavern of Clues is a mathermatical mystery of calculations...

This design and technology activity looks at metal packaging linked to special events. After investigating various examples of such packaging, children decide on an event and work together to design a metal package for an unusual item that is not usually associated with this kind of packaging. They then design and...