The Principia Space Diary aims to help children find out more about the Principia mission, to strengthen literacy and digital literacy skills and engage children in STEM learning....

This report, edited by Wynne Harlen in 2009, sets out the principles that should underpin the science education of all students throughout their schooling. It argues that students should be helped to develop ‘big ideas’ of science and about science that will enable them to understand the scientific aspects of the...

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A video shows paper being loaded into a printer. The...

A comprehensive, 60-page PDF guide detailing everything you need to know about 3D printing in the classroom. The chapters included in this guide are:

• An Introduction to 3D Printing
• Getting 3D Printable Files
• Preparing Files for 3D Printing
• 3D Printing Tips for the Classroom...

The resource includes Scratch blocks which can be printed and laminated to allow children to create block algorithms visually and in a hands-on way. A great resource to introduce the idea of Scratch blocks to Key Stage One students in the hope that they will become familiar with the system when they reach Key Stage...

Two different sets of printable Scratch blocks that could be used for display or for unplugged programming in upper key stage 1 classrooms as an introduction to programming.

Alec Jackson is the author of the Scratch block cutouts resource.

James Holmes, Gary Setchell, Keith Madderson and Cobie van de...

This Cre8ate maths resource looks at challenges derived from printing processes where both logic and geometric thinking are required. In Folding booklets students are given a piece of A4 paper which they fold to form a 16 page booklet and, without cutting the folds in the paper, are challenged to number the pages...

This Catalyst article looks at 3D printing, a new technology which is rapidly finding applications. Although probably too slow for mass production it is useful for producing prototypes and tailor-made items. In a 3D printer, layers of polymer beads are printed one on top of the other. Heat melts the polymer beads...

This resource features a task that involves modelling a practical situation using functions and then representing this with a graph.

Students are presented with a situation where tickets are to be printed for a show. Two companies give costings in terms of words. Students must model the situation using...

This resource contains ten instant maths ideas covering a whole range of suggestions that may be used as starter questions, extension questions or probing questions to assess understanding. Areas covered include: * exploring the different answers that can be achieved by completing parts of a complicated calculation...

This interactive excel file shows how the volume of a prism relates to the area of cross section and the length. Various different shapes of cross section are used including pentagons, hexagons, circles and semicircles. In each interactive sheet the cross section can be...

This resource contains a collection of dynamic pictures designed to illustrate some of the common prisms and their properties: triangular, cuboidal, pentagonal, hexagonal, circular, semi-circular. Different prisms of the same type may be generated and the cross-section...

Produced by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), these resources are aimed at mathematics practitioners. .

Sessions in this resource look at:

• Probability scales (using higher order questions)
• Probability, fractions, decimals and percentages (creating connections between...

This resource contains seventeen instant maths ideas beginning by exploring probability scales and simple probability. Students are asked to invent a fair game, to conduct an experiment using two dice and to discuss a number of statements relating to probability. Further suggestions include experimenting with three...

This series interactive excel sheets explores probability. New data sets can be generated each time by the click of a button.

The first sheet explores the language of probability and how this ties in with percentage...