Royal Academy of Engineering "Sustainable futures" - practical activities and resources for primary and secondary STEM teachers Subject leaders' network meeting RE219 / D20

An online meeting of CPD, networking and sharing of good practice. Teachers attending this event receive free individual pupil packs on our latest resource – Sustainable Futures. This resource can be used in the classroom in the context of your STEM subject and as part of your extra-curricular STEM activities. Pupils who complete activities can also be accredited through a digital badge awards system.

Some of the biggest challenges we face stem from how we interact with our environment, and engineering is at the heart of finding sustainable solutions. From renewable power to recycling, to making our homes more energy efficient, this is a vital field. Challenges in this STEM resource invite learners to explore some of these important and pressing problems that we face as a society and to act and think like engineers as they come up with their own solutions to a sustainable innovation design challenge.

The sustainable innovation design challenge will form part of a competition where we would like to see the sustainable design innovations from teams of pupils from as many schools in the network as possible. Shortlisted teams will have the opportunity to bring their innovations to life with prizes from the Academy as well as being invited to showcase their work at the Connecting STEM Teachers 10 year celebration event next summer.

This event will be hosted online by our London Region CST Coordinator: Tunde Orelaja I conjunction with South London Science Learning Partnership. This event is for teachers who are looking to develop the STEM curriculum in their school and build the knowledge and confidence to engage more pupils with STEM subjects.