STEM Directory
The STEM Directory is a database of providers offering STEM enhancement and enrichment to schools and colleges locally and nationally. Teachers can easily search for shows, workshops, debates, challenges, visiting speakers and more.
Find exciting opportunities for in-class support, memorable days out, and engaging projects to motivate your students.
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The Cloud Factory
A super-sensory hands-on workshop for primary and SEN schools with an award winning science presenter. Have you ever touched a cloud? Have you ever smelled or tasted a strawberry cloud?!Using some special equipment, we make and explore dry ice clouds using all our senses. See the cloud, touch its softness, hear...3...2...1...LAUNCH!
A day of hands-on rocket workshops which can be adapted for the whole school, including SEN schools. Everyone can launch their own rocket!Pupils will build and test a stomp rocket then modify it to optimise it's flight. They learn about the effects of some forces (especially drag and gravity!) first-hand. We...Amazing Air!
You can't see, hear, smell, taste or touch the air, so how do we know it's really there?!In this multi-sensory, participatory show, we'll be doing some experiments to change the air and prove that it really is there!The show is best performed separately for EYFS, KS1 and KS2 - that way everyone get...A day of Exploding Custard science shows and bubble mayhem in the playground
The inspirational ‘Exploding Custard’ science-show has been presented by award-winning science communicator Ian Russell for over 30 years! It is a spectacular, lively, and light-hearted sharing of more experiments than you’ll be able to remember. All of them use everyday materials and...Growing for Gold - Combatting Climate Change - whole-school Science Day
If you're looking for a way to celebrate British Science Week, there is still time to order and download your Growing for Gold - Combatting Climate Change teaching resource pack, which contains everything you need to host your own, whole-school Science day, exploring this year's British Science...Explorer Dome Hands-On Science Shows
Explorer Dome is UniqueHands-On ScienceWe believe that the best way to learn is by doing – that’s why all of our shows are fully interactive, making Explorer Dome shows 100% presenter-led, hands-on and unforgettable!“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” (Confucius)...CSI: Maths Live! - UK wide
We know how challenging it can be to bring in external visitors and workshop providers at the moment - so we’ve risen to the challenge by rethinking some of our most popular and successful programmes in ways that they can be beamed live into your classrooms by one of our expert team of practitioners! Bookings...Digital, Live and In-Person STEM workshops from As Creatives - UK wide
Enjoy some of our most popular whole-school programmes without us even stepping foot inside your building! Including the maths/science mash-up The Race into Space, The Riddle of the Sphinx and The Benefactor maths day. https://www.ascreatives.com/stem-enrichment-and-enhancement-ee-grant-scheme-now-open/The Race...LEGO WeDo (Robotics for younger pupils) Activity Day
A LEGO Robotics activity in your school using programmable LEGO WeDo. A brief description of how the workshop would be run?:Up to 18 programmable LEGO WeDo kits for the pupils to use (in pairs).Build a model and program it to do some simple tasks with motors and sensors.Programming can be done...Virtual Multi-School Arctic Adventure Days
Our whole-day virtual event provides schools across the country with a fun and exciting day of activities and lessons investigating "What Makes the Arctic So Cool?". The session includes cross-curricular education, such as team-building skills, mathematics, creative writing, and geography. Pupils will...Pages
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The Royal Institution runs two enrichment and enhancement grant schemes. Grants of up to £500 are available to UK-registered state schools to host a STEM activity selected from the STEM Directories.
There are a number of other organisations that offer grants to schools.
About STEM Directory
The STEM Directory contains searchable activities that enhance STEM teaching in schools and colleges. Teachers can search for shows, workshops, debates, challenges, visiting speakers and more.
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Providers: add an activity
If you provide shows, talks, workshops, challenges, museum visits, teacher CPD or other enrichment and enhancement activities that help promote STEM to schools and colleges, then you may be eligible to feature in the STEM Directory.
Please use the link below to register and submit an activity.