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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Time for Science - British Science Week 2024 - Primary Science Day

Time for Science - Whole School Primary Science Teaching ResourcePlacing science, engineering and technology firmly in context by directly relating content to our everyday lives and experiences, Time for Science features inbuilt opportunities for children to complete our ...

The Connection - Science Workshops for Primary Schools

The Connection - Whole-School Primary Science Day The Connection places science, engineering and technology firmly in context by exploring the lives, achievements and legacies of individuals whose inventions and discoveries have affected all our lives! A highly engaging, thought provoking and informative...

Science Show &Workshops for Schools

Hands-on science shows and science workshops for Primary Schools and groups in Devon and the South West helping to support your curriculum Educational science shows and science workshops to support your curriculumInteractive, curriculum relevant, whole school science showsEducational science workshops where...

Schools on Reserves at RSPB Old Moor

Take your pupils learning outside of the classroom with an unforgettable visit to RSPB Old Moor nature reserve to discover and investigate the natural world. Our wetland nature reserve is an oasis for wildlife in a post mining urban landscape.Your pupils will become young scientists for the day and will be encouraged...

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...

Live, interactive science shows and workshops

Science Made Simple brings the brilliance of science to life with amazing, high energy interactive shows for schools and festivals.We have shows available for all ages; from our Bubbles and Balloons show aimed at ages 4-7, to our Engineering for Life: From Cradle to Grave aimed at KS3/4 and beyond.Find out more,...

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Grants for school

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.

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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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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.

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