Helpful reads
Check out our library of helpful reads full of hints, tips and advice to elevate your teaching practice.
Helpful reads are organised alphabetically, below our list of featured reads, and can also be accessed through the main search function on the STEM Learning website. Our featured reads include our most recent helpful reads, as well as content that is topical, and we think might be useful for you right now.
Featured reads
Find out how you can ensure your children are working safely in science lessons.
Learn more about how Explorify can support you in teaching about the climate challenge.
Interested in reading more about the latest thinking and research or finding key documents quickly?
All helpful reads
Summary of the Ofsted report findings relevant to primary science.
Learn more about how Explorify can support you in teaching about the climate challenge.
At Explorify we have a range of activities which will help recognise and celebrate the valuable contributions that Black people make in all STEM subjects.
Explore the benefits that learning science outdoors can provide for your pupils.
The leaves are changing colour and beginning to fall, just as the first autumn storms are arriving. Autumn is here.
Assessment is something teachers do all the time, yet assessment in science is a topic teachers often say they worry about. This article walks through a teaching sequence about classification.
Calling all Early Years teachers! Explorify now has a wide range of activities designed especially for 3 – 5 year olds.
Learn more about the findings of the 2023 and 2024 Explorify evaluation by CFE Research.
We know literacy is one of the main priorities. Each of our activities will get your children thinking, observing, discussing and reasoning in dynamic and exciting sessions.
Use these Explorify activities to build maths and numeracy skills with your class.
Read a guest blog written by Linda Crouch, Head of Science at Berwick Academy and STEM Learning's secondary education adviser.
"Assessment is not something that happens in the plenary at the end of a lesson, it starts with planning and should be embedded throughout your teaching." Sarah Eames from Sandfield Close Primary School shares her tips on how to do assessment well.
Different animals and plants thrive in different habitats. Look at how they live. Your pupils will learn about the world around them near and far and develop their scientific thinking as they explore the inhabitants.
Find out how you can ensure your children are working safely in science lessons.
Explorify can help you plan a unit on Light and build long term memories with our new and undated activities.
Find out more about the new activities which will help children build their long-term memory.
Find out more about our new and updated Sound activities and how Explorify can help you plan a unit on Sound that builds children’s long-term memories.
Interested in reading more about the latest thinking and research or finding key documents quickly?
An overview of Explorify activities to help pupils explore the science of space.
Explorify, has a science topic called ‘Celebrating Scientists’ which provides teachers with easy-to-use resources which relate the work of scientists to the primary science curriculum.
Discover new STEM-tastic books to inspire your pupils with Explorify's Meet the author series.
Find out what teachers who have trialled Explorify in their classrooms tell us about their experiences.
Explorify is great for promoting talk and higher-order thinking in the classroom and it can also help you with a range of science enquiry ideas as well.
Linked to the English national curriculum and expectations of pupils, PLAN was designed to help teachers make summative judgements in science by making sure planned teaching and learning activities will enable children to reach the standard.
If you are the Science Subject Leader at your school, you should expect a “deep dive” when Ofsted visit.
Our bodies are home to millions of microorganisms. This article will equip you with knowledge about how they affect us and our bodies.
Fire your children’s curiosity and creativity while finding connections between their science learning and a variety of engaging and inspiring works of art.
The question of how to engage and reach more children through science is one that concerns many primary teachers.
This blog will help you incorporate primary science teaching into whole school events.
We’ve got some tips to help you get to know the children on an individual level but also assess the dynamics and social skills of the class as a whole.
When the weather is warm, make the most of it and follow our top five tips for taking your learning outside.
Explorify is developing activities for testing long-term memory.
Develop your little ones’ curiosity, concentration and observational skills with Explorify’s short videos focusing on changes over time.
With a plethora of online resources and schemes of work available to primary teachers today, it can be easy to lose sight of exactly what you should be teaching.
How can teachers address the gender split within science, encouraging young learners to see and understand science's relevance and benefits to society?
Have you been wondering how Explorify can support you as you encourage your pupils to work in a scientific way? Read our top tips to find out!
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