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Practical Action
A collection of STEM challenges created by Practical Action to support primary and secondary STEM Clubs and curriculum activity.
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Ditch the dirt
This challenge enables pupils to model and test filters as a way of making dirty water cleaner. It can also be used to explore ways of making water safe to drink. Curriculum links include separation techniques and pure substances.
The challenge can provide a focus for National Science and Engineering Week,...
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Squashed tomato STEM challenge
This Practical Action resource presents a fun hands-on and brains-on challenge for Key Stages Two to Five.
The problem:...
Regreen the desert
Practical Action have supplied this teacher's pack to challenge students to use their STEM skills to come up with solutions to a problem of water shortage in Sudan. The pack includes a PowerPoint presentation and Teacher Guide so that teachers can outline the problem to their students. The PowerPoint makes...
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Wind power STEM challenge
From Practical Action, this challenge asks students to design a simple wind turbine capable of lifting a cup off the floor to bench height. The winning team will be the one producing a machine that lifts the most weight. The resource includes an instruction sheet, wind turbine images, links to videos and...
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| Subject(s) | Cross curricular, Design and technology, Engineering, Science |
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| Age | 7-11, 11-14, 14-16 |
| Published | n.a |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxde96 |
