Christmas - Secondary resources
This collection includes a wide range of resources to bring the Christmas theme into Science, Maths, Computing, and design and technology lessons. Activities include:
- deciding which planet Santa might live on
- a coding lesson for lights on a Christmas tree,
- making a Rudolph the red nosed reindeer decoration which lights up
- calculations involved in planning a Christmas party or finding out the cost of Christmas.
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Christmas list
This activity links to aspects of mathematics and citizenship by calculating the cost of a family Christmas list and how decisions might need to be taken to reduce expenditure. Children are asked to imagine that they are a parent with three children and they have to work out what they are going to get them from...
Snowman challenge
In this Core Maths resource students are given the open-ended task of designing a snowman. Students are given some basic information about the density of different types of snow and some relevant formulae, and are asked to design a ‘life-sized’ snowman and give a full mathematical description of it.
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Christmas tree
An ideal plan for a Christmas themed coding lesson! This plan involves a Christmas tree that has sparkles lighting up as the baubles, but it is also possible to use other Christmas-related ideas (for example Christmas cards) that have the same code.
Divide and conquer
This activity provides a mathematical problem that is solved in a simple way. It relates to the way algorithms are used in search engines and links to problem solving in maths. The context is that of Santa trying to find his socks in one of 1024 boxes, which a clever elf solves for him. Children can then go on to...