Resources by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

1G, 2G, 3G, 4G

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), introduces students to the science behind communication technology, giving them an understanding of some of the vocabulary and concepts used. The handout includes a series of illustrations and...

3D shape nets

Nets are used to make almost all forms of card packaging, ranging from simple cereal boxes to display boxes with clear polymer ‘windows’, to display stands. In this activity children consider how 3D packaging may be made from a 2D net, then make card models of a pyramid and a cube from nets. They may combine...

Acoustic Engineering 1

This starter activity has been inspired by the Sound Design...

Acoustic Engineering 2

This activity asks students to use the CAFEQUE (Cost, Aesthetics, Function, Ergonomics, Quality, User, Environment) principles to analyse Bang & Olufsen earphones.

A link is given to a case study of the marketing...

Acoustics engineer

This video shows a brief interview with Daryl who describes how his love of problem solving and learning how things work led to him becoming an engineer.

Addition and subtraction worksheet

In this STEM activity, pupils will solve three addition and subtraction problems, with the answers giving the digits needed to crack the code to a safe. This activity allows pupils to further their abilities to add and subtract numbers with up to three numbers mentally and using formal columnar methods and to solve...

Aerodynamics in Action

In this activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), students explore the basic principles of aerodynamics by looking at familiar products that have been designed with speed in mind and identifying features common to these products....

Aerodynamics Timeline

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), challenges students to put images of cars and aeroplanes in chronological order, to explain how they made their decision and describe how the products relate directly to developments in science and...

Aerospace engineer challenge

This challenge provides a STEM activity day in which teams of children work together to design an aeroplane and then construct a transporter to move it to the next stage of...

Aesthetics and design: colour and feelings

The engineers behind the Watt Nightclub in Rotterdam turn the energy created by clubbers on the dance-floor into power for the lighting. There is even a giant battery to monitor the energy and encourage the crowd to dance even more.