Published by the Wellcome Trust, the 'Big Picture' explores issues around biology and medicine.

This issue of the Big Picture, from the Wellcome Trust, looks at the role that food plays not only in human physiology but also in the individual's lives. Food is about so much more than sustenance. Food choice...

This guide has been developed through the STEM Subject Choice and Careers Project. It is designed to help teachers, learners, employers and anyone involved in work experience develop strategies for creating good quality placements for young people age 14–19. The question and answer format has been used to...

Produced in 2015, these resources look specifically at how genes can be altered in plants and how bacteria are central to genetic engineering techniques. Genetically modified (GM) crops offer the potential to help improve food security though this still remains...

Getting started with your SAMHE monitor

This short unboxing video shows you what your SAMHE monitor looks like and how to start getting it set up. For information about how to request a STEM Ambassador, please visit this link...

Mobile app development is an engaging way for students to learn programming and interface design as many do, indeed, "love their smartphone".

This complete learning package teachers the origins and development of the smartphone, helping them to appreciate the amount of technology packed into their pocket. It...

These resources from the Wellcome Trust explore how imaging research has changed the way we look inside one of our most fascinating organs, the brain. ...

This resource contains a shorter and longer version of an assembly which can be used to introduce schools to SAMHE. If your school does not have a monitor, you can use the downloadable presentation below entitled 'Introduction to SAMHE: presentation NO MONITOR'.

SAMHE introductory...

Designed for students who have advanced through Scratch and are ready for additional challenge, this resource explores Build Your Own Blocks (BYOB) as a tool for learning modular programming using procedures. 

After examining, briefly, the history of the computer and the Turing Test as a measure of their...