Follow this easy bunting activity, designing your bunting and printing your own designs with potato prints. Suitable for all primary aged children, create flags with your class or at home and celebrate in style, whilst allowing your children to develop their knowledge and skills in design and technology. This...

Designed to be accessible for all primary aged children, this activity guides you and your pupils through the simple steps to design and make their own recipe book. This could be carried out as part of a design and technology or maths lesson, and is simple to follow, making it suitable for learning at home and in...

In this classroom activity learners will use the inspiration from a well-known book to make a mask representing one of the main characters.

This teaching resource could be used as a main lesson activity, to support pupils’ engagement in literacy. It could also be used as a focussed task to teach pupils about...

This resource supports mathematical understanding by making representations of characters from books using basic shapes.

Pupils will design a two-dimensional image for character from a book, using basic shapes. This teaching resource could be used as a one-off lesson activity to reinforce understanding of...

This is one of a series of resources from the IET designed around the theme of the future of flight with the purpose of developing pupils knowledge and skills in engineering and mathematics. In this activity, pupils will make a balloon rocket and carry out timed tests to calculate the velocity of the balloon. The...

In this resource learners will explore why scientists are engaged in research at the bottom of the Antarctic and Arctic Oceans. They will understand the importance of collecting samples of organisms...

Designed to be accessible for all primary aged children, this activity guides you and your pupils through the simple steps to design, measure, mix and bake puff-pastry pizza whirls. Suitable for ages four to eleven, this could be carried out as part of a design and technology or maths lesson, and is simple to...

This cross curricular resource explores the difference that growing pumpkins can make to the lives of people living in flood affected regions in Bangladesh. It includes finding out about Bangladesh and its people and ways to address poverty, investigating the pumpkin lifecycle and seed germination, designing and...

Aimed at primary aged students, this STEM project provides a real-life context to explore the health and environmental problems faced by the 3 billion people globally who cook on open fires or traditional cooking stoves. Children are introduced to a family in Nepal and learn about indoor air pollution from their...

In this lesson aimed at lower primary, children find out about the uses of light bulbs, other than providing light. Children work scientifically observing, comparing and contrasting the features of different light bulbs and sorting them into groups according to similarities and differences. They then work as ‘light...

In this activity children are introduced to a challenge: setting up a yoghurt cafe. They then learn to name and recognise a range of 2D shapes and then use their learning to design a logo for their business.

This is the first in a series, which involves lessons which look at healthy eating, D&T parts of...

In this activity children learn to name a variety of fruit plants and trees and label their parts. They then explore a range of fruit seeds and describe their properties using comparative language.

This is the second in a series of activities where children work towards an end goal of setting up a yoghurt...

In this activity children think about eating healthily and the nutrients included in each food group. Using this learning, they are then challenged to use a range of seasonal fruit to design a food flag yoghurt that they can sell in their yoghurt cafés.

This is the third in a series of activities where...

In this activity children create their fruit flag yoghurt that they have designed, using the ingredients that they have chosen. As well as practising cutting, measuring and mixing skills children can apply maths skills in a real-life context. This is the fourth in a series of activities where children work towards...

In this activity children identify and name the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense. They explore their five senses before using them to evaluate their yoghurt dessert.

This is the fifth in a series of activities where children work towards an end goal...