This collection of resources support learning about STEM subjects using the context of exploring Mars. Using the context of the ExoMars mission, activities link to areas of the curriculum including: science, design and technology, and computing. There are...

The activities in this resource aim to help children to try a range of new fruits, to understand that eating a balanced diet can keep us healthy and to perform simple food skills safely such as peeling, cutting with a knife and mixing ingredients to make a fruit salad. This session contains a lesson plan, advice...

From the British Nutrition Foundation, in partnership with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB...

Through this challenge pupils will develop their understanding of how food waste contributes to climate change. Pupils will have the opportunity to identify potential problems or areas where an invention could help reduce the amount of food we waste, before designing their own invention and evaluating and...

From the British Nutrition Foundation, in partnership with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB...

In this activity children to grow an edible plant and look after their plant by explaining what it needs to grow well.

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Developed for use in Early Years, these resources link to work on the areas of physical development, understanding the world and communicating ideas, they also aid vocabulary development and working as part of a group. The activities and games explore food preferences and what constitutes a healthy balanced diet....

In this activity children make a compostable plant box and then plant and grow a seed that can later be grown outside. Once children have planted their seeds they can carry out an observation over time to see what happens to their planted seed. They could also go on to investigate what a plant needs to grow in a...

This activity, created for use by teachers and/or Environment Agency STEM Ambassadors with the help of a teacher, has been designed to make pupils realise how much water they are wasting. Pupils will carry out an investigation where they...

This guide  supports primary schools in planning and running their own Space Week, providing a wealth of ideas for activities for children in EYFS and primary schools as well as links to many high-quality resources to support teachers in planning a week of engaging learning experiences for their pupils. The guide...

A series of resources designed to explore the future of flight and the aviation industry. Resources develop pupils knowledge and skills in engineering, technology, mathematics and science. 

This set of inquiry-based teaching resources, created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, help teachers deliver inspiring lessons about plant science and the environment. These are a sample of a larger collection that are part of Endeavour, an extensive set of curriculum...

This resource focusses on making leaf prints and developing knowledge of the main parts that make up a leaf. Trees and their leaves are an important part of our natural environment, this interactive and practical activity allows children to use their science knowledge to better understand them and the environment...

The activities provided in the Little Inventors collection aim to inspire children to use their imaginations to help them to think up, and draw original, funny, fantastical or practical invention ideas with no limits, to solve a range of perceived problems from food waste to those experienced in the Victorian Era....

In this activity, which links to mathematics and science children create a life-size paper model of Dippy’s thigh bone. They measure and record the length of their own thigh bones and compare them to the length of Dippy’s from the life-size paper model. Children then compare their heights to the length of Dippy’s...