Rochester Bridge Trust Learning about Bridges Education Kit

The Rochester Bridge Trust was founded in 1399 to provide a crossing over the River Medway in Kent.  The Trust still provides free bridges today.  The Trust is passionate about bridge building and wants to encourage young people to find out more about bridges and become as enthusiastic as we are!  

Our...

Light sabers presentation and experiments

Presentation on science of lightsabers and comparing them to lasers and plasma torches. Looking at uses of lasers. Experiments on light and colours

Materials lesson

Notes for talking about materials, instructons sheet and table to complete for materials investigations

What's In My Tray? From Gratnells Learning Rooms

What's In My Tray? is a collection of free practical resources from Gratnells Learning Rooms covering science, outdoor learning, STEM and more.

The What's In My Tray? actviities support and enable curriculum-based practical work both inside and outside of the classroom.

To access more then 100 free...

The Safety Deposit Vault

This is an exercise with complex spreadsheets and mail-merged documents. It is based on an actual implementation in a vaut with over 1500 boxes of different sizes.

The simplified example uses nine boxes of three different sizes, each has the price for annual box rental.

Also recorded are the renters'...

Code and Decode

How to send secret messages to your friends.

Contains full teacher instructions. Uses Basic programming language.

Pupils shoud have completed the Introduction To Computer Programming

Spectroscopy

Make a spectroscope from recycled materials.

Compute Whole Number Pythagoras Triangles

An exercise to compute whole nu,mber Pythagorean triangles.

The project uses the Basic programming language.

Pupils should have completed the exercise Introduction To Computer Programming

Paper Towers and Bridges

Ten kits of a pupil challenge, nuts and bolts provided but you need recycled paper. Kits are available in Coventry and Warwickshire or by arrangeent. Slides available for download free.

There are separate slides for Secondary who are expected to create budgets for their designs, and for primary.

Card Tricks with Maths

Card Tricks. Ten kits of a pupil challenge to discover how two card tricks work. Kits are available in Coventry and Warwickshire or by arrangeent. Slides available for download free.

Two card tricks that requrie maths to explain. Even primary school pupils understood the algebra!