This resource offers a real life context for the Year 6 maths curriculum by giving pupils the chance to calculate profit and solve multi step problems. Throughout this session pupils will revise and apply formal calculation methods when deciding on a selling price for their dishes and they will also need to...

This resource offers a real life context for Year 6 pupils to solve problems involving area and perimeter while designing a restaurant floor plan. Pupils will apply their maths learning to design their restaurant seating area. The session builds in the chance to use online shopping websites to calculate the cost of...

This resource supports the electricity requirement of the Year 6 national curriculum supporting pupils to associate the brightness of a lamp with the number and voltage of cells in a circuit, to use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram and to design and make a lighting circuit for a...

This resource supports the design technology curriculum by allowing Year 6 pupils to produce a balanced meal, prepare vegetables safely and present food in an appealing way. In this session pupils will plan and follow their chosen adapted recipe to make the balanced dish from their menu that they previously...

This resource provides a brief overview of a STEM project which supports Year 6 pupils working in groups to set up a themed restaurant business and design, make and market a range of dishes that feature a British food as their main ingredient. This project provides a range of opportunities to enhance Year 6...

The Young People's Book Prize aims to promote literacy in young people and to inspire them to read about science. It also supports the writing of excellent, accessible STEM books for under-14s.

These resources offer a series of activities to use alongside the six books which have been shortlisted for the Young People’s Book Prize 2021.The activities include investigations and experiments related to various topics, such as plants, biodiversity and the environment, inventions and inventors, space and the...

These resources offer a series of activities to use alongside the six books which have been shortlisted for the Young People’s Book Prize 2022. The activities include investigations and experiments related to various topics, such as materials and structures, biodiversity, micro-organisms, water and food waste as...

These resources offer a series of activities to use alongside the six books which have been shortlisted for the Young People’s Book Prize 2023. The activities include investigations and experiments related to various topics, such as our bodies, viruses and bacteria, invertebrates and space, as well as various...

A CREST investigation produced by Practical Action, in collaboration with the British Science Association, for primary pupils. 

Students find out  how farmers in Bangladesh can earn more money for their family by turning milk into yoghurt.  They go on to make a range of different flavoured yoghurts...