Secondary science challenges
From designing electric vehicles to investigating garden wildlife, our hands-on tasks will inspire every budding detective, designer, and curious explorer.
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Science card games and interactives
Give your learners some gaming fun and find out what they've learned this year, with these curriculum-linked games and quizzes
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Primary science challenges
From designing electric vehicles to investigating garden wildlife, our hands-on tasks will inspire every budding detective, designer, and curious explorer.
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Fashion fixers challenge: Primary
This real-world challenge dives into the world of fast fashion and its environmental impact. The perfect range of activities for engaging pupils in conversations around sustainability, science and the choices we make every day.
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Design an electric vehicle challenge
A real-life electric vehicle field service engineer and a data analyst guide pupils through the basic science of circuits and electric vehicles before they take on a real-life challenge to design an innovative electric vehicle of their own.
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Design an electric helicopter
A step-by-step series of videos that uses knowledge from electricity and forces to build an electric helicopter from easily accessible materials.
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Biodiversity challenge (primary)
Learn about biodiversity and why it is important; explore how to improve biodiversity and use all the acquired knowledge to design a wild area.
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Fashion fixers (primary): My fashion fixes sheet
Provide each pupil with this activity sheet so they can describe their own creative vision for how to fix fashion for the future!
Fashion Fixers (primary): Diamond nine
Pupils use this diamond nine ranking structure to decide which fashion fixes are the most important for a sustainable future.
Fashion Fixers (primary): Where clothes come from
Use this 'Where do clothes come from?' activity sheet when pupils look at clothes labels and find the countries where our clothes are made.
Fashion fixers(primary): Lesson
This presentation explains the impacts the fashion industry has on the environment, and inspires pupils with innovations that are fixing fashion.
Fashion fixers challenge (primary): Delivery guide
A three-page guide with a summary of the challenge, timings, how to use the resources, curriculum links plus entry and prize information.
Biodiversity challenge: My design sheet (primary)
Pupils use this activity sheet to record their designs and explain how they have come up with their idea for a home for nature.
Biodiversity in my community sheet (primary)
Pupils use this activity sheet as they research biodiversity in their local community and come up with ideas for their own home for nature
Design an electric vehicle self-check
A skills and knowledge self-assessment sheet for pupils to use after they have completed the 'Design an electric vehicle challenge'.
Design an electric vehicle delivery guide
A delivery guide for teachers giving background to the challenge and providing suggestions for how to use the resources.
Design an electric vehicle challenge presentation
Use this presentation to introduce this real-world challenge and inspire pupils to design their own, new electric vehicle that matches customer needs.
Design an electric vehicle car cards
Pupils use these cards to develop their knowledge of electric cars, to match cars to customer needs and gather data to answer questions.
Design an electric vehicle activity sheet
Step-by-step activity sheet for pupils to record customer information, features and diagrams for their own electric vehicle design.
Electric helicopters real examples
A presentation with photos and a video clip showing a variety of designs for real electric helicopters.
Electric helicopter planning sheet
A structured sheet to support pupils as they plan their electric helicopters.
Electric helicopter self-check
A skills and knowledge self-assessment sheet for pupils to complete after they have designed, made and evaluated their electric helicopters.
Electric helicopter materials and forces activity sheet
Label helicopter parts, identify forces acting on a helicopter and decide on the best materials for different parts, using this activity sheet.
Electric helicopter circuits activity sheet
Label the components of a model helicopter circuit and interpret circuit diagrams using this activity sheet.
Electric helicopter animation
Can you make an electric helicopter with a rotor that switches on and off? Use this animation to introduce this challenge to pupils.
Electricity and batteries
Discover the science of electricity, link learning to the real-world of electric vehicles and inspire pupils with people in real careers.
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