Science card games and interactives
Give your class some gaming fun and test their learning 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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Feed our future! Poster
Inspire your budding young scientists with potential STEM careers in the food industry and encourage them to complete the Feed our future! challenge.
Feed our future! Challenge presentation (primary)
Use this presentation, with video clips presented by Stefan Gates, to recap healthy diets, to discover how our food affects our planet and inspire pupils to come up with a new food for the future.
Feed our future! Activity sheet (primary)
Pupils use this activity sheet to describe their innovative new future-food.
Feed our future! Delivery guide (primary)
A short guide with curriculum links, and step-by-step instructions for how to deliver the challenge in a 1-hour lesson. Includes ideas for diving deeper, if more time is available.
What is an insect? Poster (4-7)
Use this poster to help pupils understand what makes an insect an insect and to identify insects they might find in their school grounds. Also includes a career connection.
What is an insect? Poster (7-11)
Use this poster to help pupils understand what makes an insect an insect, explore life cycles, and discover why insects are so important in our changing world. Find out about a career linked to insects and simple actions to protect them.
World Ocean Day assembly (7-11)
Use this presentation to celebrate World Ocean Day. Take a quiz about our ocean, discover the issues it’s facing and learn how we can take action to protect it for the future. Also features ocean careers.
Wonders of our ocean poster (7-11)
Build awe and wonder with this amazing ocean facts poster and inspire pupils as they discover new careers linked to protecting the ocean.
Garden plants
Explore garden and wild plants with this poster and quiz pack. Includes plant ID, key questions, feedback, and class discussion prompts.
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Ravi’s garden plants quiz
Use this 10-question quiz to help your pupils learn about plants and to identify familiar garden and wild plants. Contains feedback and questions to promote class discussions.
Name the plants poster
Use this 2-page poster to answer questions including ‘What are garden and wild plants?’ and ‘Is a tree a plant? and to identify familiar plants.
Day and night poster
Use this poster to help your pupils explain day and night and the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky.
Be a materials investigator poster
Use this 2-page poster about materials to explore topic areas such as, properties, and the features of different materials.
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Materials investigators
Learn about the topic of materials and take on a real-life challenge investigating the properties of materials with a materials engineer.
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Material makers challenge
Explore the properties of materials with this hands-on real-world challenge including a range of exciting activities. Encourage your pupils to investigate materials with the Material Makers challenge, led by a real scientist, Anna.
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Spring science hunt (ages 7-11)
Twenty days of fun, curriculum-linked spring and Easter-related science, with quiz questions, daily 10-minute science activities and resources for diving deeper.
Spring science hunt (ages 4-7)
Twenty days of fun, curriculum-linked spring and Easter-related science, with quiz questions, daily 10-minute science activities and resources for diving deeper.
A guide for parents and carers of 4-11 year olds
This useful guide is a great tool for showcasing the best of Energising Futures and how it can be used at home. Parents and carers can discover what science capital is and how they can bring science alive at home.
Careers linked to materials poster
Inspire your pupils to think about potential future careers linked to learning about materials, with this poster.
Meet an architect poster
Inspire your pupils to think about a potential future career as an architect with this poster.
Meet a materials engineer poster
Inspire your pupils to think about a potential future career as a material scientist with this poster.
Meet a materials engineer video (9-11)
Watch Anna, a materials scientist working in the construction industry, describe her job and what inspired her to be become an expert in concrete.
Material investigators presentation
Use this presentation to lead pupils through the challenge, providing step-by-step instructions for investigating the strength of corrugated cardboard planks and designing their own innovative material.
Material investigators: Delivery guide
A brief teacher's guide outlining the challenge background, required equipment, and tips for using the resources effectively. This challenge focuses on 'materials' and provides real-world context for the curriculum topic of 'properties of materials.'
Daily science energisers (primary)
Daily 15-min STEM challenges for 7-11 year olds, around the theme of change and adapt; perfect for energising a science week.
Women and girls in science primary assembly
Use this assembly to showcase varied female scientists of the past and present. Pupils’ stereotypes of scientists will be challenged, whilst they are inspired to think about their own dreams and aspirations.
Celebrating women engineers primary poster
Challenge stereotypes and inspire your pupils with this informative, visual poster celebrating the achievements of women engineers.
Growing into adults (life-cycles) poster
Develop understanding of animal life-cycles with this 2-page poster about how animals grow from babies to adults.