Plan an offshore wind farm challenge presentation
Use this real-world challenge presentation to find out about wind farms and stakeholders, before students plan the best location for a new farm.
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Use this resource to learn more about the ‘making and evaluating a biodiesel’ real-world challenge and plan the investigation into your lessons.
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Plan a wind farm stakeholder cards
Use these stakeholder information cards to discover the viewpoints of six people, all concerned about the location of a new offshore wind farm.
Offshore wind farms: What do you know? activity sheet
Students use this activity sheet to record things they already know, and would like to know, about offshore wind farms.
Plan a wind farm map
Simple map showing six potential sites for a new offshore wind farm.
Plan a wind farm skills self-check sheet
A skills self-assessment sheet for students to use after they have completed the 'Plan an offshore wind farm challenge'.
Meet a stakeholder engagement advisor video
Watch Wendy, a stakeholder engagement advisor (who works in offshore wind) at work and find out about the knowledge and skills she needs for success.
Plan a wind farm delivery guide
A delivery guide for teachers giving background to the challenge and providing suggestions for how to use the resources.
Plan a wind farm best location activity sheet
A 4-step activity sheet that supports students as they work together to decide on the best location for a new wind farm.
Plan a wind farm knowledge self-check
Students use this activity sheet to demonstrate what's they've learnt during the challenge.
Meet a stakeholder engagement advisor job card
Inspire your students to think about a future career and link learning about wind energy and electricity to the real-world, with this job-role card.
Hydrogen generation challenge delivery guide
Find out more about the real-world challenge, discover the resources available and use the suggested learning pathway to complete the challenge with your students.
Hydrogen generation knowledge self-check
Students use this activity sheet to demonstrate what's they've learnt during the challenge.
Hydrogen generation skills self-check
A skills self-assessment sheet for students to use after they have completed the' Hydrogen generation challenge'.
Hydrogen generation challenge support sheet
Step-by-step instructions for students to use during the challenge, as they set up an electrolysis cell to produce hydrogen.
Hydrogen generation challenge presentation
With this real-world challenge presentation, students learn about hydrogen and use an electrolysis cell to produce hydrogen themselves.
Meet an energy industry consultant job card
Inspire your students to think about a future career and link learning about electrolysis and hydrogen to the real-world, with this job-role card.
Meet an energy industry consultant video
Watch Edris, an energy industry consultant working on the energy transition, at work and learn about the knowledge and skills he needs for success.
Meet a vehicle mechanic job card
Inspire your students to think about a future career and link learning about electrolysis and hydrogen to the real-world, with this job-role card.
Meet a vehicle mechanic video
Watch Josh, an apprentice vehicle mechanic working on hydrogen buses, at work and find out about the knowledge and skills he needs for success.
Feed our future! Challenge presentation (secondary)
Use this presentation, with video clips presented by Stefan Gates, to recap healthy diets, to discover how our food affects our planet and inspire students to come up with a new food for the future.
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! Delivery guide (secondary)
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.
Daily science energisers (secondary)
Daily 15-min STEM challenges for 11-14 year olds, around the theme of change and adapt; perfect for energising a science week.
Making and evaluating a biodiesel
Use this PowerPoint presentation to guide your students through the real-world challenge, first by gaining the necessary knowledge, then carrying out the evaluation and finally reflecting on their work.
Making and evaluating a biodiesel challenge knowledge self-check
Use this resource for your students to reflect on the knowledge they have built during the Real-world challenge.
Making and evaluating a biodiesel challenge skills self-check
Use this resource for your students to reflect on the skills they have built during the Real-world challenge.
Periodic table challenge interactive
An interactive game helping students develop and test their knowledge of periodic table elements, and their properties.
Biodiversity challenge: My design sheet (secondary)
Students use this activity sheet to record and evaluate their designs and explain their rationale, for their home for nature.
Fashion fixers (secondary): Delivery guide
Find out everything that you need to know, to inspire your students to become fashion fixers with this real-world challenge!
Fashion fixers (secondary): My fashion fixes sheet
Provide each student with this activity sheet so they can describe their own creative vision for how to fix fashion for the future!
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