STEM SUSSEX

Construction Skills

Construction Skills work with school teachers, college lecturers and other partners to help develop and deliver resources and practical support on all areas of the construction industry.  Their aim is to provide you with the resources you need to help promote teaching and learning through construction, as well as keeping young people informed about their construction career options.

The website holds lots of information:

www.citb-constructionskills.co.uk/curriculumcareers/

Construction Skills also runs events in conjunction with SETPOINT Sussex.  See Event Calendar for more information.

Countryside Foundation for Education

Various downloadable resources, including KS3 A Case for the Countryside. Follow the link on the left > Online Resources.

Visit www.countrysidefoundation.org.uk

Crocodile Clips (KS 3 - 5)

As well as their commercial software a great number of free resources have been made available from their website, including eight lesson plans for physics, and more than 60 for chemistry.

Visit www.crocodile-clips.com

Earth Science Education Unit

The material available here was originally available on the Sussex Earth Science Teachers Forum website formerly hosted at Brighton University. We are now making the material available again on an open access basis.

Downloadable teaching material (Post-16) All are in Microsoft word format (.doc)

The Earths Interior AS level Summary Notes (32K)
Fossils and Time AS level test (108K)
Porosity Experiment (28K)
Revision Guide (872K)
Terminology of Folds (32K)
Volcano Presentation exercise (32K)

provided by Mick de Pomerai

Useful Links:

Websites by Topic (100K)
Website links (44K)

For more information relating to the resources here please contact:

Dr. Martin Smith
School of the Environment
University of Brighton
Cockcroft Buidling
Lewes Road
Brighton, BN2 4GJ

Tel: 01273 642265
Email:

Engineering and Technology Board (ETB)

Trying to launch STEM at your school? Trying to get students to think about careers in STEM?  Have a look at the Engineering and Technology Board (ETB) and their related sites.  See: www.etechb.co.uk

There are loads of great resources and cool magazines to inspire students www.technologyhorizons.co.uk. ETB have also launched their annual report on the engineering and technology labour market www.etechb.co.uk. Other sites worth a look are http://www.enginuity.org.uk and the www.scenta.co.uk site, both with resources and career guidance.

Food for Life Partnership

The Food for Life Partnership is a network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food culture.

The Partnership is led by the Soil Association together with the Focus on Food Campaign , Garden Organic and the Health Education Trust . Their goal is to revolutionise school meals, reconnect young people with where their food comes from and inspire families to cook and grow food.

For more information visit: www.foodforlife.org.uk

Funding opportunities for schools science projects

At the ASE Annual Conferences for 2006 and 2007, the Royal Society joined together with the Institute of Physics, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), Gatsby Technical Education Projects (GTEP), Rolls-Royce, SETNET and Wellcome Trust, to present a selection of funding schemes available to teachers to carry out science projects in schools.

To find out more about the Royal Society Partnership Grants scheme and other funding sources, download a summary of the joint workshop, ‘Money, money, money!’ which also includes information on where to look for funding for other types of project.

Please note that deadlines for funding may have lapsed since this document was created; to find out more about individual funding bodies, you should contact them directly.

Download: ’Money, money, money!’ 2008 (250k .pdf)

Global Educational Outreach (GEO) Website

The Global Educational Outreach (GEO) initiative uses new technology to provide outstanding Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) teaching material.

It is a highly flexible medium enabling a wide range of different educational approaches to be explored and it is particularly useful for SET teachers who will find valuable downloadable teaching resource material created by the best science and technology experts and educators.

A key aim is to catalyse the creation of a global network of participating sites catering to the local and global need for much improved SET education.

The site is free. The modules are streamed from our servers. Presentations can be provided on CD by request. Powerpoint presentations can be downloaded and used in teaching modules.

Visit: http://www.geoset.info/home.html

Honda - Schools of Dreams

Thinking Skills workshops sponsored by Honda

The programme is designed to address ‘thinking skills’ curriculum reqts at KS3, but can also be used at KS2 and KS4. Honda are funding a pilot of 50+ schools in the SE, to receive a 2-day session for pupils and teachers, plus teaching resources – the idea is that this will enable teachers to cascade the programme out within their whole school afterwards & use the techniques across the curriculum (resources provided include a booklet, DVD and other materials).

Find out more at - www.schoolofdreams.co.uk

IET Faraday

The Institution of Engineering and Technology launches the IET Faraday this month as a year-long educational initiative for pupils in key stages three and four.  The aim is to enthuse young people in the world of science, engineering and technology. 

The IET Faraday is available to all schools as a programme of specially made films, online games, challenges, live events and an interactive website.  Action packed FaraDay events are to be held during National Science and Engineering Week at incredible venues across the country.  Involvement is free of charge.

This year the theme for the IET Faraday is ‘technology for life’ and will explore the technological innovations and developments in healthcare engineering.  Our resources explore the themes of water, materials and prosthetics, telemedicine and robotics and biomedical signalling and highlight engineering’s vital contribution to society.

Vist the website: http://faraday.theiet.org