We provide a range of free, and low-cost STEM resources for schools and further education. Our resources include theory presentations, activity sheets, information fact files, and informative posters for your classroom.
We provide a range of free, and low-cost STEM resources for schools and further education. Our resources include theory presentations, activity sheets, information fact files, and informative posters for your classroom.
A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at geological time. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Explore how evidence from rock strata can tell us about the history of the Earth.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 45 mins
27 slides covering:
• Time
• Rock Records
• Dating Rocks
• Relative Dating
• The Principle of Uniformitarianism
• The Principle of Original Horizontality
• The Principle of Superposition
• Principle of Cross Cutting
• The Principle of Inclusion
• Principal of Faunal Succession
• Fossils
• Relative Dating
• Absolute Dating
• Geological Time
• Precambrian
• Cretaceous Period
• The End of the Cretaceous Period
• Quaternary Period
This group of resources contains all you need for a lesson or set of lessons on food webs; presentation, activities sheet with multiple activities, information fact file and assessment.
The presentation is suitable for KS3 looking at food webs. The presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Presentation Learning Objective(s):
Identify how matter flows through food webs.
Identify how energy flows through food webs.
Main Skills: Extract information, interpret diagrams, demonstrate understanding and apply knowledge.
Duration: Approximately 30 mins
18 slides covering:
• Interconnected Food Chains
• Food Webs
• Interrelationships
• Food Chain and Food Web Stability
• Energy Flow and Food Webs
• The Recycling of Energy
• The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
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Activity Learning Objective(s):
Describe producer/consumer, predator/prey and parasite/host relationships in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
Main Skills: Research, extract information, interpret written text, apply knowledge and present information.
Duration: Approximately 45 mins
The Activities Sheet provides a range of activities for students to enhance their knowledge of food webs by putting it into practice. The activities cover:
• Terrestrial Ecosystem Food Web
• Marine Ecosystem Food Web
• Fresh Water Ecosystem Food Web
• Food Web Research
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Assessment Sheet - Word Document based assessment includes questions that students should be able to answer directly from the presentation, or by applying the information from the presentation.
The Teachers Guide provides the correct answers and solutions to the activities and questions in the assessment.
A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the integumentary system. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Investigate the components that make up the integumentary system.
Investigate the function of the integumentary system.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 45 mins
27 slides covering:
• The Skin
• The Structure of the Skin
• The Epidermis
• The Layers of the Epidermis
• Keratin
• The Cells of the Stratum Corneum
• The Dermis
• Subcutaneous Layer
• Hair
• Nails
• The Functions of the Integumentary System
• The Dermis and Thermoregulation
• Sweating
• Functions of Hair and Nails
A presentation suitable for Grades 6-8 looking at Earth’s energy balance. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Explore the concept of the Earth’s energy balance.
Recognize how changes in the Earth’s Energy Balance affect the global climate.
Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams, and graphs.
Duration: Approximately 45 mins
32 slides covering:
• Energy
• Energy Balance
• Atmosphere Gases
• The Greenhouse Effect
• Upsetting the Earth’s Energy Balance
• Radiative Forcings
• Earth’s Energy Balance
• Radiative Forcings - The Sun
• Radiative Forcings - Atmospheric Aerosols
• Radiative Forcings - Volcanoes
• Radiative Forcings - Greenhouse Gases
• Radiative Forcings - Surface Albedo
• Forcings and Feedback
• Feedback and Water
• Earth’s Energy Balance
A presentation most suitable for KS3 looking at diet. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Explore how good nutrition is important for good health.
Explore the major food groups that are needed in the diet for good health.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 30 mins
28 slides covering:
• Nutrition
• Carbohydrates
• Lipids
• Proteins
• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Dietary Fibre
• Water
• Balanced Diet
• Recommended Intake
• Food Labels
• Energy
• Food Pyramids
A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at sorting and filtering in spreadsheets. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Identify how sorting and filtering can be used to find data in spreadsheets.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 30 mins
18 slides covering:
• Sorting
• Filtering
A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at composite materials. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Explore the benefits, types and examples of composite materials.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 30 mins
23 slides covering:
• Composite Materials
• The Matrix
• Types of Composite
• Laminar Composites
• Particulate Composites
• Cermets
• Electrical Contacts
• Fibre Reinforced Composites
• Glass Reinforced Plastic
• Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic
A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the integumentary system. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Investigate the components that make up the integumentary system.
Investigate the function of the integumentary system.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 45 mins
27 slides covering:
• The Skin
• The Structure of the Skin
• The Epidermis
• The Layers of the Epidermis
• Keratin
• The Cells of the Stratum Corneum
• The Dermis
• Subcutaneous Layer
• Hair
• Nails
• The Functions of the Integumentary System
• The Dermis and Thermoregulation
• Sweating
• Functions of Hair and Nails
A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at distribution of natural resources. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Explore the distribution of mineral, energy and groundwater resources.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 45 mins
26 slides covering:
• Mineral Resources
• Ore Deposits
• Volcanic Processes
• Hydrothermal Processes
• Sedimentary Processes
• Copper Mountains
• Metal Resources
• Energy Resources
• Coal
• Oil and Natural Gas
• Non-Renewable Resources
• Finding New Resources
• Water
• The Aral Sea
A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at the Earth’s Atmosphere. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Explore the composition of Earth’s atmosphere.
Explore how atmospheric conditions influence the weather.
Explore how natural processes and human activities cause changes in the atmosphere.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 45 mins
39 slides covering:
• Composition of the Atmosphere
• Air Pressure
• Layers of the Atmosphere
• The Troposphere
• The Stratosphere
• The Meosphere
• The Thermosphere
• Weather
• Wind
• The Water Cycle
• Local Weather
• Changes in the Atmosphere
• Human Activities
• Pollution and Health
• Protecting Air Quality
A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at thermodynamic laws. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Explore the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 30 mins
23 slides covering:
• Energy
• Heat and Work
• First Law of Thermodynamics
• Heat Engines
• Gas Turbines
• Efficiency
• Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Second Law Example (Entropy)
• Second Law Example (Entropy)
• Entropy
A presentation suitable for KS3/KS4 looking at ‘Using a Multimeter’. The presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Identify how to use a digital multimeter to measure DC voltage and resistance, and to test for continuity
Main Skills: Apply knowledge, extract information and interpret written text.
Duration: 30 mins
20 slides covering:
• Digital Multimeter Features
• Range Selector
• Test Leads
• Measuring DC Voltage
• Testing for Continuity
• Testing the Continuity of a Wire
• Testing the Continuity of a Switch
• Testing the Continuity of a Fuse
• Measuring Resistance
• Measuring the Resistance of a Lamp
Assessment Sheet - Word Document based assessment includes questions that students should be able to answer directly from the presentation, or by applying the information from the presentation.
The Assessment Sheet Teachers Guide provides the correct answers and solutions to questions in the assessment.
The Periodic Table is a list of all the different elements. The elements are categorised into groups that have similar properties. The elements are listed in order of their atomic number. This is the number of protons in the nucleus of each atom.
The atomic mass of the most abundant isotope of each element is also shown on the table.
The elements are grouped as Alkali Metals, Alkaline Earth Metals, Transition Metals, Holgens and Nobel Gases.
The table shows the symbol, element name, atomic number, atomic symbol and realtive atomic mass.
This poster contains a collection of commonly used electronic circuit symbols and their meanings.
Circuit symbols may differ only slightly but their intended meanings can be very different. There are two standards of symbols that you may encounter, ANSI/IEEE and IEC - both variants have been shown so that you can see the differences.
The symbols include Resitors, Capacitors, Diodes, Transistors, Switches, Output Devices, Logic Gates and Basic Circuit Symbols.
A presentation suitable for Grades 9-12 looking at circular motion. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Analyse accelerated motion in two dimensions using circular examples.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams and perform calculations.
Duration: Approximately 30 mins
23 slides covering:
• Acceleration
• Uniform Circular Motion
• Average Velocity
• Direction of Centripetal Acceleration
• Magnitude of Centripetal Acceleration
• Centripetal Acceleration and Rotation
A presentation suitable for KS5 looking at photosynthesis. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Explore the biochemistry of photosynthesis.
Investigate the factors that can limit the rate of photosynthesis.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams, understand chemical formulas.
Duration: Approximately 60 mins
57 slides covering:
• Plants as Energy Converters
• The Photosynthesis Equation
• Where Does Photosynthesis Occur?
• Structure of a Chloroplast
• Photosynthesis as Two Groups of Reactions
• How the Energy is Used
• Light Harvesting
• The Chloroplast Pigments
• How the Pigments Work Together
• The Photosystems
• The Two Stages of Photosynthesis
• The Hill Reaction
• The Calvin Cycle
• The Light Dependent Reaction
• Photophosphorylation
• Thylakoids and ATP Synthase
• Cyclic Photophosphorylation
• Non-cyclic Photophosphorylation
• The Products of Water Splitting
• The Light Independent Stage
• The Most Abundant Enzyme in the World!
• Using ATP and NADPH
• The Fate of Triose Phosphate
• Limiting Factors of Photosynthesis
• Light as a Limiting Factor
• Carbon Dioxide as a Limiting Factor
• Temperature as a Limiting Factor
A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at the basic functions of word processing. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Identify some of the functions of Microsoft Word.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 30 mins
14 slides covering:
• The Interface
• Typing Text
• The Ribbon
• File Commands
• Saving
• Printing
A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at the classification of materials. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Explore the main groups used in the classification of materials.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 30 mins
24 slides covering:
• Metals
• Ferrous Metals
• Non-Ferrous Metals
• Alloys
• Polymers
• Ceramics
• Organic Materials
• Composite Materials
A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at non-ferrous metals. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation.
Learning Objective(s):
Recognise the range and characteristics of non-ferrous metals.
Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams.
Duration: Approximately 30 mins
25 slides covering:
• Alloys
• Copper
• Aluminium
• Aluminium Alloys
• Titanium
• Nickel
• Refractory Metals
• Zinc
• Tin
The resistance of a resistor is indicated using a system of coloured bands on the component.
This poster shows the colour code bands and the values that they represent.
4 and 5 band resistor colour code systems are both covered on this poster.
Ohm's Law is also shown on this poster.