As a pioneering world leader with 24 main sites employing 13,760 people in the UK, we are dedicated to helping enrich and enhance teaching and learning and to nurturing engineering talent for the future. Here you will find curriculum lesson plans, interactive resources and insights into STEM careers.
As a pioneering world leader with 24 main sites employing 13,760 people in the UK, we are dedicated to helping enrich and enhance teaching and learning and to nurturing engineering talent for the future. Here you will find curriculum lesson plans, interactive resources and insights into STEM careers.
The Siemens Six for Six portfolio of resources features six episodes of learning for six core modules aimed at students aged 7-16.
Each Six for Six module features six complementary resources aligned to curriculum requirements for STEM subjects using real-world examples of Siemens technology, engineering or manufacturing principles as basis for learning.
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Module 1 ‘Understanding the human body’ focuses on using and interpreting images to understand systems such as digestion and skeletal in the human body.
Module 2 ‘Living in a world made by STEM’ explores the influence of science and technology on the world around us.
Module 3 ‘Energy for thrills’ explores the topic of energy transfer using rollercoasters and electric busses as real world examples.
Module 4 ‘Power to the people’ explores energy and electricity. Our lives in the 21st century rely on a supply of secure and cheap energy. Can we achieve this with out damaging the environment?
Module 5 ‘Getting around’ explores the technology behind our transportation system, with a focus on electrification, automation and digitalisation.
Module 6 ‘Building the things we need’ focuses on the manufacturing skills that are crucial to providing the products we need but they also provide jobs and develop skills. Manufacturing uses scientific ideas, logical thinking and an understanding of the wider world.
Find more curriculm linked resources at www.siemens.co.uk/education.
The Siemens Insight Programme (SIP) is a self-driven, self-learning programme that allows students to explore the world of Siemens, Engineering and Technology, as well as developing core skills such as communication, problem solving and creativity.
Packed full of fun activities, media and quizzes, the Siemens Insight Programme is fantastic for KS4 students who want to learn more about engingeering and undertake an independent project.
SIP is made up of 8 modules, each set out in a downloadable powerpoint presentation. Work through these modules and record your efforts in the SIP Student Portfolio, which can be completed online or printed off.
Try our new Cybersecurity Challenge and help catch the cyber criminal! Designed to support computing for students aged 12+ these resources are an interactive way of learning about keeping yourself and others safe online.
Our Decarbonisation resource is an immersive 3D environment which encourages students to explore an Earth like planet , identifying climate disasters and analyse their causes.
This is the accompanying teaching resource for the game which explains how best to use it in a learning environment.
Find the game itself here: https://decarbonisationgame.co.uk/
STEM and Sustainability themed Christmas Quiz for KS3 students.
Enjoy this short and fun Christmas themed quiz complete with questions relating to the KS3 Science and Maths curriculum, and sustainability.
Answer book is also included.
Formula for Thrills Interactive Game uses the context of a theme park to show how mathematics is used in the real world. The supporting teachers notes and activities for this Interactive Game are designed to complement the KS4 Mathematics and Physics National Curriculum.
Learning Objectives:
To understand the conservation of energy in a closed system.
To calculate the amount of gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy at various positions on a rollercoaster.
Find more curriculum linked Interactive Games on www.siemens.co.uk/education.
KS3 Physics ‘Motion and Forces’ student and teacher resources. Learn about the forces, motion, aerodynamics and the four forces of flight with helpful explanations and activities, as well as a design a parachute activity. The teachers resource provides suggestions about how to build a lesson focused around the student worksheet.
Siemens Education’s activity ‘Girls in STEM’ was developed with support of the PSHE Association and aims to support teachers and parents of KS2 students to nurture their child’s careers ambitions.
The lessons are also designed to help address the gender imbalance and the drop-off in interest in STEM subjects and career choice in primary school through the PSHE curriculum.
Lesson content is aspirational and realistic, helping to raise pupils’ awareness of the wide range of opportunities available to them in their future careers, while drawing on real-life examples and case studies that reflect a range of skills and abilities.
Learning Objectives
To explore what is meant by ‘gender’.
To learn about the skills and attributes needed for the world of work.
To consider how positive role models may influence my life and possible future career choices (including STEM careers).
To explore personal aspirations and career choices
Find more curriculum linked resources at www.siemens.co.uk/education.
The Life without STEM Interactive Game and supporting teachers note resources have been developed to aid learning in KS2. The interative game uses five scenarios to provide teachers with a topical and engaging tool for exploring how ideas, developments and discoveries in STEM subjects have changed and improved the world we live in.
Learning Objectives:
To understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future.
To investigate and analyse a range of existing products and understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world.
Find more curriculum linked Interactive Games at www.siemens.co.uk/education.
These resources contain a series of student activities and a supporting PowerPoint lesson plan for the KS4 activity ‘Inspired Bus Company’. This activity is designed to give students an insight into the challenges faced by bus designers when designing contemporary buses for urban environments. Students are challenged to understand user needs and create innovative solutions whilst focusing on environmental and technical factors.
For more curriculum linked resources and early careers advice go to www.siemens.co.uk/education.
These resources contain a Scheme of Work, a Student Support Sheet and a supporting lesson plan for the KS4 activity ‘Keeping it Lean & Mean&’. This activity is designed to give students an insight into the world of efficient production: reducing waste, controlling stock and different methods of assembly.
These resources contain a Scheme of Work designed to complement the KS3 National Science Curriculum. This activity is designed to give students an insight into the subject of hearing loss, how it occurs and the effects it might have. Students will have the opportunity to design their own innovative hearing aid that meets set requirements.
Learning Objectives:
Developing a sense of scale and proportion with regard to measurement of frequency and loudness and how these can be represented graphically.
Understanding the process of hearing and the use of loudness and frequencies to compare sounds.
Identifying the key factors in a design brief and using a block diagram to represent a system.
Find more curriculum linked Interactive Games on www.siemens.co.uk/education.
These resources contain a Scheme of Work, a Student Support Sheet and a supporting ppt lesson plan for the KS3 activity ‘Picture This&’. This activity is designed to give students an insight into the subject of ultrasound technology and how it utilized for images. Students will be able to explain how such images are used to aid in medical diagnostics.
These resources contain a student activity, a student support sheet and a supporting ppt lesson plan for the KS2 activity ‘Let there be light’. This activity is designed to give students an insight into electricity, how it began and its importance and development in the modern world.
Overall learning objectives:
Understand how creative thinking and scientific ideas can be harnessed to solve problems and improve quality of life
Understand how natural resources can be used to provide useful services
Apply ideas about generating and using electricity to powering circuits
These resources contain a Scheme of Work, a Student Support Sheet and a supporting ppt lesson plan for the KS3 activity ‘I can see clearly now’. This activity is designed to give students an insight into the subject of low energy light bulbs and their environmental effect in social areas and in household settings.
These resources contain a student activity and a supporting ppt lesson plan for the KS4 activity ‘Ringing True&’. This activity is designed to give students an insight into the subject of train wheel bearings and the key features of the RailBAM process. Students will learn the cost implications of maintenance to a business as well as using technical skills to solve problems.
‘Inside The Human Body’ explores how MRI scanners are used to produce medical images. The activity pack was designed to complement the KS4 Physics National Curriculum and includes a scheme of work, student support sheet and supporting PowerPoint.
Learning Objectives:
Explain how MRI scanners produce images.
Apply their understanding of waves and particles to this application.
Describe typical uses of MRI images.
Find more curriculum linked resources and early careers advice at www.siemens.co.uk/education.
These resources contain a student activity and a supporting ppt lesson plan for the KS4 activity ‘Green Power&’. This activity requires students to apply concepts of energy transfer and sustainability to understand and evaluate a system. Students will produce and modify designs to meet a design brief and will understand the features of a Greenpower Challenge Car.
Meet KB2 and REG they work at the Keadby2 power station and help to power over 840,000 homes in Lincolnshire. This bundle of activities is designed to meet the electricity topic in the KS2 national curriculum using the context of the Keadby2 power station.
Bring gamification to your classroom by encouraging students to play the Dress the Site Worker interactive game, which introduces students to different careers in STEM and ways in which Keadby2 employees keep themselves safe.
Learning objectives:
Identify common appliances that run on electricity.
Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts,including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers.
Identify sources of renewable and non-renewable energy.
For more curriculum linked resources go to www.siemens.co.uk/education.
These resources contain a student activity and a supporting ppt lesson plan for the KS4 activity ‘Totally in Control’. This activity is designed to give students an insight into the subject of systems and controls and how sequences of commands can be used to run equipment.