Bad Human Factors Designs
A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors (also known as ergonomics) principles. The site examines why objects are poorly designed and suggests solutions.
Design and Technology Online
This site uses text, pictures and animations to provide useful information on various topics such as packaging, electronics, food, pneumatics and mechanisms.
Karate Cats Maths
Test your maths skills with hundreds of questions based on 8 topics: addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, number and place value, fractions, measurement, shapes, position and direction and statistics.
Talking Textiles
A site which looks at what textiles are.
Design inSite
A site which looks at the characteristics of different products and has excellent information about the composition and properties of materials.
The Royal Mint Teaching Resources
Explore the world of coins, their history, design and manufactures. Each lesson pack, designed for classrooms in England and Wales, comes complete with teachers’ notes, lesson plans, fact files, worksheets and whiteboard resource.
Practical Action Schools Resources
Free STEM resources for teachers include lesson plans, PowerPoints, activities, posters, challenges, images, videos and games all set around global issues including energy, climate change and disaster risk reduction.
All about Animals
An interesting site about ethical issues around keeping animals.
Nature Everywhere
See how you can be involved in helping nature.
McDonald's Education
McDonald’s education provides real-life examples aimed at giving students valuable insight into the world of business, food technology and careers.
