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.
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.
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 Barefoot Programme
The Barefoot Programme supports primary educators with the confidence, knowledge, skills and resources to teach computer science.It includes FREE high-quality resources, lesson plans and local CPD workshops.
Design a Talking Cat
Design a talking cat by choosing how it looks and sounds. Imagine it's for show and tell. There are audio instructions.
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.
Energising Futures Secondary Resources
The Energising Futures programme is designed to specifically increase young people’s understanding and enjoyment of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Lots of great free secondary school resources!
Nature Everywhere
See how you can be involved in helping nature.
