Blogs

If you click on the ‘featured resources’ link at the top of the STEM Community (https://community.stem.org.uk/browse/featuredresources) you’ll find quick access each month to relevant resources from STEM Learning’s e-resource library for upcoming events and celebration days, as well as links to new resources.

I particularly like the new resource ‘Investigating the distribution of one of the world's tiniest trees’ from Birmingham Institute for Forest Research (BIFoR) - https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/542019/investigating-distribution-one-worlds-tiniest-trees. There’s a virtual visit to the mountains of Norway to carry out field work – this would work well with KS4 and KS5 biology groups and you can download data from a transect that includes % cover and a number of abiotic factors. I suggest you have a look at other resources available from BIFoR too – try here: https://canvas.bham.ac.uk/courses/52405/pages/welcome

If you don’t already have a finch beak activity in your KS4 biology SoW then take a look at the Wildscreen Ark Biodiversity and Evolution resource (here: https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/31540/biodiversity-and-evolution-age-14-16)

The Research-2-Practice resources were made in 2020-2021 to provide teachers with quick and easy to access to research. There are 20 tricky topics covered, each one with a summary of the academic science education research, with a lesson plan to show the best way of teaching science based on the findings of the research. https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/542102/research-2-practice-r2p-secondary-collection

You may wish to share the EAL Mathematics resources from the Bell Foundation with your maths department and SENDCO – look here: https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/509923/bell-foundation-eal-mathematics-resources?page=2