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Innovation Challenge - Session 4 - Employability Skills
Session 4 of the Innovation Challenge is: Employability Skills
This takes a closer look at the eight essential employability skills identified by employers.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to:
• Understand the eight essential employability skills as defined by the...
Innovation Challenge - Session 9 - Who do you think you are?
Session 9 of the Innovation Challenge is: Who do you think you are?
In this session students will understand the importance of a company or product name, what a target audience is and the use of promotional tools.
Learning outcomes
Students will:
• Create a business...
The main source of information and guidance for the 10 sessions that you will run with your students during the Innovation Challenge can be found in the Teacher Toolkit.
There are lots of activities included in the...
Innovation Challenge - Teacher Guidance
Innovation is all around us; every day businesses are set up and new products or services created. Companies House states that around 500,000 new businesses are registered every year in the UK, with an average of 30,000 new products launched.
At the bottom of this page, you can download the Innovation...
Investigating teachers’ use of information about cutting edge research
In this small-scale scoping study, the questions around whether and how teachers of STEM subjects access information about cutting edge research to inform their classroom practice, and how this impacts on the students they teach, was explored.
This study supports STEM Learning’s aims to explore the effective...
Is there witchcraft and wizardry in the real world?
You may think that magic and spells only exist in your favourite books and movies. But can we make magic in the real world? This resource investigates how you can use science to make things change colour and state, or even disappear.
The activities are introduced with a quick objective and a preparation...
Key Principles of a STEM Club
What defines a successful STEM Club?
The STEM Clubs Programme supported by the Gatsby Foundation carried out research with schools across the UK and with STEM organisations to identify key principles that all STEM clubs should aim to achieve.
Enabling a STEM club to be supportive of...
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Laser cooling
Lasers can be used to heat things up, and also to cool them down. Using carefully tuned lasers, scientists in the UK quantum technology hubs are able to slow atoms down to just a few centimetres per...
Lights
In this resource students will carry out experiments with prisms, polarising film and 3D cinema glasses to explain some of the interesting properties of light and their applications.
Curriculum links include refractive index, total internal reflection, polarisation