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.
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Interactive Game is Siemens Education’s most popular online resource. The supporting teachers notes and activities for this Interactive Game are designed to complement the KS2 Science National Curriculum. Use this interactive game to help students discover more about the skeleton-muscular system, the digestive system and the circulatory system.
Learning Objectives:
To understand the functions of the skeleton.
To be able to explain various features of the skeleton.
To relate images of bones, muscles and joints to diagrams and the body.
Find more curriculum linked Interactive Games on www.siemens.co.uk/education.
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
Siemens portfolio of STEM quizzes was created as part of the Siemens home learning portfolio of resources. Aimed at ages 7+ these quizzes will challenge aspiring scientists and their parents alike – perfect for the family to do together!
Learning Objectives:
To promote interest in the broad range of topics covered in STEM.
To develop students ability to research topics that spark their interest.
Find more curriculum linked activities on www.siemens.co.uk/education.
Six for Six is a portfolio of resources created by Siemens that 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.
Module 2 ‘Living in a world made by STEM’ explores the influence of science and technology on the world around us.
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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.
Siemens’ Build a Wind Turbine Activity sheet is designed in introduce KS2 students to wind turbines though a hands on task. Students are required to cut and build their own model wind turbine before exploring how modifications can make their turbine spin faster.
Find more curriculum linked resources at wwww.siemens.co.uk/education.
