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Home Learning Learning resources STEM

This STEM resource for teachers is for top end KS2 and KS3 STEM skills, in the classroom or as homework.

Students complete five challenges looking at sustainable travel to and around the Lake District National Park. Classroom ideas, data, activity templates and answers are all included.

In this set of activities we hope that you and your students can:

Learn more about how we are protecting our National Park and reducing our carbon footprint to look after our planet for future generations.
See how STEM can reduce the carbon footprint in your own lives.
Meet people that work for us, finding out what they do and how they use STEM to look after our beautiful landscape.

Think about using the resources not only to link to the curriculum, but also to encourage the development of skills; teamwork, problem solving, creative thinking, time keeping, communication and presentation skills, and to extend thinking about how the students themselves can reduce their carbon footprint at home and school.

STEM activity pack

The resource below can be used as individual homework, or in small classroom groups to encourage discussion. Full resource pack with five student activities which all include the following:

Curriculum links
Ideas for extension activities
Suggestions on how to highlight STEM careers

STEM Activity Pack

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STEM gallery

elderly woman, woman and child getting on green double decker bus

adult female and two young children sat on open top bus looking out to lake and moored boats

Two people with bikes next to a train

Picture of Windermere Lakes Cruises ferry at North of Windermere Lake with Langdales in the background, tourism in the Lake District

A man and women sat on a ferry looking out to Windermere

three adults and child waiting for the ferry in a passenger waiting area. looking out to windermere lake, surrounded by green trees

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Learning and Engagement leader showing a identification key to a group of children during a pond dipping session

Learning resources

Bring the National Park into the classroom and connect learners to the outdoors with curriculum linked learning resources and activities.

Learning resources