Online STEM learning resources
Women Who Code is a non-profit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. They provide an avenue into tech, empower women with skills needed for professional advancement, and provide environments where networking and mentorship are valued. The organization has executed more than 3,000 events around the world, garnered a membership exceeding 50,000, and has a presence in 20 countries.
At the Planetarium the primary activity is the education and the distribution of scientific and technical knowledge. The Planetarium aims to promote the understanding of astronomy and science to audiences of all ages, from nursery to life long learners via its STEM based education programme and science outreach offerings.
Armagh Observatory and Planetarium aims to support and encourage everyone to explore, discover and ask questions about our world and beyond. Our goal is to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.
W5, Northern Ireland’s award-winning science and discovery centre is supporting the national drive to create STEM Clubs in schools throughout Northern Ireland. This is a nation-wide initiative to encourage more post-primary schools to support extra-curricular STEM activities.
STEM Clubs give pupils the opportunity to do something different from normal classroom activities –they are not restricted by the curriculum, nor should they be confused with homework clubs.
Clubs can come in all shapes and sizes. They can be cross-curricular or focus on a single subject within STEM. Participating pupils can enjoy the application of what they are interested in by taking part in practical experiments, investigation, discussion and reflection.
The RAE’s learning and teaching resources have been developed in partnership with school teachers and engineers primarily to engage Key Stage 3 students.
The resources provide learning activities for use in a STEM club, for a STEM challenge day or to enhance and add context to the curriculum. An important aim of each resource is to enable teachers to engage their students with STEM through hands-on activity and stimulating engineering contexts.
- Resources to enrich the STEM curriculum are great for using in the classroom to add context to the curriculum, or as a STEM challenge day
- The after school club activities contain one or two hours of activity, perfect for a STEM club
NASA has a huge range of resources for students and teachers.
The CK-12 Foundation was founded with the mission to enable everyone to learn in his or her own way. The website pairs high quality content with the latest technologies, equipping students, teachers, and parents with everything they need. For free.
The widespread school closures have created new challenges for everyone supporting young people. STEM Learning is working hard to develop and roll out a range of materials, which we hope will help you.
Our subject experts have put together a selection of resources – all of which are completely free for everyone to access. Our subject experts are also available from 8.30am to 4.30pm on weekdays via our webchat, which you can find in the bottom right hand corner of all our web pages.
We will be adding new content and ideas every week.
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Bringing STEM to life through real-world engineering, Neon Futures offers brilliant experiences, inspiring career resources and stories that showcase modern engineering. Just type in your postcode or school name to find STEM experiences near your school
W5 has over 1,250 approved STEM Ambassadors on its system who have been DBS checked and approved who can offer time and support to promote STEM subjects and careers to young learners.
These ambassadors come from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, both graduate and non-graduate, academia, industry and business but all share a passion for STEM.
This is an invaluable and FREE resource for teachers, helping you to deliver the STEM curriculum in fresh and innovative ways.
NASA has a huge range of resources for students and teachers.
The CK-12 Foundation was founded with the mission to enable everyone to learn in his or her own way. The website pairs high quality content with the latest technologies, equipping students, teachers, and parents with everything they need. For free.
The BBC has a great range of STEM content for Secondary teachers to use in the classroom.
The Association for Science Education (ASE) is the largest subject association in the UK. It has been supporting all those involved in science education from pre-school to higher education for over 100 years; members include teachers, technicians, tutors and advisers. ASE publishes a huge range of teaching resources on its website.
Northern Ireland’s three Creative Learning Centres (CLCs) provide a range of programmes for teachers, youth workers and young people in the use of creative digital technologies. They deliver a unique service that supports the revised curriculum in Northern Ireland schools, provides essential skills for young people and enables teachers and youth workers to embed creative technologies and new ways of learning into their practice.
In recent years, the Creative Learning Centres have driven and supported the adoption of new technologies in the classroom with programmes around Mobile Devices, Coding and Digital Fabrication as well as taking the lead role in driving the STEM > STEAM agenda in Northern Ireland.
Since 2012 the Creative Learning Centres have led the Future Classrooms project in Northern Ireland to share best practice and lead thought development locally and internationally into the Education sector here.
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The tech industry needs women like you. Problem solvers, multi-taskers, communicators. We all have everyday life skills and despite barriers or hurdles, many amazing women are doing it anyway. Even if you don’t have formal tech education or training you can explore these resources to see how Tech Talent Charter is here to help you find an accessible pathway to a fulfilling career in tech.
Women Who Code is a non-profit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. They provide an avenue into tech, empower women with skills needed for professional advancement, and provide environments where networking and mentorship are valued. The organization has executed more than 3,000 events around the world, garnered a membership exceeding 50,000, and has a presence in 20 countries.
Sentinus maintains a list of links to sites where you can find out more about STEM careers.
The RSC highlights some of the career options that might be open to you at different stages of your career and provides information for you to find out more about them. It also explains how the RSC can support you through some specific changes which may happen in your career.
Nustem supports children, families and teachers to identify how their personal characteristics align with the characteristics of people that work in STEM, children (and their influencers) so that they feel more confident that a career in STEM is for ‘people like them’. It also shows the breadth and application of STEM in the world around us. Together these activities should lead to an increase in the number and diversity of young people choosing a career in STEM once they leave compulsory education. Nustem works with children from pre-school, right through to post-16 education.
ScreenSkills is the industry-led skills body for the screen industries, working across the UK to ensure that film, television (including children’s and high-end drama), VFX (visual effects), animation and games have the skills and talent they need.
They provide insight, career development and other opportunities to help grow and sustain the skilled and inclusive workforce which is the foundation stone of the UK’s global screen success.
Enginuity (formerly Semta) offers advice and information for individuals, educators, and manufacturing and engineering employers. Enginuity aims to be the connector engineering and manufacturing requires, for the sector to lead Industry 4.0 and offer fulfilling lifelong careers in engineering – so engineers can change their world and ours.
As an Industry Training Board and Sector Skills Council, CITBNI’s role is to encourage the adequate training of those employed or intending to be employed in the construction industry and to improve the skills and productivity of the industry in Northern Ireland. They provide advice, courses and grants for training to help construction companies improve their skills to increase their competitive edge.
The latest information and news about STEM subjects, industry sectors, apprenticeships, colleges, universities and leading employers. There are free iPhone apps to download, there is a video collection (goTV) and you can access hundreds of web resources dedicated to STEM.
The Tomorrow’s Engineers programme, led by the engineering community, provides a platform for employers to work effectively with schools to inspire more young people to consider a careers in engineering.
We need more engineers. For that we need more young people to understand how what they learn at school is used in the real world. Giving young people the chance to talk directly to engineers and engage in hands-on activities that showcase and contextualise engineering is at the heart of the Tomorrow’s Engineers approach.
Delivering national impact through local coordination, Tomorrow’s Engineers has directly reached over 300,000 young people in the past year. The vision is to create a national network of employers working locally to reach 1m young people every year with effective careers interventions from STEM employers. Tomorrow’s Engineers quality careers resources provide clear, consistent information for young people aged between 9 – 16, their teachers and parents.
My Skills My Life is a resource, developed by WISE, to be used by young people to discover careers suited to their personality types.
Students can complete the quiz online or by using the paper resource (downloadable). Once they have completed this, it shows them all the real life role models that have the same personality as them and the career they have in STEM (Science, Technology & Engineering).
It shows career pathways that the role models have taken. It’s an opportunity for students to find out about lots of different careers before making a decision about their future.
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