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Teacher Resources

Your role is to inspire your students about science, design and technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Ours is to make that task easier and more rewarding.

The award-winning IET Faraday is a free resource for teachers from The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The programme provides an adaptable set of practical activities, based on designing, testing and developing to allow your students to apply knowledge and understanding in a meaningful way.

We know that science, engineering and technology are amazing, but encouraging students to realise this too can be challenging. Mapped to the curriculum and developed to complement your teaching, our materials will inspire your students with the real world application of these subjects.

Linking to the curriculum

Our free programme includes

  1. Stimulating online materials, closely aligned to the STEM curricula, providing a structure for teachers in different departments to work collaboratively;
  2. High quality support for KS3, GCSE and the Engineering Diploma (and equivalents);
  3. Opportunities to link to ICT, Enterprise and Citizenship;
  4. A wide range of worksheets for practical activities which can be creatively adapted to meet the needs of your classes.

How to use the resources

The Faraday resources are designed, to be used as either a sequential learning journey, with each activity building on the previous activity’s learning objectives, or as ‘stand-alone’ activities.

The idea is to ‘mix and match’ the activities as you see fit. They can be used in a variety of ways, for example, through traditional weekly lessons, whole-day experiences and cross curricular activities. The website and films will be used throughout the materials to help reinforce and highlight key learning points.

The activities are not intended to be prescriptive schemes of work or lesson plans but the foundation for you to build the required learning experience. They include suggestions for starters, practical activities, group and teamwork activities and an extensive range of extension ideas that you could develop with your students.

We want to test the innovation, problem-solving and communications skills of our students so they can explore how science impacts the world around us.

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