Name of Workshop: STEM Activity Day-KS3
Activities:
  • STEM tour of the collection - Explore the STEM facts behind the changing technology of flight
  • Build an Engine - work as a team to assemble a GEM engine
  • Helicopter Science - learn some helicopter science at our interactive Scout
  • Marshalling and Ground to Air Communication panel - learn how to marshal an aircraft and how to communicate using ground to air communication panels
  • Free time - visit our smaller items upstairs and find out about the Apache in our interactive room. Use our STEM booklets to find out more about different aircraft in the collection
  • Nutrition and Digestion - how are ration packs calculated? How do the Army select and prepare their food? (optional taught session). Coming soon!
Key Stage/s: Key Stage 3
Curriculum Links: 

Science: Forces and Motion

Science: Material Properties

Science: Nutrition and Digestion

Science: Chemical Reaction

Science: the Periodic Table

Design and Technology: Understand developments in design and technology, its impact on individuals, society and the environment, and the responsibilities of designers, engineers and technologists

Design and Technology: analyse the work of past and present professionals, and others to develop and broaden their understanding

Design and Technology: understand and use the properties of materials and the performance of structural elements to achieve functioning solutions

Design and Technology: Understand how more advanced mechanical systems used in their products enable changes in movement and force

History: First World War aircraft and pilots

History: Social, cultural and technological change in post-war British society

Geography: Locational Knowledge

Geography: Human and Physical Geography 

Group Size:  30/60
Testimonies: The students loved the interactive aspects of the day, so the engine building, and the marshalling. They did also love hearing the information and stayed well focussed during discussion, absorbing what they were being told.