Let's Go - STEM Trails

Let's Go - STEM Trails

Use your outdoor environment for teaching STEM concepts to children.

• Designed to inspire and support teachers, the book features 29 trail ideas for delivering scientific concepts whilst also linking to the STEM subjects.

• Developed by the Primary Science Teaching Trust (PSTT), the collection of trails was originally inspired by practising teachers who recognised that their outdoor areas were often an underused resource.

• The trails are designed to enthuse, inspire and support teachers to find not only scientific concepts in the outdoor environment but to also focus on and link this to technology, maths and engineering in thought-provoking ways.

• Each trail is designed to be easily adaptable to your own school’s environment and surroundings and provides support and ideas for outdoor learning, with a set of objectives, resources/equipment needed and health and safety implications.

• An invaluable resource for CPD with a huge range of ideas and materials to promote outdoor learning from EYFS to KS2. A curriculum grid, full glossary of relevant STEM terms and cross-curricular links are also included.

• Numerous topics are featured in the book including animals, biodiversity and habitats, electricity, forces, plants, properties and uses of materials and seasonal change. The trails also cover biology, chemistry, physics, maths, engineering and technology.

• Using the outdoor area as a teaching tool enhances a child’s learning experience as the natural world provides a stimulating environment that ignites curiosity and encourages exploration. Being outdoors is beneficial to a child’s physical and mental well-being and by interacting with the outdoor environment children can also make real-world connections to scientific concepts.

• The Primary Science Teaching Trust (PSTT) is a charitable organisation helping to improve the teaching and learning of primary science across the UK.