Teacher Support

All resources are designed for 7-14 year olds, and are aligned to the Design & Technology, Computing, Science and Literacy objectives, from the National Curriculum for England and the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.

For a full breakdown of curriculum links for 2024-2025 challenges, download your relevant curriculum document for your age-range. These will be updated as new Challenges are launched.

Bring engineering to life in your classroom with flexible, ready-to-go challenges that spark curiosity and build problem-solving skills. Each one develops key engineering habits of mind – like creativity, systems thinking, and collaboration – while opening doors to exciting future careers.

Pick the challenges that suit your learners and your timetable, with full teacher notes and resources for three 2-hour lessons. Explore the Engineering Educates Toolkit for Get Making guides, skills videos, and career chats to inspire the next generation of engineers.

All sessions apply the Engineering Design Cycle so that learners authentically think and work as engineers by asking, designing, prototyping and improving.

In addition:

Careers Chats are fact files related to each challenge, profiling real-world engineers and robotics professionals.
Teacher Support via webinars, newsletters and blogs showcasing learning from classrooms.

Sustainability Development Goals are aligned to each of the challenges too demonstrating the importance of engineers to improving our planet.

When could you do Engineering Educates?
8 challenges will be launched across the 2 years, providing a variety of practical problem solving tasks for primary and secondary learners.

As an inclusive campaign they are designed to involve all pupils in curriculum time.

Teachers explain they have:
- used Design & Technology, Science and Computing time in the curriculum,
- integrated into STEM club enrichment time,
- collapsed STEM days.

Let’s bring EngEd to you!
We can join your staff meetings, teacher networks, conferences, or CPD events to showcase the power of Engineering Educates. Planning a professional development day or cluster meeting? We’ll tailor a session to inspire your team.

Want something just for your school or cluster? Request a bespoke webinar at engineeringeducates@manchester.ac.uk.