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.

The challenges not sequential which means you can pick and choose those that suit your learners’ interests and how much time you have available. Each include teachers’ notes and all pupil resources for three 2hr lessons per challenge.

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.

Can we support you?
We’re happy to attend school staff meetings, UK conferences or events to showcase EngEd. Let us know when you’re having a teacher network or professional development course or experience.

Teachers wishing a bespoke webinar for their school cluster or staff can also request via engineeringeducates@manchester.ac.uk.