Hello Marine Park, we’re NUSTEM. We’re based at Northumbria University, and we work across the region supporting children, families and teachers in exploring science, technology, engineering and maths. We’re particularly keen to help people recognise that careers in these STEM subjects are available to them.
On this page you’ll find a summary of the things we’ve done with your school, and links to follow-up activities you can do at home.
Today Year 5 came into our Think Lab at Northumbria University to become cryptographers. This involved encrypting and decrypting messages and discovering how this keeps us safe online.
For more information about careers which use cryptography, activities you can try at home and a secret message to decode from NUSTEM, click here.
Today Year 4 found out about the methods that palaeontologists use to look at the past, and discovered how this helps them to predict the future. Click here to find out more about what palaeontologists do and for more activities you can try at home.
This afternoon Year 6 became environmental planners and discovered what maps can tell us about how an area has changed in the past and how this can help us predict what will happen in the future.
Key Stage 2 families became systems engineers and designed, created, tested and improved marble runs. To find out more about the job of a systems engineer and to discover more activities to do at home, click here.
