NUSTEM loans boxes Autumn 2 2022
Your child or children have been using one of our NUSTEM loans boxes in class. NUSTEM loans boxes are linked to STEM careers and contain original objects and replicas that can be handled and used as part of classroom activities. While using the resources in the boxes, children get the opportunity to try out and explore some of the skills, techniques, equipment and ideas that STEM professionals use on a day-to-day basis.
This half term, children in Key Stage 1 have been using our Cubetto loans box. For more information and activities to try at home, visit our Cubetto loans box page.
NUSTEM is an outreach group based at Northumbria University. We believe that STEM should be accessible to everyone, for study and for pleasure, from early years, through school, to employment, and beyond. We support children, families and teachers to feel more confident that a career in STEM is for ‘people like them’.
This morning Reception and Nursery became lighting engineers, investigating light and colours and shadows and making shadow puppets. Why not try our 
Today Panda Class became botanists and investigated Venus Fly Traps. To find out more about botany, 
Today Year 5 and 6 found out how environmental modellers collect and use data to predict the future. To find out more about environmental modellers, how to help the environment and for modelling activities you can try at home, 
This afternoon Year 3 and 4 became palaeontologists, exploring fossils and using pollen samples to investigate how the earth’s climate has changed over millions of years . For more information and activities to try at home, 