STEM day

Plan for the day
Additional resources: worksheets and teachers' notes

Equipment required:

• Maths and Music
  • worksheets (links below)
  • keyboards, recorders or other instruments which students can use to pick out a tune
  • music paper if any students can use it to record their tunes
  • space to move about during the final session
• Maths of Churches, Mosques, Synagogues and Temples
  • squared, isometric and plain paper
  • card which can be cut out to make tiles
  • scissors
  • geometric instruments: rulers, pencils, pencil sharpeners, erasers, protractors
  • paints, charcoal and other means of colouring constructions
• Languages and coding
  • texts (eg. newspaper articles, novels, text books, ...) in English, French, Spanish and German
  • access to the internet for a frequency analyser would be useful
  • spreadsheet for results of analysis of different languages (also linked below)
  • spreadsheet for Scytale strips (one strip per student - also linked below)

Additional resources

• Years 7/8: Maths and Music
  • Session 1 (9.15-10.45): Composition using clock arithmetic and number sequences - student worksheet, teacher notes
  • Session 2 (11.15-12.45): VC (please have the next set of worksheets available if required)
  • Session 3 (13.45-15.15): Symmetries of the square as the basis for dance routines - student worksheet, teacher notes
• Years 9/11: Maths of Churches, Mosques, Synagogues and Temples
  • Session 1 (9.15-10.45): Tilings - student worksheet, teacher notes
  • Session 2 (11.15-12.45): Constructing arches and windows - student worksheet, additional student notes, teacher notes
  • Session 3 (13.45-15.15): VC
• Years 9/11: Languages and coding
  
  • Session 1 (9.15-10.45): VC - scytale strips (one strip per student)
  • Session 2 (11.15-12.45): Using frequency analysis to decode texts in different languages - student worksheet, teacher notes, spreadsheet
  • Session 3 (13.45-15.15): Using skills gained to solve coded problems, and find the identity of the Enigmatic Character - student worksheet 1, student worksheet 2, student worksheet 3, student worksheet 4, teacher notes