Learning resources

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Download resources to support any self-led elements of your visit

Woodhorn Wild Trail -learn about the eco-friendly features of our site and find our rubbing posts outdoors to create your own artworks. We recommend printing in A3 to have enough room to do lots of rubbings!

  

STEM Person of the Week is a week, teacher-led intervention that supports schools in integrating Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths careers into lessons. It helps add real-world context to lessons, and focuses on the attributes needed in a role rather than the academic route to get there. Each set covers a diverse range of careers, people and characteristics which are designed to counter stereotypical perceptions of STEM. 

Each downloadable set below contains five postcards with a different person featured. To run a five week intervention, a different person from the set would be introduced at the start of the week and their key characteristics highlighted. Then, throughout the week, reflect back and see if you and your class have used any of the characteristics yourself. This helps students to see similarities between themselves and the people featured. 

STEM Person of the Week was developed by NUSTEM at Northumbria University. These sets were created in collaboration as part of a partnership between our museums and NUSTEM as part of the Our Past, Your Future and Union Chain Bridge projects. More information about NUSTEM and STEM person of the Week can be found on the NUSTEM website. 

STEM Person of the Week Teacher guide - A handy guide to help you run this activity.

STEM Heritage Person of the Week - This set includes five significant people from the past with links to the North East of England. They can also be found on our online STEM map too! 

SPOTW AkzoNobel - A set created with careers at AkzoNobel, an international paint manufacturing company with a factory in Ashington

SPOTW Our Past, Your Future Set 1 - Careers featured include: Architect, Senior Validation Engineer, Clinical Support Worker, Archaeological Science Advisor and Veterinary Surgeon. A series of short videos is available to accompany this set here

SPOTW Our Past, Your Future Set 4 - Careers featured include: Research Scientist, Marine Biologist, Technical Manager, Emergency Care Nurse and Drone Flight Operations Intern.

SPOTW Union Chain Bridge Set 1 - These cards feature people from Northumberland. Careers featured include: Marine Biologist, Geotechnical Engineer, Computer-aided Designer, Civil Engineer, and Stone Carver

SPOTW Union Chain Bridge STEM Heritage Set - A set of five significant people from the border region in North Northumberland.