Northern Ireland Curriculum STEMWorks

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STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

In 2008, reports from MATRIX: The Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel highlighted the importance of innovation, research and development in Northern Ireland's STEM industries. Read more...

About STEM

STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

In 2008, reports from MATRIX: The Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel highlighted the importance of innovation, research and development in Northern Ireland's STEM industries. A year later in 2009, DE and DEL published the STEM Review and a draft STEM Strategy. Both of these emphasised a need for more links between industry and education.

When considered together, the reports indicate that we need to ensure that Northern Ireland's young people have the skills, knowledge and understanding in STEM-related subjects in order to take advantage of job opportunities in these fields and contribute to the country's economy.

In response, we have produced this STEM site, which is targeted at Key Stage 3 pupils and teachers. It provides a range of enquiry-based learning activities that teachers can use to:

stimulate innovative learning and teaching opportunities;
encourage pupils to make learning connections across subjects; and
enable pupils to better understand how STEM subjects relate to the world of work.

We hope you find the site and its resources informative, innovative and exciting.

Primary

Primary Thematic Units: STEM

Norn Iron's Ordinary Heroes

Post-Primary

Futures (Teacher Resources set in Industry contexts)

Agri-food

Life & Health Sciences

Advanced Engineering

Futures Skills

Using Mathematics Tasks

CERN (Teacher Notes and Video based Interviews)

Norn Iron's Ordinary Heroes

Promoting STEM through the NI Curriculum

Making Learning Connections

Assessing UICT through STEM Futures

STEM Heroes

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About STEM