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Primary School STEM activities

Get involved with other IET events, as well as those from some of our Education Partners, to make sure your students have the best access to the full range of STEM activities available.

IET Faraday® DIY Challenge Days

Complete sets of printable resources and guidance notes for teachers and technicians to run your very own IET Faraday® DIY Challenge Day with students aged 8-11 years.

Go to IET Faraday® DIY Challenge Day

FIRST® LEGO® League for primary

FIRST® LEGO® Explore and FIRST® LEGO® Discover are exciting STEM programmes which allow children to explore real-world themes and develop key skills from an early age.

Go to FIRST® LEGO® League Explore

Greenpower

The highly successful Greenpower challenge to design, build and race a single seat electric car provides young people with a unique hands-on opportunity to engage in engineering.

Go to http://www.greenpower.co.uk/

micro:bit

Find out more about the micro:bit and the new primary teaching resources that we have created to help you plan your lessons around it with an engineering context.

Go to micro:bit

Kids Invent Stuff

Kids Invent Stuff is the YouTube channel where 5-11 year olds have the chance to get their invention ideas built by real engineers. 

Go to https://kidsinventstuff.com/

F1 in Schools

Spanning age ranges of 9 to 19 our main objective is to help change the perceptions of science, technology, engineering and maths by creating a fun and exciting learning environment for young people to develop an informed view about careers in engineering, Formula 1, science, marketing and technology.

Go to http://www.primaryschoolchallenge.com/

Fun Kids Radio

Fun Kids is a national DAB digital radio station for children. The IET and Fun Kids have developed several series of short audio programmes, videos and now a comic book for 7-11 year olds called 'Techno Mum' which aims to explain the technology that young people see around them.

[Please note that the comic book is suitable for ages 7-11 years old. Please state the amount required (up to a maximum of 30) and delivery address when ordering.]

Explorify

Explorify provides free activities to primary school teachers that will spark pupils' curiosity and develop their thinking skills. It's easy to use and requires very little preparation.

Go to Explorify

Terrific Scientific

Terrific Scientific is a BBC campaign offering you a series of exciting scientific investigations for your students to take part in to discover their inner scientists.

Go to Terrific Scientific

Event registration will be unavailable from 6pm on Thursday, 24 September 2026 until 9am on Friday, 25 September 2026.

We’re making upgrades to our event registration system.

On Thursday, 24 September 2026 from 6pm, our registration system will be temporarily unavailable while we upgrade our systems. For any urgent enquiries during this time, please email events@theiet.org and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. 

Thank you for your patience.

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