Teachers and Careers Leaders can get free engineering careers teaching resources from the Tomorrow’s Engineers website.
Examples of free teaching resources for engineering careers:
- Inspire young people in environmental sustainability
- Career route map
- Vocational and apprenticeship routes
- Lesson plan: Saving lives as an engineer
- School posters
Curriculum-linked lesson plans and activities
Download Free Engineering Poster And Teacher Notes
The Save lives as an engineer poster and accompanying teacher booklet contains notes, activities and curriculum-linked lesson plans, helping students understand the scale and impact of disaster response engineering. Many types of engineering are employed in helping communities affected by earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches and other disasters. From designing equipment and technology used to find and rescue victims, to providing shelter and transport networks, restoring electricity and sanitation and creating medical devices, detection systems and buildings that can withstand extreme pressure, engineers save hundreds of thousands of lives.
Case Studies of Real Engineers
Tomorrow’s Engineers has a large bank of videos, blogs and written case studies featuring engineers at work, talking about their route in to their career and explaining what they do in a typical week. These span a huge range of sectors, including fashion, space, disaster response, sport, power, transport, food, entertainment, construction, water and medicine. These can be found at:
The Big Bang Fair
The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair is the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) for young people in the UK. The Big Bang Fair is an award-winning combination of exciting theatre shows, interactive workshops and exhibits and careers information from STEM professionals. It also hosts national competitions, inviting young people from across the UK to compete, amongst other things, for the title of UK Young Scientist and UK Young Engineer of the Year. Regional Big Bang Fairs take place across the country each year. To find your nearest event, enter your postcode or town when you visit www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/nearme.
