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British Science Week 2025 full activity packs are live now!

The free activity packs for British Science Week 2025, which will take place between 7 to 16 March 2025, are available to download now! You'll find activities for children and young people from under 5s to around age 14, and activities for community groups.

The theme for 2025's packs and poster competition is ' Change and adapt ', and the packs provide fun and engaging ways to introduce this theme to the children.

The packs, created with the support of UK Research and Innovation, includes a wide range of fun, hands-on activities, and loads of useful information about running CREST Awards.
Download the Early Years activity pack here Download the Primary activity pack here Download the Secondary activity pack here Download the Community activity pack here
We hope you enjoy the packs, and we love to see the activities in action! Tag us with #BSW25 on @ScienceWeekUK in any photos, videos or other British Science Week news.

CREST

Many of the activities are suitable for CREST Awards, so if you enjoyed using them, why not think about running a CREST Award? CREST Awards give students real-life experience of being a scientist while getting introduced to STEM project work. They are nationally accredited and are a fun, yet educational way to get your children involved in STEM subjects.

Find out more about CREST Awards here.

Find more information about planning British Science Week 2025:

Gathering resources Making the most of volunteers British Science Week at home Beyond the Week

Previous activity packs
If you're looking for more activities, you can also find full activity packs from previous years below: 2024 Early Years | Primary | Secondary | Community 2023 Early years | Primary | Secondary | Community 2022 2021 Early years | Primary | Secondary 2020 2019 2018 Early years | Primary | Secondary

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Download your activity packs and celebrate British Science Week with these free science resources!

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Oxfam Guidance to Science and Global Citizenship

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Oxfam Guidance to Science and Global Citizenship

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Global Citizenship Guide for Teachers with Participatory Methods

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Global Citizenship Guide for Teachers with Participatory Methods

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Our practical classroom resources for every level which support active Global Citizenship.

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Welcome to the Climate Visuals website and image library - a unique and trusted source of evidence and images for over 350 climate change and environmental groups, journalists, educators and businesses.

Climate Visuals, a project by Climate Outreach, has had significant impact in catalysing a new visual language for climate change. We've run major projects on visualising climate change, representing indigenous people in images, and promoting diversity in outdoor photography. Climate Visuals images were prominently displayed at COP26 in Glasgow, and are widely used by outlets such as the Guardian. We're now seeking new funding and offering partnership opportunities to take our activities even further.

All too often, the climate change imagery the world sees is ineffective at driving change - it may be aesthetically pleasing and illustrative but not salient or emotionally impactful.

Our Climate Visuals evidence base and experience proves that imagery needs to embody people-centred narratives and positive solutions, and must resonate with the identity and values of the viewer - not just environmentalists. Only then can we truly drive engagement and promote positive action against climate change.

Based on international social research in Europe and the US, this unique resource offers seven core principles for effective visual communication, plus a library of images. Climate Visuals aims to strategically change the working practices of influential visual communicators across the world, to catalyse a new - more compelling and diverse - visual language for climate change.

Since our launch in 2016, our collection has grown to host over 1,000 Creative Commons and rights managed images - all content that embodies our evidence-based 7 Climate Visuals principles . These guidelines and exemplary images help ensure photographers, commissioners and editors can find and select photography that goes beyond illustration towards positive impact.

Last year, we relaunched our image library to maximise user and search functionality, creating new digital architecture. All images are captioned with an explanation of how they fit with the seven Climate Visuals principles, and why they work. Each image is linked to its original source and many are available to license from third party sites or download for free under Creative Commons licenses for use in blogs, articles and campaigns.

After registration, library users can now see and access content that is 'rights ready' for their profile and needs - searching in combination by keywords, country, theme, causes, impacts, solutions, date, license type and source. Users can also save, download and collaborate on their image selections across multiple lightboxes and share selected images directly to social media.

Over the next year, we plan to grow the library substantially with new partnerships and contributors, whilst rolling out customised climate-change keywords and vocabulary. This strategy and search tool will make our content even more accessible but also enable us to target and support both emerging and urgent climate narratives with the best visual content. Our Climate Visuals research and reports can now be found on the main Climate Outreach website, freeing up the Climate Visuals news pages for accessible summaries and news from across visual media.

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Welcome to the Climate Visuals website and image library - a unique and trusted source of evidence and images for over 350 climate change and environmental groups, journalists, educators and businesses. Climate Visuals, a project by Climate Outreach, has had significant impact in catalysing a new visual language for climate change.

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Explorify is an exciting programme of free activities for primary school teachers. | Spark Curiosity | Develop Thinking Skills | Increase Your Impact.

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Science Topic Planning with a Global Citizenship Approach

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Science Topic Planning with a Global Citizenship Approach

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Science Topic Planning with Oxfam Framework

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We promote use of the Sustainable Development Goals in learning so that children can contribute to a better future for all. From citizenship and justice to climate change and the environment, inspire children to make a difference!

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Practical Action is a global innovator, inspiring people to discover and adopt ingenious, practical ways to free themselves from poverty and disadvantage.

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Blank Planning with a Global Citizenship Approach

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Blank Planning with a Global Citizenship Approach

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Many conservation organisations rely on data collected by members of the public to help them monitor and protect wildlife. Discover how you can become a citizen scientist with The Wildlife Trusts.

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NASA's citizen science projects are collaborations between scientists and interested members of the public. Through these collaborations, volunteers (known as citizen scientists) have helped make thousands of important scientific discoveries. More than 410 NASA citizen scientists have been named as co-authors on refereed scientific publications. Want to work on some real NASA science?

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Litter Citizen Science Keep Scotland Beautiful

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Litter Citizen Science Keep Scotland Beautiful

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Our surveys are designed to enable you to determine your local litter problems so that you can tackle the problem effectively. You will need to engage with relevant stakeholders to design bespoke interventions to change specific problem behaviours for good.
What do your findings show?
Think about your survey results. What was item or group of items were popular? What are you seeing a lot of which might be unexpected? Can you group your items into categories that all have the same behaviour or issue attached to them?

For example:
School lunch litter - items that pupils are discarded as a result of buying and consumer outwith the school gates. Fast food litter - litter than people are buying from shops or restaurants and consuming on the go. Picnic and drinking litter - food and drink that people have planned to take to consume in a specific location Household waste - litter than has blown from a bin or has been flyipped
Alternatively there might be a very specific single item you want to concentrate on.
Identify your relevant stakeholders
What organisations and groups in your local area can help address this problem? The type of litter your finding can give you some indication of those who are producing it (both manufacturers and retailers), those who consumed it (those who bought the item and those who used it), and those that can influence the consumers (teachers, employers and parents).

We'd recommend working collectively to work out how to solve the behaviour. Can you add signage to purchasing locations? Can you add signage in the areas you're finding it discarded or along the route where items are used?
Designing a campaign
Raise awareness locally of the problem and remind people why it's a problem and how they should be acting.

This can be done a few ways. You can be explicit in your ask and problem, or sometimes a less authoritative/instruction based message will nudge people in the right direction.

This can be done physically on the ground with posters, wraps and stickers or through social media (check out Zero Waste Scotland's page for hints and tips).

Create a short slogan to get the message across.Try your best to tailor it to your desired audience, location and behaviour.

Make the posters and design engaging. Can you think of something funny to say, something hard hitting, something visual, or a funny pun?

Make them local. Use local images and local slogans.

Make sure you shout about what you are doing and check out our media guidance here. And if you have trialed something that worked, let us know - we'd love to create case studies to inspire others. Get in touch: cleanup@keepscotlandbeautiful.org.

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Complete a litter survey in your community

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Want to get an understanding of the specific litter problems in your community? Soon you will be able to complete one of our surveys to find out what items and behaviours you should be tackling.

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This concept cartoon focuses on temperature change in chemical reactions. Concept cartoons provide an approach to teaching, learning and assessment in science, they feature cartoon-style drawings showing different characters arguing about everyday situations. They are designed to intrigue, to provoke discussion and...

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Explore the Global Goals – 17 activities for Primary Schools – Scotdec

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These 17 colourful postcards are great for introducing children from Early Years through to P7 to the Sustainable Development Goals. The accompanying booklet suggests ways to develop the learning further.

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A Scientist Just Like Me is designed to raise awareness of diversity in science-related jobs and to provide illustrated examples of a wide range of science-based careers. It consists of a series of short slideshows, each one 'telling the story' of a particular scientist or person working in a science-related job.

The slideshows are intended to be used as discussion prompts, guided by a teacher. They can be used in different ways and for different purposes, for example:

to show children an example of someone from a particular ethnic background working in a science job

to challenge gender stereotypes about science jobs

as part of a science topic that relates to the work of the scientist

as stand-alone fifteen-minute discussion activities

with a small group or the whole class, or in a whole school assembly

The A Scientist Just Like Me resource was created by PSTT Fellows, Kulvinder Johal, Alison Trew and Ali Eley during 2021.

Acknowledgements
We are extremely grateful to all the scientists featured in this resource; we thank them for their time, for sharing their information, and most of all for the enthusiasm and commitment to the aims of the resource.

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A Scientist Just Like Me - Primary Science Teaching Trust

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Introducing children to a diverse range of scientists and people who work in science-related jobs.

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Cows or cars - Stride - online magazine for global citizenship in schools

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Pupils are encouraged to engage in an inquiry to answer a question using a method analogous to the way in which models are used to make public policy decisions.

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Scottish grown strawberries are available seasonally in supermarkets, while imports from Spain, Morocco and Egypt are available year round. Use the Strawberry Compass rose to find out how sustainable your strawberry is.

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How sustainable is your Strawberry? - Stride - online magazine for global citizenship in schools

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Use the Strawberry Compass rose to find out how sustainable your strawberry is.

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Which Toys are for Girls and Which are for Boys?

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Which Toys are for Girls and Which are for Boys?

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The Guardian of the Forest - Stride - online magazine for global citizenship in schools

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This activity introduces the concept of sustainable development for 9-12 year olds.

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Mae Among the Stars, The Story of Mae Jemison

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Mae Among the Stars, The Story of Mae Jemison

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Mae Among the Stars/ Storytime Read Aloud

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Inspiring Scientists is a series of resources to help develop students' understanding and awareness of science and the diversity of scientists. The resources showcase the life stories of British scientists with minority ethnic heritage and covers issues such as being a minority in science, influences in their childhoods and the fun and importance of science both to themselves and to the wider community.

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This photopack, deforestation factsheet and accompanying activities are the perfect introduction to the challenges the Amazon rainforest faces. Your Key Stage 2 pupils will investigate questions such as what is deforestation, how is the rainforest being destroyed, and what are the long-term impacts?

What's in my download?

This download includes:

A stunning photoset of the Amazon rainforest, deforestation and its affects

A deforestation factsheet to explain the process and its impacts

Activities to encourage investigation, discussion and justification of opinions

Teacher notes to help you get the best out of this resource

Find out more about ActionAid's work in Brazil

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This photopack, deforestation factsheet and accompanying activities are the perfect introduction to the challenges the Amazon rainforest faces. Your Key Stage 2 pupils will investigate questions such as what is deforestation, how is the rainforest being destroyed, and what are the long-term impacts?

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Primary Science: Global Citizenship Participatory Methods - Google Jamboard

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Primary Science: Global Citizenship Participatory Methods

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Signposts Global Citizenship Resource Bank Website

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Signposts Global Citizenship Resource Bank Website

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Practical resources to support active and participatory learning on global issues

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Stride Global Citizenship Magazine for Schools

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Stride Global Citizenship Magazine for Schools

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Credit: Wikimedia Commons

How did the UK change during the Victorian era? What are the legacies we feel today? Explore this and other questions with this new Global Citizenship planner.
Download activity (PDF)

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global citizenship activities for schools - Stride - online magazine for global citizenship in schools

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Some great new resources were launched at the end of 2023 which support decolonising the curriculum and dealing with climate anxiety. Try out some sam...