At-home science doesn't have to involve expensive special equipment! Primary school teacher and author of the 15-Minute STEM series, Emily Hunt, suggests some brilliant STEM uses for everyday items you'll find in your recycling bin, along with three quick, creative STEM activities your family can try with each of them. Will you make a water xylophone, a ping pong ball run or a hurricane house?

Read the full article, published in theschoolrun.com.

Find out more about Emily's new book 15-Minute STEM Book 2 here.

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Results from the newly introduced PISA 2021 Assessment of Creative Thinking will be published, designed to assist governments who opt in better understanding of how to empower and develop creative learners within their nations.

Bill Lucas, co-author of Teaching Creative Thinking, helped to develop the framework PISA are using. Read the full article here.

Written by Louise Hutton and Dawn Cox, Making Every RE Lesson Count: Six principles to support religious education teaching brings together the latest curriculum developments with evidence-informed practice and shares practical strategies for use in the RE classroom.

Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, Louise and Dawn provide teachers of religious education with the means to help their pupils unpick the big questions of religious belief and practice, and of morality and philosophy “ the things that make us human.

Find out more and pre-order your copy here.

There are, of course, very many books on the market which will show you how to play good moves, but there are very few that consider what™s happening in both your mind and your brain when you play. An understanding of these issues will improve both your rating and your enjoyment of chess. The book will also be especially valuable “ perhaps essential reading “ for chess teachers and parents.

Read the full review here.

Find out more about Chess Improvement here.

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