📚🔬 STEM by the Book – SSERC Resource
STEM by the Book, developed by SSERC, is an innovative resource that uses a range of well-known and lesser-known children’s books as a context for practical, hands-on STEM learning.
Each activity is carefully linked to a story and designed using accessible, classroom-friendly materials, making it easy for practitioners to bring STEM and literacy together in meaningful ways.
The resource currently includes a growing collection of activity sets, with more being added over time.
🌱 Supporting Learning Across the Curriculum
The book selections and associated activities are aligned with Early, First and Second Level Experiences and Outcomes within the Curriculum for Excellence. They support learners to:
- Develop reading, listening and talking skills
- Explore and investigate ideas through enquiry
- Build understanding of increasingly complex concepts and vocabulary
- Apply learning in engaging, real-world contexts
By combining storytelling with STEM enquiry, this resource provides an engaging way to nurture curiosity, creativity and deeper understanding across the curriculum.
🔗 Explore STEM by the Book resources here
Find out more here.
Books include:
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Code Name Bananas
- Ella’s Umbrella
- Hello, Red Fox
- Leaf Man
- Mad About Minibeasts
- The Listening Walk
- The Snowman
- The Titanic Detective Agency
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- That’s Not My Puppy
- Spy School
- The Adventures of Scout (1), The Adventures of Scout (2), The Adventures of Scout (3)
