UPD8 New

• www.ase.org.uk/resources/primary-upd8
  For activities suitable for KS1 and KS2 pupils. These resources have an annual subscription.

Concept Cartoons - Talking Sport & Fitness New

Brand new Concept Cartoons for the Olympics with sports themes. You can download four free from their site or buy the full set of 40.

• www.millgatehouse.co.uk/science/cctsf

Get Set Science

Some practical ideas for using the London 2012 Games as the launch pad for creative enterprise projects linked to science.

• http://getset.london2012.com/en/resources-1/get-enterprising-across-the-curriculum/science

Get in the Zone

Free Science Kits for schools

Free Science Kits for schools, Interactive Activities, Games and Touring Exhibitions from Wellome Trust's Get In The Zone initiative.

• www.getinthezone.org.uk

RSC : Science and Sport

The RSC Bill Bryson Prize is an engaging and popular competition, designed to encourage and recognise clear science communication in schools and colleges. The Bill Bryson Prize 2012 offers the chance to welcome the Olympics to the UK. In support of this major event the 2012 competition theme will be "Science and Sport". This offers the opportunity to celebrate the role that science and chemistry plays in supporting sport around the world. Boosting competitor's performance through improved nutrition, ensuring the integrity of competition by uncovering cheats and providing sportsmen and women the latest and most advanced equipment they need to excel, all rely on the uses and applications of chemistry and offer a rich vein of scientific ideas for entrants to explore. The RSC Bill Bryson Prize 2012 is open to students aged 5-18 and entries can be submitted in all formats, from posters to power points to puzzles!

The competition will be judged in two categories, primary school and secondary school, with both individual and group entries accepted. The best entries from each category will receive a cash prize of £500 for their institution, and £100 for the winning students to share.

• www.rsc.org/Education/BillBryson

Scientists in Sport

Scientists in Sport is a UK-based initiative set up by GSK and King’s College London designed to inspire young people into a range of scientific careers.

The new programme will showcase how science will be used during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - from anti-doping drug tests to understanding how eye tracker scanning could improve how football teams perform in penalty shoot outs. The programme comprises a series of free events running between April 2011 and the Olympic Games in 2012. These events offer local school children the opportunity to experience a day at a university and through a series of sports based lectures and interactive workshops aims to encourage 11–14 year old students to take their science studies further and consider a career in science.

• www.scientistsinsport.com

STEM Challenges

The STEM Challenges are ten activities that have been inspired by London 2012. Each one is a competition and will focus on a different aspect of the preparations or the event itself. They provide a contextual and cross-curricular approach to studying the STEM subjects at 11-14.

• www.stemchallenges.net

UPD8 New

• www.upd8.org.uk
  Upd8 activities from the ASE have a number of good lesson sequences which link to sports and the Olympics that can be used in lessons for KS3 and KS4 classes. These resources are free.