The next step for your volunteering
Congratulations on completing this course and learning about how to develop inspiring and engaging practical activities with young people. From looking at how to link activities to curricula, through to …
Course: Volunteering in the Classroom: Planning and Organising Practical STEM Activities
Planning task: Tailoring the activity
When choosing activities, it is possible to choose something relatively simple and adapt it for different audiences. We established how important it was to tailor the activity to the group …
Risk Assessment Example
In the video above we talk about some of the potential hazards associated with using a party popper. We will use this risk assessment example to practice creating a risk …
Planning task: Paper aeroplane design and test flight
Over the next three steps we’ll walk through how to complete a plan. We’ll use a simple paper aeroplane activity to demonstrate this process. In this video, you can see …
Introducing risk assessment
Last week you discussed what inspiring content looks like and a variety of practical activities. You looked at the national curriculum and skills frameworks and how to use these to …
Logistics and communicating with teachers and group leaders
Opening an effective dialogue with the teacher, group leader or other educator you will be collaborating with is a critical component in the volunteering process. We strongly recommend that you …
Experiences from educators and young people
Throughout the course, we will be referring to teachers, educators or group leaders. These terms encompass the range of people and organisations you may collaborate with in your capacity as …
Get started planning your practical activity
The purpose of this course is to help you match your volunteering activities to the educational needs of the young people you work with. Central to this is being able …
Create a plan for your own activity
This task forms part of your ExpertTrack Portfolio. During the previous course for this ExpertTrack you identified the range of resources available to support your engagement with young people. You …
Risks and hazards for volunteers of young people
An obvious starting point to the process of developing risk assessments is to understand what we mean by risk. What is a risk? The Institute of Risk Management defines it …
Types of activity
There are many ways that you can work with young people. You may wish to support teachers in delivering parts of the curriculum. Your company might host work experience placements. …
Differences Between Activity Objectives and Learning Outcomes
The purpose of the previous steps has been to get you thinking about what you would like young people to learn when they take part in your activity. This is …
Linking with other curriculum areas
It might not be immediately obvious, but your role and experience are likely be linked to a variety of school subjects. For example, while you may not have a role …
Engaging with the STEM Curriculum
When working in a more formal setting, such as a school classroom, you will probably be supporting teachers in delivering aspects of the curriculum. In the next few steps, we’ll …
A planning process
By the end of this course you will have created an activity plan for a volunteering activity. We’ll go through the planning process with you, building upon your ideas for …
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Volunteering in the Classroom: Planning and Organising Practical STEM Activities