The Toolkit is a generic set of prompts to support teachers anywhere to introduce the Engineering Design Process into their classrooms.
If you are leading the development of engineering across your school or experimenting with how to embed engineering ideas in your lessons, the EngEd Toolkit provides downloadable resources direct for use across a whole range learning - including how to think as an engineer and create as an engineer.
Think as an Engineer: design specification templates, 5Ds Decision Maker, ACCESSFM, SCAMPER and more...
Create as an Engineer:materials, joining, forming and mechanisms plus demos of prototyping skills
“After I shared the resources from the EngEd Toolkit, experienced teachers and early career teachers alike said how useful they are. We’ve seen pupils shift from basic junk modelling to following a real design spec! It’s engineering in the real.”
Primary and secondary teachers can access funded ‘Engineering in the Curriculum’ professional development.*
Designed by teachers for teachers - boost your confidence and teaching approaches to use engineering real-world contexts to cover National Curriculum content.
Choose from:
11th November 2025: National STEM Learning Centre, University of York Campus, Heslington, York YO10 5DD
20th January 2026: Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 0DQ
24th February 2026: British Science Association, Wellcome Wolfson Building, London SW7 5HD
Want to be profiled on the EngEd website? We’ll write a blog and send personalised certificates to your pupils. Email us to let us know what you’ve done and we’ll do the rest engineeringeducates@manchester.ac.uk
Welcome to Kate Sutton!
An experienced teacher who has a wealth of experience of embedding engineering in her classroom.
Still in school part of the week she’s ready to support you – ask a question by emailing engineeringeducates@manchester.ac.uk
Engineering Educates: Robotics Challenge is brought to you by SEERIH at The University of Manchester and the UK-RAS Networkas part of an EPSRC Programme Grant. We are delighted to link teachers with professional researchers and academics working in cutting-edge robotics. A fantastic way to inspire learners to apply curriculum learning.
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