Creation of STEM
and Wellbeing toolkits

At Actualise Learning, we love creating wellbeing and STEM related toolkits for schools!

A ‘toolkit’ ready to call upon when required is a fantastic initiative to support individual students in and out of school.

Our bespoke or ready to deliver wellbeing toolkits can provide valuable resources, activities, and strategies to help students develop resilience, cope with stress, and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Likewise, our STEM toolkits cover a wide range of topics in science, tech, engineering and maths.

It’s your choice whether you choose a bespoke route or subscribe to our tried and tested resources and lesson plans to build toolkits for your class or school.

Here is a selection of topics we incorporate into our wellbeing toolkits for creating wellbeing toolkits in schools across all year groups:

Mindfulness and Meditation: Include resources such as guided meditation recordings, mindfulness exercises, and breathing techniques to help students manage stress, enhance focus, and promote relaxation.
Emotional Intelligence: Provide materials that teach students about emotions, empathy, and self-awareness. Include activities to help them identify and express their feelings effectively, and tools for conflict resolution and problem-solving.
Stress Management: Offer stress management techniques such as journaling prompts, stress balls, stress-relief exercises, or sensory items like fidget toys to help students reduce anxiety and find healthy ways to cope with stress.
Physical Wellbeing: Include resources that encourage regular physical activity and healthy habits. Provide information on nutrition, exercise routines, relaxation techniques, and sleep hygiene.
Positive Psychology: Introduce positive psychology concepts such as gratitude, self-esteem, and optimism. Include gratitude journals, affirmation cards, or uplifting quotes to foster a positive mindset among students.
Creative Expression: Encourage creativity as a means of self-expression and stress relief. Provide art supplies, writing prompts, or instructions for simple craft activities that allow students to explore their emotions and thoughts.
Peer Support: Incorporate resources that promote peer support and community building. Include discussion prompts, group activities, or information on peer mentoring programs to foster connections and a sense of belonging among students.
Resilience Building: Offer materials that teach resilience-building strategies, such as goal-setting, problem-solving techniques, and growth mindset exercises. Include stories of resilience and overcoming challenges to inspire and motivate students.
Digital Wellbeing: Provide resources on maintaining a healthy relationship with technology and managing screen time. Include tips for digital wellness, digital detox activities, and resources for practicing responsible online behaviour.
Self-Care Practices: Include self-care ideas and strategies tailored to students' needs.

Scaffolding Methodologies

Actualise Learning can design scaffolding methodologies for students from nursery age to sixth form. By implementing scaffolding methodologies, teachers can improve the likeliness that students will grasp new materials and retain what they’ve learned.

In practice, often means providing differentiated materials to students with different learning styles. For some students, highly visual materials may be appropriate, while other students might be more highly tactile learners.

Scaffolding, breaks up even differentiated lessons so that they are delivered in increasingly complex chunks. It breaks up learning new topics into stages in which old ideas are connected to new ones and students are led from guided to independent instruction.

Here is a selection of the wide range of topics we incorporate into our STEM toolkits (what is the purpose of a STEM toolkit and not just a STEM enrichment activity?).

Lava lamp making
Magic tricks
Flower arranging
Perfume making
Marine Biology
Genealogy
Robotics
A.I (Artificial Intelligence)
Aerospace
Aviation
Archaeology
Astrophysics
Biotechnology
Cardboard Engineering
Cosmology
Galactic Science
Glaciology
Ecology
Genetics
Life Science
Climatology
Neuroscience
Oceanography
Linguistics
Chinese Mandarin
Nutritional Wellbeing
Financial Management

We also find combining STEM topics with Visual Arts is very beneficial to learners. Here are our favourites:

3D Design
Animation
Calligraphy
Fashion Design
Filmmaking
Fine Art
Visual Effects
Photography

We work in partnership with teachers, students and parents in the creation and evaluation of our toolkits to ensure they meet the specific needs of the school community.