About this resource
The 'This is engineering: entertainment' STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) resource explores the essential role that engineers play in the entertainment industry.
Engineering is at the cutting edge: from machine learning, artificial intelligence and gaming, to advanced sports equipment, CGI, designing hi-tech sets and materials and music production.
These resources range from tracking sporting data, exploring the fourth dimension and creating light displays, to investigating synthetic beats and producing a scene from a horror film.
The activities present a series of creative and collaborative challenges, that will help students to:
- develop enquiring minds and teamwork skills
- find imaginative approaches to problem-solving,
- understand the role STEM-based learning plays in real-world engineering scenarios.
Teacher video guide
Video guide for teachers, parents and carers.
Student video guide
Video guide for students doing the activities in This is Engineering: Entertainment.
Engineering habits quiz
Engineers making 'things' that work or make 'things' work better. But they do this in particular ways. The 'engineering habits' describe the way engineers think and act. Take the quiz to discover your 'engineering habits now. But remember results are not fixed! If you take the quiz several times, you might find that different engineering habits are stronger depending on the type of activity or challenge you are doing. Engineering is all about having a diverse group of people and skills so having differnet engineers with differnet habits of mind in any team is always important!