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Read Your Way: World Book Day Resources
This year, the theme for World Book Day 2025 is ‘Read Your Way’, encouraging children and young people to discover reading on their terms. Children sometimes feel like reading is something they have to do, rather than something they want to do. 2025 is all about making reading fun – get involved on the 6th of March!
You can celebrate World Book Day in school or at home with these fantastic activities & resources. If you’re looking for STEM-related ideas, we’ve highlighted those too.
Official Resources & Activities:
World Book Day is a registered charity on a mission to give every child and young person a book of their own. It’s also a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) a celebration of reading.
World Book Day 2025 – Family Activities
World Book Day 2025 – Educator Resources
World Book Day – £1 Books
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All About STEM: World Book Day – Super STEM Books!
A fantastic selection of STEM titles for class or home. Pack your student’s shelves with inspirational information and activity books on science, technology, engineering and maths!
The IET: Making a Character Face Mask
Coming Soon: The Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 2025
CREST Awards encourage students to work like scientists, researchers, engineers and designers to investigate and explore their own ideas. CREST offers an extensive range of projects for ages 3-19 and some of the activities are the perfect match for popular stories.
David Walliams – Demon Dentist
There are fun CREST projects on dental health for primary (Terrific Teeth) and secondary. Earn a CREST Award, make your own toothpaste & keep David’s dentist away!
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Roald Dahl
In the spirit of George & his marvellous medicine, why not try a CREST chemistry activity? Your class can learn, experiment, investigate and have fun!
Take a look at some of the example activities below…
It’s easy: choose an award level and start running CREST today!
PRIMARY
STAR
Perfect for 5-7 year olds who are starting their STEM journey. Inspire primary-aged students with short, hands-on activities that challenge them to explore the world around them.
- Brilliant Bubbles
- Teabag Troubles
- Muddy Mess
SUPERSTAR
Most suitable for upper-primary students who are looking for a challenge.
- A Sticky Problem
- Get Set Jellies
- Testing Tea
- Investigating Ink
- Testing Toothpaste
- Yummy Yoghurt
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BRONZE
An introduction to STEM project work for 11-14 year olds working in teams. Empower your students to run their own investigation from start to finish – let them run the project they want to do!
- What’s in a food?
- Testing Metals
SILVER
A challenge for your 14-16 year old students by running their own STEM projects in teams or individually.
- Testing Toothpastes
- Are some jeans tougher?
- Hit & Run Investigation
- The Ultimate Pizza Box
GOLD
Stretch your 16-19 year old students with a long-term, open-ended project ideal for enhancing their UCAS applications.
- Detecting Food Fraud
- Investigating Metal Jewellery
- Which fertiliser works better?
Enjoy the resources, the reading and a wonderful World Book Day!
As North West Regional CREST Support Organisation, All About STEM promote CREST Awards across the region and point schools & clubs to the support they need to run this amazing scheme. CREST Awards encourage students to work like scientists, researchers, engineers and designers to investigate and explore their own project ideas.
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