Description
🐷 The 3 Ingenious Pigs & Gale Force the Wolf
A Hands-On STEM Play & Engineering Kit
What happens when storytelling meets structural engineering?
In this interactive STEM theatre experience, children don’t just hear the story… they build it, test it, and engineer their way through it!
Inspired by Sue Carvell’s (Scientific Sue’s) live performances, The 3 Ingenious Pigs & Gale Force the Wolf transforms a familiar tale into a powerful exploration of forces, materials, design, and problem-solving.
🔐 Exclusive Access: The Ingenious Engineers Resource Hub
When you purchase this kit, you’re not just receiving materials — you’re unlocking a complete teaching experience.
You will be sent a secure password granting access to The Ingenious Engineers Resource Hub, your dedicated online support space for delivering the full STEM theatre experience with confidence.
Inside the Hub you’ll find:
- 📜 Full narrated script for easy classroom delivery
- 🧠 Clear explanations of forces, materials and structures
- 🛠 Step-by-step engineering challenge guidance
- 🎭 Drama direction tips to engage every child
- 🏗 Real-world housing comparison visuals
- 🧩 Extension and differentiation ideas
- 📚 Curriculum mapping (UK & Ireland)
- 💡 Question prompts to deepen scientific thinking
Everything is designed to help you lead meaningful investigations — not just activities.
Full of experiments, facts, and fun ways to bring Science2Life!
🛠 What Children Will Do
- 🎭 Act out the story using pig and wolf masks
- 🌬 Test houses against “Gale Force” wind power
- 🧱 Build and compare straw, stick, and brick structures
- ⚙ Explore stability, strength, and structural design
- 🪢 Create and use a working pulley system to solve a dramatic rescue challenge
- 🤔 Predict, test, improve, and redesign their builds
This is engineering thinking in action.
🧠 STEM Concepts Explored
- Pushes and pulls
- Effects of forces (starting, stopping, changing direction)
- Strong vs weak structures
- Materials and their properties
- Stability and foundations
- Simple machines (pulleys)
- Real-world housing comparisons
Perfect for linking to Forces & Energy, World Around Us, and cross-curricular drama and literacy objectives.
📦 What’s Included
- Character masks (pigs and wolf)
- Story script for teacher-led narration
- House-building materials (straw, sticks, template guidance)
- Guidance for brick builds (LEGO® or similar)
- Pulley system activity instructions
- Teacher guide with STEM explanations and discussion prompts
- Real-world housing comparison notes
- Extension ideas for literacy, numeracy, and drama
Everything you need to bring the classroom story to life.
👩🏫 Designed for Teachers. Loved by Children.
Created by Sue Carvell — founder of Science2Life and former Guinness World Record holder for the Largest Practical Science Lesson — this kit blends:
✔ Practical engineering
✔ Creative drama
✔ Scientific investigation
✔ Cross-curricular learning
Full of experiments, facts, and fun ways to bring Science2Life!
