As a skill-development outcome, the year 4 students were required to prepare and organise resources for designing, making and testing a medical kit. In the year 4 classroom under study, the teacher found that the booklets offered clear instructions and the teacherdesigned PowerPoint reinforced the concepts towards preparing the students for the activity. Resources prepared for the unit were designed to motivate students for learning about the topic. The teacher noted student outcomes (e.g., values and attitudes; Athanasou & Lamprianou, 2002) through the “short duration videos [that] engaged students” for motivating them into the lesson. Preparation of resources was an essential element of teaching (see also Broek & Kendeou, 2008), particularly for STEM education activities that require hands-on materials for designing and constructing. The students in this class commented that the PowerPoint, as a prepared resource, provided them with “images...because if you couldn’t understand a word the picture would help”, a sequential order for the activities, an understanding of “what equipment I would be getting” and “helped me understand the Engineering Design Model”. The resource preparation possibly motivated students into a positive attitude for engaging in the lesson.