Bouncy Custard
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about solids. Mix PVA glue, water, borax and corn flour to create ‘bouncy custard’. The glue combines with the borax solution and corn flour to create a new material which flows…
KS1/2 Antarctica: Teachers in the Freezer
From Teachers TV, this video follows a group of British teachers on a four-week expedition to Antarctica. It helps to illustrate the conditions in cold environments and how animals are adapted to live in such conditions. It demonstrates what humans need to do to be able to live at the South Pole. Designed for use in primary school…
Biscuit Bashing
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about solids. A demonstrator uses biscuits to show children that some solids are made of tiny pieces and can be poured. Using a biscuit and crushing it into tiny pieces helps children see…
Early Years Engineering: How do they do it in Germany?
This Teachers TV video shows how Germany aims to address a shortage of engineers by inspiring students from an early age. Engineering companies are producing teaching resources and training kindergarten teachers to help encourage skills and an interest in science and technology from Early Years upwards. Working with Science Lab,…
Forces - Pushes, Pulls and Friction
From Teachers TV, this video is part of the Lesson Starters series. It contains five short video clips that can be used to generate interest and class discussion on forces, movement, pushes, pulls and friction. The short clips illustrate: • The pushing and pulling forces exerted on a canoeing trip • Dramatic forces…
Just a Fraction
A successful method of teaching fractions to primary students is vividly captured in Just a Fraction. This Teachers TV video follows a group of seven year old students at Janvrin School in Jersey. The technique used is visualisation using paper cups cut into halves and quarters, cards representing different fractions and two tables.…
Materials
This video, from Teachers TV, suggests ways to introduce children to the subject of materials, separating mixtures and irreversible or reversible change. Part of the Great Lesson Ideas series, it contains these ideas for lessons: An irreversible change How to create an irreversible change to materials and use the activity to…
Slime and Goo
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about solids and liquids. PVA glue, borax solution is mixed to create slime. The PVA and borax solution combine to create a new material which acts like both a liquid and a solid. This…
Fundamentals of Design - Moving Pictures
In this resource from Teachers TV the need for more design and evaluation in Key Stage One is explored. An Ofsted report highlights that often more focus is put on making the final product and children are not given the time to gain the knowledge and understanding to make their own products. Teacher Teresa Wilton uses the story…
Carbon from a Candle
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about changing state and irreversible reactions. A candle is lit and a ceramic tile is placed above the flame. Usually a candle burns to produce carbon dioxide but as the amount of oxygen…
Things That Use Electricity
Produced by Teachers TV, this short video is part of the Lesson Planning Pack series. It encourages primary school children to think about the items in a house that use electricity. It can be used as a lesson starter to stimulate thought and discussion about electricity in the household. Heather is late for work so her friend…
Lava Lamp
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about liquids, gases and irreversible reactions. Coloured water and oil are poured into a container and they separate according to their densities. The oil on top when an effervescent tablet…
Light and Sound
From Teachers TV, this video shows four examples of lessons on light and sound that are suitable for primary school children. Part of the Great Lesson Ideas series, it contains these ideas for lessons: Years Five and Six teacher David Aston, shows how glass bottles and water inspire children to think about how sound travels and…
Light Show
This Science Tube video, from Teachers TV, helps children to understand about light and seeing. There are five separate, short clips: Day and night uses time-lapse film and animation from space. It shows how sunlight provides daylight and how the spin of the Earth causes night in the side shaded from the Sun. Cinema trip explores…
Habitats and Food Chains - Fox and Hedgehog
In this Teachers TV short programme, animals and plants talk about their place in a food chain and how they are interlinked. A fox, a hedgehog, a caterpillar and a carrot talk about what they eat, showing how animals and plants are reliant on one another to survive. When one of the links disappears it shows what happens to the rest…
Leaky Bottle
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about gases. A bottle of water has two wooden skewers inserted through the bottle. The two skewers are slowly pulled out but the water does not come out of the holes as the gases in the air…
Making Maths Real
Headteacher Maggie Hastie and her team at Weeke Primary School share their enthusiastic approach to making mathematics fun in this Teachers TV video. A number of teachers in the school have become mathematics specialists and are mentors for other staff members in order to raise standards. Students in Year One and Two start…
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Bath Bomb
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about changing materials and irreversible reactions. Bicarbonate of soda, citric acid and salt are mixed then combined with oil, fragrance and food colouring to produce a bath bomb. The bath…
Maths at Melcombe Primary School
Uncut Classrooms is a Teachers TV series in which an entire lesson is recorded and shown unedited, providing a resource would would be technically difficult for schools to capture. It is intended to help develop classroom observation skills. Teacher Kerry Lee introduces the video of her lesson, explains the objectives for the…
Dancing in Science
Produced by Teachers TV, this video illustrates how Victoria Palmer plans and delivers a lesson looking at parts of the body, movement and exercise to a mixed group of children with age ranges from five to seven years old. Victoria is familiar with linking the arts with other areas of her teaching but has never incorporated dance…
Freaky Hand
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about irreversible reactions. Vinegar is poured into a jar and a plastic glove containing bicarbonate of soda is fitted onto the top. When the bicarbonate of soda is tipped into the vinegar…
Intriguing Ice
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about changing state. Different kinds of liquid are frozen and the results observed and discussed. Pre-boiled water results in a mostly clear ice, salt water a cloudy ice, lemonade an ice…
Rainbow of Colours
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about separating ink through chromatography. Different coloured inks are dotted onto strips of water colour paper and then strips then placed in water. The different colours in the dye separate…
Maths for the Terrified: Involving Parents
This Teachers TV video shows how one primary school engaged with parents to support mathematics. Wylde Green Primary School, Sutton Coldfield invites parents to mathematics workshops with their children, where they learn to use consistent methods and techniques to positively support mathematics at home. The school also provides parents…
All about Telescopes
Produced by ESERO-UK, these short video clips look at a range of different telescopes and give advice and guidance on choosing a telescope for your school, as well as advice on how to make use of remote telescopes in school and also include an introduction to the Hubble Space Telescope. Presented by William Hill of the Royal Observatory,…
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Learning Outdoors
This programme from Teachers TV shows how one school uses the school grounds as a valuable resource for learning across the primary curriculum, especially in numeracy. Pip Mann a Year Three teacher at Hook Primary School in Goole passionately believes in the benefits of learning outdoors. Using the outside space within the school…
Action!
From Teachers TV this video, part of the Science Tube series, examines forces in action, what they do and how they can be measured using a Newton meter. There are four sections that each look at different forces. Skateboarder See how the various materials used for a skateboard have different relationships with the forces of…
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Calculation
From the series Great Lesson Ideas, this Teachers TV video shows how calculation games are used to make multiplication and addition fun at Eleanor Palmer School in Camden, North London. Year Three students play a game called Four rolls to a hundred . Organised into teams, they roll a die and decide whether or not they should…
Maths Across the School Day
This Teachers TV video shows how a number of initiatives across a school day are being used to improve progression in mathematics at Great Barr Primary School, Birmingham. Teaching assistants deliver wave three intervention and then feed back to teachers. A student’s progress is discussed by a key worker and a parent to…
Anti-gravity Bottle
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about gases and forces. A milk bottle is filled with water then a ping pong ball placed on the top. When up-turned the water stays in the bottle as the large surface area of the ping pong…
Heavy Sugar
This video from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), aimed at primary teachers, demonstrates an experiment which may be used when learning about densities of liquids or keeping healthy. A can of diet cola is placed in a container of water alongside a can of non-diet cola and the level at which they float is compared. The diet…
Independent Learning - KS1 Maths
In this Teachers TV programme, two education experts Malcolm Reed and Alison Fletcher analyse a primary mathematics lesson for a mixed ability class, looking at the teacher's techniques for encouraging independent learning. Teacher Pritti Poole encourages the use of mathematical vocabulary as she introduces her lesson on…