Visiting a Water Mill
This programme from Teachers TV follows Year Three class teacher Clare James, from Canterbury Cross Primary in Birmingham, and Jane Turner from the Science Learning Centre on their way to Sarehole Mill in Hall Green. The purpose of their visit is to see if the water mill might be a suitable location for a Key Stage Two science lesson…
Numeracy - Interpreting Data
This Teachers TV programme follows on from the programme Numeracy - Handling Data where Year Four teacher Simon Mills taught three lessons on data handling using Excel in the ICT suite. Professors Rosamund Sutherland and Jan Winter of the University of Bristol discuss the benefits of using ICT to teach data handling at Key Stage…
Storing Our Stuff
In this resource from Teachers TV, children from Brecknock School in North London work on an aspect of school improvement with a designer William Warren. The idea for this project comes from The Sorrell Foundation and is called the Joinedupdesignforschools project. Children look at the problem they have storing their belongings…
Sliding Objects
This video from Teachers TV introduces Year Four children to the forces behind sliding objects, using a game of tug-of-war. This starter clip demonstrates friction and sliding objects and could be used to prompt discussion when introducing friction at Key Stage Two.
Learning with Scarlet: Lesson Review
In this Teachers TV programme Jane Turner, deputy director of the East of England Science Learning Centre, visits St Mary's Primary School in Birmingham to review and discuss the Learning with Scarlet science programme. Jane joins Veronica Knight who taught a lesson on 'the parts of plants we can eat' to her Year…
As Easy as CPD 2
This programme from Teachers TV follows Claire Duncan and Sukhbinder Bachra, who as part of their continuing professional development met with primary science consultant Rosemary Feasey. Acting upon the advice given to them they planned and taught lessons using a more creative approach. Claire’s Year three class investigated…
Primary Environment
From Teachers TV, this video shows four examples of day visits that look at the environment and are suitable for primary school children. Part of the Great Lesson Ideas series, the visits it shows are: The Eden Project giving children the chance to find out about the geography and science of tropics and the desert. The Blue…
Earth Observation from Space
This short video clip from Our Space shows Richard Garriott during his mission to the International Space Station, and what the Earth looks like when viewed from space. He takes a photograph of the stunning Palm Island development in Dubai, an example of the sort of information-gathering which can be done from space and used to study…
The Splitting Earth
This episode, from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), follows the Robots as they find out about the causes of earthquakes. They look inside the Earth, and to see how tectonic plates move, and learn about the links between earthquakes and volcanoes. They also visit two sites where NERC scientists are researching their…
Numeracy - Handling Data
This Teachers TV programme observes a Year Four class at a Bristol primary school where teacher Simon Mills uses the problem of the distribution of colours in a tube of sweets to explore the challenge of understanding frequency and interpreting and presenting data. The class worked in the school's ICT suite over three lessons…
Exploring Space
These short video clips from Our Space follow Richard Garriott during his visit to the International Space Station, looking at some of the more unusual questions and areas involved in the exploration of space. The video clips look at: • Do watches work in space? • Design a mission patch • Does mould grow in…
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…
Learning with Nicole: Lesson Review
In this programme from Teachers TV a panel review a Year Six science lesson with particular attention to the learning experience of one of the students, Nicole. Science co-ordinator and deputy head of St Mary's Primary School in Birmingham, John Blaney is part of the panel reviewing his lesson on planting and growing. John…
Climate Change
In this episode from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), students find out about the causes of climate change and how researchers use massive computers to help them understand its effects. The Robots find out about one gas that has a stronger greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide. And finally, the computer suggests a…
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…
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…
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…
Primary Cross Curriculum - Making Bags
This resource from Teachers TV follows Rebecca Higgins and Daniella Mana from Newtown Primary School in Shropshire. The teachers present three great practical lesson ideas around design and technology, all involving making bags. The first part of the programme shows how children use their knowledge of two dimensional shapes to…
Evolution Is Still Happening
In this Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) animation, the robots wonder whether there has been any evolution in the 150 years since the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. They travel to the deep ocean to find black smokers and see the very strange forms of life that exist there. They then learn about…
KS2 Science Materials
From Teachers TV, this video shows Year Three class teacher, Clare James, and Jane Turner from the Science Learning Centre on their way to Sarehole Mill in Hall Green. The purpose of their visit is to see if the water mill might be a suitable location for a Key Stage Two science lesson on materials. The mill contains a wealth…
Human Body, Reading and Tessellation
From Teachers TV, this video illustrates how three teachers bring maths, science and literacy together. Their creative, cross-curricular lesson plans include using music and dance to teach anatomy and tessellation. Music can be used to teach human anatomy to Year Four children, as shown by Kirsten Graham, Key Stage Two teacher…
Forces and Motion
From Teachers TV, this video shows four examples of lessons on forces and motion that are suitable for primary school children. Part of the Great Lessons Ideas series, it contains these ideas for lessons: Year Two teacher Jess Scott demonstrates how to teach the forces of pushing and pulling by inspiring her class to create a…
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…
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…
Magic Science and Maths
This programme from Teachers TV shows how to use ‘magic tricks’ to engage and excite children in maths and science lessons. Former space scientist and now ‘math magician’, Dr Mark Biddiss, visits the Orion School in North London and demonstrates magic tricks and intriguing science investigations to a group…
Problem-Solving Language
This Teachers TV video is from the series Great Lesson Ideas and highlights a strategy for teaching problem solving at Key Stage Two. Tracy Stuart, a Year Five teacher at Ripple Primary School in Barking, designed this lesson to help her students develop their understanding of how the language of a problem relates to a particular…
The Final Frontier
In this Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) animation, the Robots visit some extreme environments to find out what research NERC scientists are doing there. They travel through ice more than two miles thick to find a lake unexplored by humans; up into space to see a telescope used to find water on other planets, and finally…
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…
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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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…
Negative Numbers 2
This resource from Teachers TV features Anthony and Blue, who are Year Four students at Niton School on the Isle of Wight, as they invite us to share their learning experience with the next lesson on negative numbers. The lesson starter, from class teacher Josie Clark, is to establish that zero can be represented in different…