Resources by Teachers TV

KS2 Maths - Geometry

This resource from Teachers TV features Richard Dunne, Mathematics consultant, who explains that mathematics involves abstraction and symbolism, the ingredients of higher order mental processes, an essential skill that students need to develop.

At Scotts Primary School in Hornchurch, Havering, Gary...

KS2 Maths - Geometry: Lesson Review

In this programme from Teachers TV Petula Allen, headteacher and former mathematics adviser helps Gary Clapperton review his lesson on Geometry with Year Six.

Petula reflects on how useful the whiteboard is and they...

KS2 Science: Ready to Learn

This programme from Teachers TV shows part of a lesson designed to encourage students to consider the ways in which they learn and help them to take ownership of their own learning. It also raises their awareness of the factors that can affect this. At the Hills Lower School in Bedfordshire, teacher Carol...

KS3 Antarctica - Science Teachers in the Freezer

This Teachers TV film follows a group of teachers on an expedition to the Antarctica to carry out scientific research. The team will be looking for lichens in the Ellsworth Mountain region, documenting where they were found and taking samples. They will also be looking at the effects of extremely low temperatures...

KS3 Bearings

This video resource from Teachers TV features Wendy Fortescue-Hubbard who visits Coombe Dean School in Plymouth and provides ideas for practical activities which can be tailored to different ability groups.

Tony Biddle, Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT), reviews compass directions with a class of low ability...

KS3 Maths - Introducing Pi

This video resource from Teachers TV features Wendy Fortescue-Hubbard as she demonstrates a visual way of introducing Pi. By carefully folding the label from any can across its diameter it is evident that it fits three and a bit times and Jacqui Edwards, teacher of mathematics at Vyners School in Hillingdon, uses...

KS3 Physics: Sound

Produced by Teachers TV as part of their Lesson Starters series, this video looks at different properties of sound. High-speed camera technology shows the vibrations, slowed many times, of objects producing a sound. These short clips can be used to...

Kung Fu Physics

Produced by Teachers TV and part of the Great Lesson Ideas series, this video illustrates using martial arts to explore forces and the conservation of energy.

Year Nine students investigate energy and forces to see...

Learning Maths with Kyane

This programme from Teachers TV follows the progress of one Year Four child as he learns about 3D shapes. Kyane, a student at Erdington Hall Primary near Birmingham, is regularly absent from school due to asthma. He is often behind with school work and is not socially integrated in his class.

Harriet, his...

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...