Resources by Teachers TV

Music's Energy Footprint

Produced by Teachers TV, this video looks at climate change from an interesting perspective. The UK music industry is working with energy and climate researcher Catherine Bottrill to reduce its carbon footprint. They identified three main areas of emissions: live music venues, audience travel and compact disc...

National Space Centre

This Teachers TV film follows a class as they visit the National Space Centre in Leicester, which is devoted entirely to space and space exploration. The Year Seven class participates in a simulated space mission, taking on the roles of space station astronauts and ground-based mission controllers.

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Negative Numbers 1

This resource from Teachers TV features Josie Clark, a teacher at Niton Primary School on the Isle of Wight, as she introduces negative numbers to a class of Year Four students. Josie explains how she previously taught negative numbers using thermometers, but found that while students grasped the concept that...

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...

New Maths Technology - In the Classroom

This is a Teachers’ TV programme from the series KS3/4 Maths. In this episode, the first episode of two, the mathematics department at Tanbridge House School in Horsham embark upon a project to improve their teaching and make mathematics more stimulating by making better use of ICT in the classroom. The teachers...

New Maths Technology - Managing Change

This is a Teachers’ TV programme from the series KS3/4 Maths. In this episode, the second episode of two, the mathematics department at Tanbridge House School in Horsham embark upon a project to improve their teaching and make mathematics more stimulating by making better use of ICT in the classroom.

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New Technology: The Issues

This Teachers TV video shows Goldsmiths College's Professor Richard Kimbell and senior researcher Tony Wheeler leading a discussion on the effectiveness of handheld technology and software following a two day trial at Saltash Community School in Cornwall.

The discussion reflects on the challenge of using...

News Report

This Teachers TV video shows a fictional news report, announcing a proposed ban on under 16s eating junk food, which can be used as part of a lesson on healthy eating and nutrition.

The presenter in the news report...

Night Train

This Teachers TV video is part of the series A World of Maths, which travels to different locations to pose mathematical problems.

The mathematics required to operate the overnight sleeper train, running from London to Scotland, is highlighted in this video. There are 12 short scenes, each displaying a...

Numbers

From the series Great Lesson Ideas, this Teachers TV video showcases a selection of activities designed to engage primary students in learning about numbers. Staff at Eleanor Palmer School in Camden, North London, create factor bugs to help Year Five students understand factors, prime and square numbers. They...