Resources by Teachers TV

Redshift

This Teaching Astronomy and Space video clip, from the Institute of Physics (IOP), Teachers TV and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), shows a simple demonstration that can be used to help students understand red shift and blue shift of waves emitted by a moving object. Using the school yard,...

Reducing Friction - Skid Pan

Part of the Lesson Starters series, this Teacher’s TV programme is a short clip demonstrating how friction works. A driving instructor drives a car around a test track in wet conditions, and discusses how friction is reduced by the water. The video ends with a question designed to prompt discussion on how other...

Revising Polygons with Year 11

This video resource from Teachers TV features Jenny Brown, Deputy Head of Mathematics at Langley Park School for Girls in Bromley, as she delivers a revision lesson on polygons to a Year Eleven class who are preparing for GCSE examinations, using new Assessment for Learning techniques for the first time.

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Robot Challenge

In this Teachers TV video, a team of two schools from Yorkshire, design build and test a robot before travelling to America to take part in a competition against hundreds of other schools. The robot, made from a kit of 150 parts common to all teams, must be capable of competing in a basketball type game and the...

Role models and work placements

In this Teachers TV video, a group of STEM ambassadors visit Bradfield...

Rowde Country Soup with Soda Bread

In this resource from Teachers TV, Chef Peter Vaughan visits a Year Five class at Rowde Primary School to help children become involved in cooking food grown in their school garden. Children have been developing an awareness of where their food comes from by growing vegetables in their school garden. Peter wants...

Running Discussions in a KS2 Class

In this programme from Teachers TV, education consultant Matthew Tosh introduces tips on how to run a good science-related discussion in a Key Stage Two classroom.

As well as seeing clips of discussions during science lessons, the teachers featured also give their comments on facilitating effective...

Running Discussions in a KS3/4 Class

In this Teachers TV programme, Matthew Tosh, a science education expert, introduces tips on how to manage effective group discussion in a Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four science classroom. The science teachers featured in the programme have created learning environments which encourage students to...

Safety In Numbers

This is a Teachers’ TV programme from the series Painting with Numbers. In this episode Professor Marcus du Sautoy reveals how the language of mathematics is used to construct the complex codes that we encounter in everyday life, codes on mp3 players which allow us to store music, codes that allow us to search...

Saturn and the Scale of the Solar System

In this Teaching Astronomy and Space video, from the Institute of Physics (IOP), Teachers TV and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), planetary scientist Sheila Kanani shows us the stunning images of Saturn and its moons taken from the Cassini...