Resources by Teachers TV

Shape and Space

From the series Great Lesson Ideas, this Teachers TV video looks at games and activities used in two primary schools to develop student’s understanding of shape and space. At Cuffley School, Hertfordshire, students in Year Two and Year Three explore the characteristics of different shapes using pieces of elastic...

Shopping Mall

This video resource from Teachers TV is presented by mathematics adviser and performer Isaac Anoom. Filmed in a shopping mall, it raises quick-fire starter questions on: surface area of an octagon, calculating percentages, determining the best buy, probability, ordering fractions using reciprocals...

Simon Brilliant

This video resource, from the Teachers TV series Hard to Teach, features Inspector Clare Gillies who makes a return visit to secondary maths teacher Simon Brilliant, to see if he has maintained or improved his teaching standards since her last visit three years ago.

In July 2007 Simon Brilliant, a new...

Simon Brilliant Revisited

This resource from Teachers TV features Inspector Clare Gillies, as she makes a return visit to secondary mathematics teacher Simon Brilliant, to see if he has maintained or improved his teaching standards since her last visit three years ago. Previously Simon was classed as good by Clare, having received...

Simon Singh

This resource from Teachers TV introduces Simon Singh, author of the best selling Fermat's Last Theorem and Big Bang, as he visits a class of Year Ten students from Queen Elizabeth's School for Boys in Barnet. He explains how mathematics has been used to create secret codes from 1573, when the school was founded...

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.

Snack Bar

This Teachers TV programme is designed to be used as part of a lesson which looks at the connections between health and diet by exploring whether a fictional snack bar should be banned, licensed or endorsed. A simulated video conference between the marketing executive...

Sodium Ethanoate Stalagmite

In this video from the Teachers TV series Demonstrating Chemistry, Professor Hal Sosabowski demonstrates a solid...

Solar Eclipses

From the Institute of Physics (IOP), Teachers TV and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), this short video clip shows a simple method for helping students to understand the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon during a solar eclipse.

Sound and Hearing

From Teachers TV, this video is part of the Lesson Starters series. It contains five creative ideas for primary science lesson starters to introduce the concept of sound and hearing. Each of these videos presents the topic of sound and hearing in an exciting and accessible way, ending with a question designed to...