Resources by Teachers TV

Eating Whatever You Like?

This Teachers TV video shows food adventurer Stefan Gates preparing and eating a salad made with crispy worms, jelly fish and ants. The clip is designed to promote discussion about health and diet.

Stefan makes the...

Economic Wellbeing

In this Teachers TV programme, staff at Riddlesdown High School in South London are taking steps to encourage students to study science, mathematics and technology.

Students at the school participate in a role play as members of a residents' association. During the activity they discuss a proposal to...

Electrical Circuits

Produced by Teachers TV, in this video two teachers show the experiments they find useful in teaching students about electrical circuits.

Dr Phil Scott, professor of science education at the University of Leeds,...

Electricity

From Teachers TV, this video shows four examples of lessons on electricity that are suitable for primary school children. Part of the Great Lesson Ideas series, it contains these ideas for lessons:

In a role-playing activity Deputy Headteacher Tony Davies demonstrates how electricity is instant with the...

Electricity Circuits

From Teachers TV, this video shows how a Year Six teacher, Zoe Lowe, introduces electric circuits to her class. She uses innovative role-playing exercises to underpin the transition from symbolic diagrams to circuit boards.

Zoe's lesson begins with a card-matching exercise to assess what children know...

Elliptical Orbits

This Teaching Astronomy and Space video clip, from the Institute of Physics (IOP), Teachers TV and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), illustrates a simple demonstration showing how the orbits of the planets form an ellipse around the sun. It also...

Energy and Recycling *suitable for home teaching*

This programme is part of the Teachers TV series Sustainability in California, which showcases the ingenuity and cutting edge technology that California is applying to sustainability and clean energy. The programme looks at the development of non-polluting cars which use hydrogen as the fuel, called zero-emission...

Engaging Girls with Practical Science

Produced by Teachers TV, this video takes a look at the work Skyswood Primary School in St Albans in trying to encourage girls to enjoy science.

When the staff at the school gave the children an annual questionnaire about subjects, they were alarmed to discover that while 70% of boys loved science, only...

Engineering Elegance - Awards

Kate Bellingham set a challenge for design and technology students to design a dress using e-textiles, to wear as she hosts a prestigious awards ceremony at the Globe Theatre in London. This Teachers TV video shows the final stage of the competition.

The winning design, by A-level product design student...

Engineering Elegance - Design

In this Teachers TV video, presenter and teacher Kate Bellingham sets a design challenge to Key Stage Four and Key Stage Five design and technology students. The brief is to design a dress using e-textiles to be worn by Kate as she hosts the British Engineering Excellence Awards.

Kate is joined by a panel...