Resources by Teachers TV

What's in Your Food? *suitable for home teaching*

In This video from Teachers TV, food expert Stefan Gates carries out an explosive experiment to test the levels of sugar in two different breakfast cereals. The video introduces the idea of measuring the nutritional value of food, and is designed for use with primary...

Where Maths Grows on Trees

This Teachers TV video shows how one school in Morocco is using a grove of olive trees planted in their school playground to teach students about mathematics. The students use mathematics as they care for the trees, harvest the oil, visit the camel-driven olive press and sell the resulting oil in their local...

Whiteboard Numeracy: Decimals and Rotational Symmetry

In this programme from Teachers TV, primary mathematics consultant Darren Ellsum presents two lessons showing how ICT can be used to teach abstract concepts in numeracy.

In the first lesson, Year Four teacher Paul Greenwood uses the interactive whiteboard to show how to relate fractions to decimals....

Whiteboard Numeracy: Ratio and Proportion

In this Teachers TV programme primary maths consultant Darren Ellsum introduces the idea of using ICT in numeracy teaching to illustrate abstract topics. In the first of two lessons, advanced skills teacher Liz Walker uses presentation software in edit mode to illustrate ratio to her students in Bexley. Children...

Why Don't Girls Do Physics?

Professor Ted Wragg presents this short Teachers TV film which explores why girls lose interest in physics the older they get, despite enjoying it at an earlier age. Professor Michael Reiss from the Institute of Education discusses his research into gender and physics and explains what schools can do to increase...

Work experience

In this Teachers TV video, two consortia in Birmingham prepare to pilot the Secondary Diplomas in Engineering and Creative and Media. The...

Working with Formulae

This video resource from Teachers TV is presented by Fran and Dave, who use the length of a runway at an airport to demonstrate a practical application of mathematics. Graphics are used to demonstrate how to rearrange a formula.

Measurements, taken at an airport, are substituted into relevant formulae to...

Wowing the Parents with Practical Science

This video, from Teachers TV, takes a look at the ideas and initiatives which helped Monteney Primary School gain specialist science status.

One successful idea was enlisting parents to help in science lessons.

As well as allowing the children to show off their learning, this approach includes the...

Wrestling with Primes

This video resource from Teachers TV features presenter Matthew Tosh who looks at the complex subject of prime numbers, from the theories relating to them to some of their uses, in an information-packed video for teachers of mathematics.

For centuries, mathematicians have been searching for both larger...

Year 3 - All about Numbers

The Headteacher of Eleanor Palmer Primary School outlines her role in maintaining standards in the school in this Teachers TV video. The film focuses on an observation of a Year Three mathematics lesson and the feedback session. The emphasis of the lesson is on number as the class explore number fact families and...