Resources by Teachers TV

Decimals Forever

This video from Teachers TV observes mathematics teacher Jonny Heeley as he inspires a group of gifted and talented Year Six students with an interactive lesson on decimals.

Terminating and recurring decimals are explored using a variety of games and challenges to excite and entertain. The students are...

Demonstrating Biology: Aviflu

From Teachers TV, this video illustrates an engaging way to look at the spread of an infectious disease. Students at Garth Hill College are amazed to find out how quickly viruses can spread when they play a harmless but fun game of Aviflu with their classmates.

Year Nine teacher Diane Wilson begins her...

Demonstrating Biology: Eight Demonstrations

From Teachers TV, this video shows demonstrations in biology that can be used to engage and inspire students. Each clip contains practical advice to allow teachers to perform the demonstrations in the classroom.

The demonstrations include: • An explosive demonstration of the energy in sugar. • Illustrating...

Demonstrating Biology: It Takes Guts

Produced by Teachers TV, this video illustrates how looking at a pig's entrails can be used to investigate the digestive system.

Nigel, biology teacher at King Charles I school, explains that once he receives the entrails from the abattoir, hygienic handling and storage is of paramount importance. Before...

Demonstrating Chemistry: Exciting Elements

This video, from Teachers TV, takes a look at some extreme chemical reactions and explores a number of exciting demonstrations that can be performed in the classroom.

Dr Kay Stephenson from the Royal Society of Chemistry focuses on the trends in reactivity of elements from group one of the periodic table...

Demonstrating Chemistry: Fireworks in the Classroom

This video, from Teachers TV, gives ideas on how to bring fireworks demonstrations into the science lab in a safe and fascinating way. It illustrates experiments relating to the secondary school science curriculum. These include:

• combustion basics, oxidation and oxidising agents • creating a flash •...

Demonstrating Chemistry: The Science of Fireworks *suitable for home teaching*

From Teachers TV, this video helps to bring the complex science of fireworks into the classroom. Matthew Tosh shows a series of firework demonstrations which cannot easily be performed in the classroom laboratory, either because they need specialist facilities or on health and safety grounds. The demonstrations...

Demonstrating Chemistry: Top of the Flops

In this video, produced by Teachers TV, Dr Shini Somarathne presents a run-down of the top ten experiments that go wrong for teachers, compiled by school science support service CLEAPSS. Expert chemists Dr Colin Osborne from the Royal Society of Chemistry, and Dr Kay Stephenson and Bob Worley from CLEAPSS...

Demonstrating Dynamic Geometry

This video resource from Teachers TV features Carol Knights, Departmental Mathematics Specialist at Bay House School in Gosport, as she demonstrates how dynamic geometry software can transform the teaching of many mathematical concepts, engaging students through interactive demonstrations, constructions and...

Demonstrating Physics: Electrostatics

In this programme, from Teachers TV, David Richardson from the Institute of Physics continues with more physics experiments for the staff at St. James Catholic High School in London.

Head of biology Wendy Butler has always been afraid of using the Van de Graaff Generator. David shows her how to use it...