Resources by Teachers TV

Part 2: Collecting the Evidence

From Teachers TV, this video shows an innovative project to engage and excite children in science by constructing a mock crime scene investigation.

A mock crime scene has been discovered by Year Six children at...

Part 3: DNA Fingerprinting

From Teachers TV, this video shows an innovative project to engage and excite children in science by constructing a mock crime scene investigation.

Blood found at the crime scene needs to be analysed. Teachers use...

Part 4: The Verdict

From Teachers TV, this video shows an innovative project to engage and excite children in science by constructing a mock crime scene investigation.

All the suspects are brought before the Year Six children as they...

Patterns In Nature

This is a Teachers’ TV programme from the series Painting with Numbers. In this episode Professor Marcus du Sautoy explains how mathematicians use numbers and equations to represent the world around us. He demonstrates how mathematics is threaded through the natural world by taking us on a journey showing how...

Peer to Peer Assessment

This Teachers TV resource features Rich Walters, Teacher of Mathematics at Merchants Academy in Bristol, as he shows an easy-to-use idea where a set of differentiated questions, written on post-it notes, are used to facilitate peer assessment.

The technique empowers students and creates highly effective...

Phases of the Moon

This Teaching Astronomy and Space video, from the Institute of Physics (IOP), Teachers TV and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), illustrates a simple demonstration of the phases of the Moon.

Using...

Physics for Non-Physicists: Forces

In this video, produced by Teachers TV, Steve Hearn from the Institute of Physics visits a group of physics non-specialists to offer ideas on how to approach the teaching of forces.

Steve starts his introduction to forces with a bazooka: a homemade, partially evacuated tube which fires missiles at a target...

Physics: Girls Speak Out

In this video, from teachers TV, three young women go back to school to find out what turns girls away from physics, asking what can be done to improve the situation.

At A-Level, over three times as many boys as girls are taking physics. This results in under-representation for women in occupations...

Pizza Fractions

As part of the series Primary Lesson Starters, this short Teachers TV film clip is designed to be shown in class to prompt discussion about fractions. When a customer orders a pizza she does not expect her friends to arrive at the restaurant and want to share it with her. How should the waitress cut the pizza so...

Plans and Elevations

This is a Teachers’ TV programme from the series KS3/4 Maths. In this episode, head of mathematics Coni Archer tests out some new resources to investigate plans and elevations of 3D shapes on her colleagues before teaching her Year Eight class. The lesson includes 3D perspective, plan views and isometric diagrams...