Marconi: video worksheets, differentiated x3.

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. Engaging, funny, and informative, Dick and Dom present the life and works of Guglielmo Marconi. Using recreations of experiments, expert explanations, startling examples and whacky cut-aways, the presenters explain pre-radio communication inc. telegraph. Radio waves, Marconi’s Salisbury Plain demonstration recreated, wireless technology, aerials, transatlantic broadcast. The importance of ship-to-shore SOS messages and the Lizard Point Marconi Bungalow. The RNLI training college at Poole. A broadcast to and from a hang-glider abovwe Cornwall.

Try the format FOR FREE: see Archimedes in this series here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13136795

Find the film on YouTube’s Tangwaap channel for “Absolute Genius S2E3 Guglielmo Marconi”. The film is also available on other YouTube channels.

14 questions for the 28-min film. Differentiated THREE ways! All versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues, and “C” version requires pupils to cross out wrong answers, not write in correct ones, allowing pupils with literacy difficulties to access the work. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc and .pdf of all sheets, two different links to the film on all sheets.