Absolute Genius: all TEN, differentiated x3.

Try the format FOR FREE: part one (Archimedes) is available here now.

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. Always engaging, funny, and informative, Dick and Dom present the lives and works of Archimedes, Wernher von Braun, Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Delia Derbyshire, Joseph Bazalgette, James Watt, Elsie Widdowson, Leonardo da Vinci, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Using recreations of experiments, expert explanations, startling examples and whacky cut-aways, the presenters give us the biographies, careers, achievements, and legacies of the ten.

See the films by searching YouTube’s Tangwaap channel for the playlist “Genius”. The film is also available on other YouTube channels.

15 - 18 questions for the 28 – 31 min films. ALL differentiated THREE ways! All versions of the sheets 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.