Marie Curie: video worksheets, differentiated x3

Engaging, funny, and informative, Dick and Dom present the life and works of Marie Curie. Using recreations of experiments, expert explanations, startling examples and whacky cut-aways, the presenters explain her education, chemical knowledge before the discovery of radioactivity; energy and chemical reactions. Pitchblende mining, extraction and purification of polonium. Discovery of radium and radioactivity. Background radiation in Eastgate market; some uses of radioactivity; the development of x-ray imaging, Curie’s role during WW1; airport scanners; fashion for radium in health products; Curie’s death by leukemia. Nuclear fission in a power-station; a chain reaction model; the zany presenters model a chain-reaction with explosives, and blow up a shed. Deliberately.

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 by searching for “Absolute Genius S2E09 Marie Curie”. The film is also available on other YouTube channels.

17 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.