Caroline Herschel: video questions, 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 . Using recreations of experiments, expert explanations, startling examples and whacky cut-aways, the presenters explain her early biography, the astronomical scene at the time, moving to Bath, career, her role in their research, her discoveries; we see her notebook. The importance of amateur astronomy. The presenters see the M13 globular cluster. What is a comet, and why the tail? Craters and impacts. The presenters make a rather silly disaster movie: it’s most undignified.

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

Find the film by searching YouTube’s Tangwaap channel for “Absolute Genius S2E05 Caroline Herschel”. 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.