Engaging, funny, and informative, Dick and Dom present the life and works of Elsie Widdowson. Using recreations of experiments, expert explanations, startling examples and whacky cut-aways, the presenters explain the significance of nutritional information, “The Chemical Composition of Foods”. Energy, calories, the context of WW2 rationing. Bomb calorimeter, combustion in pure oxygen. Nutrition in sport (with Paralympian Dame Sara Storey) compared to everyday nutrition. Military rations 9mod 24-hr ration pack): the presenters do the assault course.
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 Elsie Widdowson S1E8”. The film is also available on other YouTube channels.
15 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.
All the subjects in this series are:
Archimedes, Wernher von Braun, Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Delia Derbyshire, Joseph Bazalgette, James Watt, Elsie Widdowson, Leonardo da Vinci, Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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