Engaging, funny, and informative, Dick and Dom present the life and works of James Watt. Using recreations of experiments, expert explanations, startling examples and whacky cut-aways, the presenters explain Watt’s biography, that kettle, engines before Watt, the Newcomen Engine (at the Black Country Living Museum). How steam produces pressure, the collapsing can. The Crofton Pumping Station, the condenser boiler. The calculation of horsepower. A whacky Race between a steam lorry and a Heath-Robinson steam-assisted tandem – commented upon by Alan Partridge.
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 James Watt S1E7”. The film is also available on other YouTube channels.
16 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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