Karl Benz: video worksheets, 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 Karl Benz. Using recreations of experiments, expert explanations, startling examples and whacky cut-aways, the presenters explain transport in Benz’s time, Otto’s engine. A reconstruction of the first car, Bertha Benz’s 14-hour voyage. Inside the internal combustion engine. The Amphicar. A 6.3 BMW M model. Henry Ford’s innovations. Inside Jaguar-Landrover’s Halesowen plant: manufacture and testing. A whacky race between a bathtub-car and a shower-unit-car, with a very poor imitation of Alan Partridge in the commentary box.

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 for “Absolute Genius S2E04 Karl Benz”. 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.