With the British Council's classroom resources, you will be able to enhance the classroom experience, explore different cultures, discuss international issues and carry out joint projects.
With the British Council's classroom resources, you will be able to enhance the classroom experience, explore different cultures, discuss international issues and carry out joint projects.
Exploring the daily life of a large family in Yorkshire, ‘We of the West Riding&’ shows both their work at the textile mills and their varied leisure pursuits.
A snapshot of life in the Outer Hebrides, ‘The Western Isles&’ shows the traditional manufacture of Harris Tweed and the dramatic homecoming of shipwrecked sailors.
An amusing look at the production of a picture magazine, following the journalist ‘Jim’ as he investigates a town planning story in the north of England.
‘The Second Freedom&’ follows Jack Brown as he goes through life, and explores the various benefits he may receive as a result of National Insurance.
Explore conflicts across the world through this innovative teaching resource. The Nerve Centre has put together five lessons that describe and summarise conflicts that have taken place in Northern Ireland, India, Lebanon, Sierra Leone and South Africa. In each lesson, students will be provided with information about the country and a background to the issues which fuelled conflict within that country.
Each lesson provides students with opportunities to learn through questioning and investigation based active learning methodologies and links to a series of archive images, audio and video. The digital tasks provided will enable students to form creative expressions of the learning that they have developed around international conflict.
For the full suite of Teaching Divided Histories resources on conflict and to download individual lessons please see the Teaching Divided Histories website .
(The resource has been uploaded with the permission of the Nerve Centre).
A description of Lloyd’s services to world shipping and the story of a voyage from Valparaiso to Hull. The S.S. Armadillo, ‘100 A 1’ at Lloyd’s sets out with a valuable cargo on her adventurous voyage; she is reported missing; her safe arrival is announced by the ringing of the famous Lutine Bell at Lloyd’s.
A series of short vignettes depicts how the people working in different industries across Britain, from coal mining to shipbuilding, continue to operate full-steam ahead. Designed to showcase the defiant strength and unity of the people supporting the war effort from home.
Part of the Senior Biology series, ‘Development of the Rabbit&’ is a study of the gestation period of rabbits - aided by diagrammatic, microscopic, and dissection footage.