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 Brunel. Using recreations of experiments, expert explanations, startling examples and whacky cut-aways, the presenters explain Brunel’s early life and partnership with his father: the Thames Tunnel, the London Underground, his notebooks including illustrations, inc. the SS Great Britain. The Sounding Arch of the Maidenhead Bridge, the Clifton Suspension Bridge – where the presenters carry out some maintenance.
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 Brunel S1E10”. 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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