Fox Talbot: video worksheets, differentiated x3.

Engaging, funny, and informative, Dick and Dom present the life and works of William Henry Fox-Talbot. Using recreations of experiments, expert explanations, startling examples and whacky cut-aways, the presenters explain the camera obscura, the pinhole camera, improvements including lenses. Light-sensitive film, Daguerreotypes, photographic paper and silver nitrate. Negatives and fixing, the importance of negatives or multiple printing. Light and the need for stationary subjects. Flash photography: the first, and modern flash units. Pin-hole cameras. The bonkers presenters make a “bin-hole” camera from a dumpster, and take several acceptable pictures in London.

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 S2E10 Fox Talbot”. The film is also available on other YouTube channels.

16 questions for the 27-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.