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 Wernher von Braun. Using recreations of his experiments, expert explanations, startling examples and whacky cut-aways, the presenters explain von Braun’s interest in astronomy and rocketry, the V2, moving to the USA, working for NASA, the Space-Race, Saturn V, Apollo XI. Amateur rocketry in East Anglia; Diddy Dom launched to the edge of space beneath a helium balloon.
See it here or find the film by searching YouTube’s Tangwaap channel for “Absolute Genius Vonbraun S1E2”. The film is also available on other YouTube channels.
Try the format FOR FREE: see Archimedes in this series here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13136795
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. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc and .pdf of all sheets, two 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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