Whether you're at home or at school, you can use BBC Teach for free. Our website is home to thousands of free curriculum-mapped videos, arranged by age-group and subject.
Whether you're at home or at school, you can use BBC Teach for free. Our website is home to thousands of free curriculum-mapped videos, arranged by age-group and subject.
Using original music alongside quotations from the play, this short clip from BBC Teach provides a summary of the main themes in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, and is part of a wider collection of Shakespeare Songs available on the BBC Teach website.
This clip can be used as a revision aid or watched after reading the text, to cement key points.
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Neil Armstrong’s historic voyage to the Moon is explored in this short animated film for primary pupils from the BBC Teach series, Explorers.
This could be used as a starting point for learning about the Earth and space, for example, learning how the Moon moves in relation to the Earth, or how gravity is different on the Moon compared to the Earth.
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In this clip from the BBC Teach series, True Stories, Florence Nightingale tells the story of her life and work, and shows how she grew up to become a nurse during the Crimean War.
The story is told in the first person, and brought to life with a mix of drama, movement, music and animation.
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This film is from the series Infested! Living with parasites available on BBC Teach.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SHORT FILM CONTAINS DISTURBING SCENES AND TEACHER REVIEW IS RECOMMENDED PRIOR TO USE IN CLASS.
In this short film Dr Michael Mosley visits a ‘delousing salon’ in London to collect live head lice.
Delousing salons use a vacuum cleaner with a special attachment to collect the ten to twenty lice that an infected person typically has.
Michael Mosley infects himself and visits the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Here, he looks at the lice sucking his blood using a handheld microscope.
The speed of the lice moving over his arms is amazing.
The co-evolution of these organisms with humans is also described.
Teacher Notes
This short film could provide an interesting introduction to the topic of parasitism (and mutualism).
This could lead to studying the effects of parasites on humans or other organisms (including plants).
This could also introduce the topic of co-evolution (humans and body lice).
Curriculum Notes
This short film is suitable for teaching biology at KS4/GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National 4/5 in Scotland.
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This film is from the series The Imagineers available on BBC Teach.
Fran Scott meets Dr Eleanor Stride from the University of Oxford who is working on using nano-bubbles to deliver drugs to specific parts of the human body.
Dr Stride explains that cancer drugs are poisonous and have many side effects.
Her research uses microscopic bubbles of gas coated with a special shell containing these drugs which are then injected into the patient’s blood.
More than half of the drugs we develop are too poisonous to work. Using nano-bubbles means a much smaller dose is required and so this technology may allow us to use more drugs in the future.
Teacher Notes
This clip could be shown as an example of how a basic product (chemotherapy drugs) can undergo significant change through concentrating on one aspect (in this case, delivery).
As a class, discuss the basic brief and its aims. Students should see that the chosen solution, involving use of magnets and ultrasound, is not dictated by the brief, but is just one way of answering it.
A practical exercise could then be carried out, based on a delivery system for a fragile object. In groups, students could invent systems that will transport eggs from one side of the class to the other, leaving the contents (without shell) in a bowl, ready for use. When the egg is broken, how the shell is separated, and how automated the system is, is up to them.
Curriculum Notes
This clip will be relevant for teaching Design & Technology and Chemistry at KS3 and GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 3rd and 4th Level in Scotland. Appears in AQA, OCR, EDEXCEL, CCEA, WJEC, SQA.
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Queen Victoria was the monarch who gave her name to an era of discovery, invention and change in Britain.
In this short film from the BBC Teach series The Victorians, we learn a little about her personal history as we delve into Queen Vic’s diaries.
Narrator Scherrikar Bell highlights some of the amazing things to have come from Queen Victoria’s reign, as well as some of the inventions that were created during her time as queen.
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In this clip from BBC Teach School Radio, cavemen Brian and Dave grapple with the notion of fairness.
Just Think… is a series of stories to help children from 7 - 11 to get to grips with big ideas. Each story is framed around one of life’s big questions, such as ‘what does it mean to be brave?’ or ‘is it ever OK to lie?’.
Drawing on tested ‘philosophy for children’ techniques, the series will help students to probe key ethical and interpersonal concepts and build their capacity to ask high-level questions.
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This assembly framework is part of a series of School Radio assemblies, which can be found on the BBC Teach website.
This assembly is especially appropriate for Martin Luther King Day (third Sunday of January to coincide with his birthday, 15/01/1929) and Black History Month.
Dr King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech was delivered on 28 August 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to a crowd of about 250,000.
It was the culmination of the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom’ and is a key moment in the Civil Rights movement.
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This film is from the series Your World available on BBC Teach.
A lively exploration of two children’s lives on opposite sides of the world.
Talia, 9, from Mossley, Greater Manchester tells us what it’s like to live in a town that experiences all weather types but where the weather is generally quite mild.
She explains that what she likes to do depends on what it’s like outside: playing the piano when it rains and having snowball fights when it snows.
In contrast, Khynaan, 9, from Townsville, Australia, goes to the beach on Christmas day and wears sunscreen all year round.
During cyclone season, his family takes various precautions, taping up the windows and staying inside.
Talia’s family also have to take weather related precautions, using pots and pan to catch the water coming through a leaky roof.
As well as the weather, we learn what it’s like to live where they do and how it affects their aspirations, their hobbies, the food they eat, the wildlife they encounter and why, for very different reasons, they both want to stay living in the same place when they’re older.
Together they illustrate the cultural and geographical differences and similarities of these two distinct places.
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This is film is from the series What makes me, me? and other interesting questions available on BBC Teach.
This animated film is an exploration of the concept of identity using the story of the Ship of Theseus, made famous by British philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
This adaptation of Peter Worley’s ‘The If Machine’, encourages children to consider the meaning of identity and explores personal memories, experiences and the soul.
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This film is taken from The Story of World War One with Jeremy Paxman available on BBC Teach.
Jeremy Paxman visits the Royal Gunpowder Mills in Essex to tell us about the million women who were employed in making munitions during World War One, and the dangers they faced from explosions and exposure to chemicals.
We hear about the huge increase in the quantity and speed of production as a result.
We see archive footage of the millions of British women who entered the workforce during World War One, taking part in a social revolution by making munitions and replacing absent men in their jobs. We hear about the huge demand for workers to make the munitions being rapidly used up in this new industrial war.
When David Lloyd George became Minister for Munitions in May 1915, he decided to recruit huge numbers of women to make up the shortfall. We see photos and archive footage of women working in factories, fields, as bus conductors and firefighters.
Teacher Notes
KS3 Use as a starter and example for a research project into local history featuring women in WW1. Draft two speeches by David Lloyd-George, first in 1914 trying to encourage women to work then another in 1918 celebrating their contribution.
KS4 GCSE/ National 5/Higher Use as part of a discussion about the greatest consequence of women in the work-place. Was it the social impact or the help towards victory that was the most significant?
Curriculum Notes
This clip will be relevant for teaching History. This topic appears in at KS3 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and OCR, Edexcel, AQA and WJEC/Eduqas GCSE/KS4 in England and Wales and CCEA GCSE in Northern Ireland. It also appears in National 5 and Higher in Scotland.
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This film is from the series Shakespeare Themes available on BBC Teach.
An exploration of different examples of how women are portrayed in Shakespeare’s plays.
In Shakespeare’s day women had very little power or status, but were an integral part of society.
In ‘Othello’ women are portrayed as innocent victims, while in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ they are possessions of their husbands and fathers.
But in ‘Macbeth’ women are portrayed as strong, powerful and ambitious.
Teacher Notes
This clip could be used as an introduction to looking in more detail at the role of women in Shakespeare’s plays.
Students could take one of his plays and find examples of the influence female characters have on the plot.
Students could explore the different kinds of female characters in Shakespeare’s plays.
This could be linked to a study of gender inequality, and the difficulties faced by females in positions of power and influence throughout history.
Curriculum Notes
This clip will be relevant for teaching English Literature at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Also 3rd and 4th level in Scotland.
This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC, CCEA and SQA.
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This film is from the series Little Stargazing available on BBC Teach.
Astronaut, Jeff Hoffman, helps the children launch their very own rockets and describes the feeling of weightlessness.
They then speak to NASA astronaut Bonnie Dunbar over an internet video call.
Bonnie answers their questions about living in space and shows them some amazing videos of astronauts in space.
Teacher Notes
This clip could be used to develop an awareness of space rockets and the work of astronauts.
The class could discuss together how the first men on the moon were part of the Apollo 11 mission, finding out about their rocket, Saturn V, which had three different sections, with a command or service module and a lunar module at the top.
Children could then make an air rocket from a small empty drinks carton.
Ask children to think about what an astronaut needs to be good at and encourage children to find out from books and the internet about how people become astronauts, and about the work they do in space.
Curriculum Notes
This clip will be relevant for teaching Physics or Science Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 in England and Northern Ireland, Key Stage 2 in Wales and First / Second Level in Scotland.
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This film is from the series The Facts about Non-Fiction available on BBC Teach.
In this short film, author Michael Rosen explains that writing a recount requires an understanding of chronological order or sequencing, and structuring.
Michael outlines that recount writing should have a beginning, a middle and an ending.
He also describes how pupils can use emotive language to make their writing more interesting.
Teacher Notes
In this film two different planning skeletons are presented – a timeline and a picture to sequence events. You could use one or both of these planning skeletons in a shared/guided writing session to demonstrate how to plan a recount. Pupils can then choose which skeleton they prefer.
You could read a picture book to your pupils and ask them to sequence key events from the story using either the timeline or the picture diagram. Pupils may use these skeletons as their own planning skeletons.
Curriculum Notes
This short film will be relevant for teaching English at KS1 and KS2 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 1st and 2nd Level in Scotland.
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This film is from the series The A-Z of Religion and Beliefs available on BBC Teach.
Perhaps the single most famous person in history, Jesus is a superstar of religion.
He is not only the founder of Christianity, but also an important figure in Judaism and Islam.
This engaging summary of his life and legacy presents the historical figure of Jesus as a religious leader, and details the significance of his life and death in different religious traditions.
Students will be introduced to the concepts of resurrection and the Holy Trinity that make Jesus so special for Christians, while also learning about the different roles that the Islamic and Jewish tradition have assigned him.
Teacher Notes
You could ask your students to discuss the concept of the Holy Trinity.
In groups, students could compare and contrast the different roles that Jesus has been assigned in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and discuss why that might be the case.
Students could then talk about the concept of Messiah in Judaism and Christianity.
Curriculum Notes
This short film will be relevant for teaching KS3 Religious Studies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 3rd and 4th Level Religious and Moral Education in Scotland.
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The story of Little Red Riding Hood told in seven fun video clips for children aged 5-7 years old from BBC Teach School Radio.
The animation is accompanied by a resource pack suitable for use at home or in school.
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This BBC Teach School Radio series Heroes of Troy targets objectives from the Music curriculum at Key Stage 2. Vocal coach David Grant has seven exciting songs to learn, each one linking to an episode of the story of the Trojan War.
Each of the songs has a tutorial video in which David teaches the songs in a lively style that will engage with a young audience, the first of which can be seen here.
There is also a playscript which incorporates the songs and music in a performance. Overall it’s an ideal resource for combining music with the History topic Ancient Greece.
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The Afro-Caribbean traditional tale of Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock is told in two short video episodes for KS1 by BBC Teach, the first of which can be seen here.
The resource pack to go with the animation features worksheets and activities, suitable for both learning at home and at school. Individual worksheets and activities can be downloaded on the BBC Teach website.
Anansi discovers a clever trick for getting food from the other animals in the forest, but Little Deer has a plan to play Anansi at his own game.
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This film is from the sers Explain This … GCSE Science available on BBC Teach.
This video demonstrates the GCSE Biology and Combined Science required practical to investigate osmosis in plant tissue, included in both AQA and Edexcel specifications.
Osmosis is a challenging concept, and this investigation is also challenging in terms of the manipulation, organisation and number of practical skills needed. This video helps to ensure the concept itself is understood as well as how to generate and interpret the data collected.
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This film is from the series Shakespeare Themes available on BBC Teach.
An exploration of the sources and influences in Shakespeare’s plays.
Shakespeare pulled in influences from many sources. In Julius Caesar he borrows phrases and words from other writers.
In Macbeth we find him using his knowledge of the Bible as a reference.
While in Romeo and Juliet he uses elements of nature to reflect emotion.
Teacher Notes
This film could be used to look in more detail at what influenced Shakespeare’s writing and the influence his work has had on others.
Students could take one of his plays and find examples of influences and sources in his storytelling process.
Students could explore the different kinds of sources Shakespeare takes inspiration from and how best to stage his plays when trying to add the influence of modern society.
Curriculum Notes
This clip will be relevant for teaching English Literature at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Also 3rd and 4th level in Scotland.
This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC, CCEA and SQA.
The purpose of BBC’s content is to inform, educate and entertain. As such, students, teachers, schools, and other established educational bodies may utilise such content for educational purposes via an ERA Licence.
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