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An engaging animated summary of medical progress through the medieval period from the series Medicine Through Time from BBC Teach.
Using authentic archival illustrations and diagrams this film brings to life the gruesome and bizarre practices that punctuated medical progress throughout the medieval period.
Narrated by actor and impressionist Duncan Wisbey, the pace is quick and tone irreverent.
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This short film, part of the Digital Literacy series from BBC Teach, explores the phenomenon of fake news and outlines why it is important to be able to distinguish it from real news.
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This film is from a GCSE PSHE series on financial literacy, available on BBC Teach.
Steph McGovern tells you all you need to know about pensions before you leave school and go on to work or study.
She explains that the National Insurance scheme takes money directly from your pay to fund a state pension for when you retire.
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This film is from the series In My Shoes available on BBC Teach.
Shanghai lies at the mouth of the Yangtze river on the coast of the East China Sea, and is one of the busiest ports in the world.
Shanghai is a modern city with a sophisticated highway and metro system and an endless stream of shipping traffic navigating its way to the East China Sea.
Juewen is a 10-year-old girl who represents the new generation of driven Chinese children.
She has a very busy school life and then takes lots of extra classes, travelling round the city on the metro to fit in all her activities. We see her in different lessons like cello, model making (design and technology), Olympic maths, English and calligraphy.
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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.
Chinese New Year marks the start of a new lunar year and falls in January/February.
It is celebrated with gifts, fireworks and dragon and lion dances and culminates on the 15th day with a lantern festival.
It is thought to be largest annual human migration as Chinese return home to spend time with their families.
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In this short film from the BBC Teach series, GCSE English Language, storyteller Sophia Thakur and performance poet Solomon O.B. sit a mock English language GSCE exam to demonstrate approaches to creative writing tasks.
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An animated version of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth in a retelling of the classic play set to modern music, part of the Shakespeare in Shorts collection from BBC Teach.
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This film is from a series of short films for secondary schools from a landmark BBC documentary about the last survivors of the Holocaust living in Britain today, available on BBC Teach.
Internationally renowned sculptor Maurice Blik talks about how his experience as a 5-year-old in Bergen-Belsen has influenced him and his work.
Building towards his new exhibition, he recounts the moment when his baby sister died in the camp.
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This is a whole school assembly framework for primary schools on St David’s Day, suitable across both KS1 and KS2. More assembly frameworks are available on BBC Teach.
It explores the customs of St David’s Day and the significance of St David himself. It includes a short video about David and Paulinus - telling the story of David healing the eyesight of his tutor, Paulinus.
It also includes an image gallery quiz about the identity of St David and a voxpops video in which primary school children suggest what ‘a saint’ is.
The downloadable PDF includes links to all the resources as well as the text needed to deliver the assembly.
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In this clip from the series Lost Lands from BBC Teach, young Akbal introduces us to life in the Maya civilisation, which existed in Central America 1,000 years ago.
He tells us about his city’s pyramids, buildings and food, including the importance of maize to their civilisation.
He discusses how you can tell the status of a person by the headdress that he wore, before showing us how the game of Mayan football is played.
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This clip is from the BBC Teach series L8R Youngers 2, exploring the issues faced by a group of young school friends.
It follows the story of Julie, who gets picked on because she is not as physically developed as her peers. Her PE teacher gets her friends to help her overcome the bullying, but will it work long-term?
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This is part of a series of short films on Mary Seacole that can be found on BBC Teach.
Mary is refused work as a nurse, so makes her own way to the battlefields of the Crimea.
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40 of Aesop’s best-known fables are brought to life in adaptations for children aged 5 to 9 from BBC Teach School Radio.
Each story is five minutes long and read by an all-star cast including Brenda Blethyn, the late Richard Briers, Lindsay Duncan, Richard E Grant, Jane Horrocks, Jonathan Pryce and Alison Steadman.
The downloadable Teacher Notes feature tips for writing fables, assessment focuses and activity suggestions for use across drama, speaking and listening and reading.
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This short film from BBC Teach, part of the series World War Two, offers an overview of the events that led to Britain declaring war on Germany in 1939.
We hear from an eye-witness called Moya, who recalls practicing being evacuated and being issued with a gas mask the year before war was declared.
Moya’s account of her childhood should be particularly interesting for children of the same age.
The ‘Did You Know’ section looks at how people prepared for war.
Created in partnership with Imperial War Museums.
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This short film from the BBC Teach series, Get Creative, presents a real-world context for writing a script and challenges children to write a short script for a TV show.
The presenter, Naomi Wilkinson, is on the set studio of a popular CBBC show. A group of children are invited to take on the challenge of writing a short script for characters of their choice from the show.
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In this short film from the BBC Teach series, The Maths Show, mathematician and comedian Matt Parker breaks down key GCSE angle problems into easy steps, including internal angles of polygons and bearings, to help students struggling to get a passing mark.
The questions move through topics that are typical stumbling blocks for students, emphasizing, with graphics, methods to help remember key methods.
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In this clip from the BBC Teach series, Icons, Sanjeev Bhaskar explores how Dr Martin Luther King Jr had a dream of an equal America, free from racial discrimination.
PLEASE NOTE: This short film contains scenes which some people may find upsetting. Teacher review is recommended prior to use in class.
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In this clip, available on BBC Teach, from the series Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragettes, Sally Lindsay examines the life of the leader of the Suffragettes, Emmeline Pankhurst, and traces the people, places, and events that turned her into the leader of the ‘votes for women’ campaign group.
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In this clip from the BBC Teach series Understanding Poetry, poet Joseph Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page.
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This short film is part of our series on The Victorians, available on BBC Teach.
Pablo Fanque was an inspirational performer whose daring stunts, expert horsemanship and generosity captured the attention of the Victorians and The Beatles!
In this short film, we learn a little about his performance skills, passions and the work that he did to help others.
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