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.
This clip is from the BBC Teach series, Same But Different, which features primary children with a range of disabilities, learning differences and medical conditions and aims to encourage understanding and inclusion, both at school and in the wider world.
Phoebe is seven-years-old and lives with diabetes but she still loves trick or treating at Halloween - even if she has to be careful around sweets.
In her own words she describes managing her condition daily with the help of her mum, teachers and friends, while still enjoying her favourite activities.
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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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Arek Hersh recounts his experience as a prisoner, at the age of only 14, in the notorious death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This is from the series, Children of the Holocaust, from BBC Teach.
PLEASE NOTE: This short film contains disturbing scenes. Teacher review is recommended prior to use in class.
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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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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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Find out all about the Battle of Hastings in this clip from BBC Teach, part of a history series for the classroom about 1066.
In late September 1066, the winds change direction and William of Normandy finally arrives in Sussex for the decisive battle against the Anglo Saxon army led by King Harold.
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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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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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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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This short film from the BBC Teach series, Migration, presented by David Olusoga, explores the lives of some of the hundreds of Black migrants who were in England during the Tudor period of the 1500s.
Olusoga visits The National Archives in Kew, where he meets Dr. Miranda Kaufmann.
They discuss John Blanke, a trumpeter in the court of Henry VIII, who was so well established that he actually submitted a request for a pay rise, and a diver, Jacques Francis, who gave evidence in a court case.
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In this clip from the BBC Teach series, Icons, Sir Trevor McDonald reports on Nelson Mandela, who went from freedom fighter to become South Africa’s first Black president.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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