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PAYU Price Code link: Price Code M
Episode Length 60 min
This series tells the stories of ten extraordinary and inspiring people who changed the world. These are stories of discover, determination, invention and bravery. Each story begins when they were children, illustrating an event that shaped them or set them on their path.
Episode 1:
This Episode looks at how Florence Nightingale revolutionised nursing for ever. It shows how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and follows Harriet Tubman as she frees slaves. It also looks at how Isambard Kingdom Brunel tunnelled through Box Hill to build the Great Western Railway, and watches Mary Anning discover the first Ichthyosaur fossil.
See also:
BD0010 Prehistoric Animals (KS2)
| https://wslr.co.uk/catalog/view/10 |
BD0009 Dinosaurs (KS1)
| https://wslr.co.uk/catalog/view/9 |
Episode 2:
This Episode looks at Grace Darling's life in a lighthouse and the night she saved nine lives. It shows how Edward Jenner discovered a vaccine against smallpox and follows Rosa Parks as she refuses to give up her seat on a bus and inspires a movement towards justice and equality. Plus it follows Dr Thomas Barnardo as he sets up a home for street children and watches Elizabeth Fry change the lives of prisoners at Newgate.
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Description
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code M
Episode Length 60 min
A new way of showing how maths is used in the real world to help create a sustainable future. Stefan Gates meets people using maths to find innovative solutions to the ecological challenges of our age. This programme is targeted at primary age students, viewers learn about time, distance, number patterns and operations as Stefan visits a farm in Devon that uses maths to calculate the most environmentally friendly way of delivering organic food boxes. He visits a vast recycling plant to explore how 2-D and 3-D shapes are used to sort and reuse rubbish, and visits a school that uses recycled objects in many different ways. At a brand new hospital in London he learns about measuring and controlling temperature and visits a school that uses data collection, tables and charts to run an energy saving campaign.
See also: BD0024 Saving Planet Earth - What Can I Do?
| https://wslr.co.uk/catalog/view/4945 |
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PAYU Price Code link: Price Code L
6 discs
A hand-picked collection of programmes and clips to support the theme of "Earth and Space”.
Boxed set includes:
Disc 1
Detailed contents and useful weblinks.
Disc 2
Earth and Space clips - 22 clips (detailed information is given on disc 1)
Disc 3
Sound effects CD:
"Earth, Sun & Moon - Greatest Speeches" - historical recordings including Neil Armstrong talking about the Moon landings.
"Space Travel & Aliens" - includes flying saucers, meteors and alien sound effects.
Disc 4
Planet 51
Cert: U, Length: 1 hour 24 mins, Year of release: 2009
Witty and family-friendly animation. Astronaut Chuck Baker lands on Planet 51, expecting to plant a flag, hit a few golf balls and go home. But this planet is inhabited by small, green aliens whose society mirrors that of 1950s America, complete with a fascination with alien-invasion films. The aliens are therefore terrified by their "invader", just as he is by them. Only teenage astronomer Lem appears unperturbed. He befriends Chuck and, in shades of ET, hides him in his home, before they embark on a journey to get Chuck back to his ship before it returns to Earth.
Disc 5
Blow Your Mind: Spectacular Space (9 episodes, 15 mins)
Dr Chris and Xand Van Tulleken return to explore the most interesting and unusual aspects of the known universe.
Disc 6
Selected episodes
Absolute Genius - "Caroline Herschel" (30 mins) - Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Caroline Herschel, the first woman to spot a comet in our solar-system.
Absolute Genius Super Tech - "Space Tech" (30 mins) - Dick and Dom reveal three geniuses whose technological ideas have pioneered space travel.
All Over the Workplace - "Space" (30 mins) - Two children get an out-of-this-world experience when they work with space scientists who make and test equipment that actually gets sent out into the universe.
BBC Primary: Stargazing Challenges (30 mins) - Blue Peter presenters want to learn more about the solar system so they challenge two scientists to find out more. They look at how to make telescopes and rockets and use a toilet roll to measure the distances between planets.
Blue Peter Goes Stargazing (30 mins) - Barney Harwood joins Brian Cox to present a special show from Jodrell Bank unlocking the wonders of the solar system.
Brain Freeze (2 episodes, 10 mins each) - "Shooting Star": we find out about strange, small worlds of rock and ice that are in orbit in our solar system and how they lead to the most spectacular sights in the night sky; "Space": weird and wonderful things about gravity and the black holes in space that suck in everything that crosses their path.
Mission to the Moon - News from 1969 (4 episodes, 10 mins each) - Using actual newsreel footage from the time, John Suchet and his team present the news surrounding the Apollo 11 mission.
Science Fiction (2 episodes, 5 mins each) - "Is the Moon Made of Cheese?"; "Is There a Dark Side of the Moon?"
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Horrible Histories - Frightful First World War Clips (9 clips) CBBC (DVD)
Code: TD4248
Type: Audio Visual
Key Stages: 2 - 4
Description
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code M
NB: These clips are also available as part of boxed set "BD0002 World War 1". Search for "BD0002" to see a full list of contents and to request this resource.
A collection of "Frightful First World War" clips from Horrible Histories Series 1 - 5.
Clip Length 2 - 4 min
Clip 1. Trench Life & Food.
Clip 2. Women In World War 1 & Zeppelin Bombers.
Clip 3. Boots, Luck & Superstitions.
Clip 4. How World War 1 Started & Fighter Pilots.
Clip 5. The Somme & TNT (Fat).
Clip 6. Trench Life Toilets & Wee.
Clip 7. Trops From Around The world.
Clip 8. Troops & Pests
Clip 9. The Cold & Food.
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Description
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code M
BBC School Radio Broadcast - 3 episodes
Episode length - 20 mins
See also: BD0009 Dinosaurs
| https://wslr.co.uk/catalog/view/9 |
Movement and dance programmes for children aged 6 to 8. This unit takes a variety of approaches to the theme of dinosaurs. Children work together to make dance sequences which show Mary Anning exploring the beach and fossils that she uncovered; the activities of different species such as Ankylosaurus and Triceratops; and exhibits which come to life in a museum.
1 - Mary Anning
2 - The Time of the Dinosaurs
3 - Sleepover at the Museum
Notes taken from BBC School Radio website. Full teacher notes are included with this resource.
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Time to Move - Traditional Stories Collection (AUDIO CD)
Code: PC0085
Type: Audio Visual
Key Stages: 1 - 2
Description
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code M
BBC School Radio Broadcast - 9 episodes
Episode length - 20 mins
4 units of the movement and dance programmes for children aged 6 to 8.
The Hare and the Tortoise
1 - Ready, Steady, Go!
2 - Fast and Frantic, or Slow and Steady?
The King's New Clothes
1 - The Cunning Tricksters
2 - He's Got No Clothes
The Brave Tin Soldier
1 - Tin Soldiers
2 - The Incredible Adventure
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1 - Rats Everywhere!
2 - The Rats Are Led Away
3 - The Children Follow
Notes taken from BBC School Radio website. Full teacher notes are included with this resource.
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PAYU Price Code link: Price Code M
Episode Length 30 min
Stories from the Home Front 1914-1918 - a special programme to launch a unique partnership between the BBC and Imperial War Museums. Robert Hall presents.
We make every effort to ensure resources are appropriate for school use, however please watch prior to use to ensure suitability for your class.
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Clip length - 1 minute
A compilation of short "Funky Facts" clips from the Go Jetters. Ubercorn gives his "Funky Top 3" facts for different locations and landmarks in Africa.
Avenue of the Boababs, Madagascar
Lake Retba, Senegal
Masai Mara National Park, Kenya
Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
Sahara Desert
The Sphinx, Egypt
Table Mountain, South Africa
Timgad Ruins, Algeria
Description
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code M
Episode length - 25 - 35 minutes
Series in which Dick and Dom reveal the genius of famous inventors, scientists, pioneers and more. In each episode they come up with their own "genius" idea, inspired by that week's genius.
1 - Wright Brothers - the men behind the first powered and controlled flight
2 - Alexander Fleming - the scientist who discovered penicillin
3 - Guglielmo Marconi - known for his pioneering work on long distance radio transmission
4 - Karl Benz - the man behind the first petrol-powered car
5 - Caroline Herschel - the first person to spot a comet in the solar system
See also: BD0017 Earth and Space (KS2)
| https://wslr.co.uk/catalog/view/4806 |
6 - Al Jazari - ancient engineer who built mind blowing machines
7 - Charles Darwin - theory of evolution
8 - Alan Turing - WWII code breaker and man behind the modern-day computer
9 - Marie Curie - the scientist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity
10 - Fox Talbot - photography pioneer
Curriculum links -History: the lives of significant individuals; Science - develop understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science, recognise that scientific ideas change over time.
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