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Moving Shorts
Film in the classroom offers a rich and illuminating focus of study for a wide range of literary concepts. This DVD compilation includes 10 carefully selected films ideal for teaching a range of skills and concepts relevant to the media component of the English curriculum.
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Real Shorts
An exciting way of developing your students' understanding of how fiction and non-fiction differ, using 15 carefully selected stimulating and engaging short films. The DVD compilation and teaching guide is suitable for students aged 11 and over.
Teaching pack with DVD compilation
Screening Shorts
This teaching pack - including a video compilation of six short films accompanied by a teaching pack on a CD-Rom - introduces innovative ways to teaching with film that support work within the National Curriculum framework for Literacy and English in years 7, 8 and 9.
Teaching pack with DVD compilations
Macbeth on Film
Introduction to, and outlines of, different film interpretations of Macbeth.
Teaching pack with VHS compilation
Moving Image Media in English series
A series of teaching resources designed to support the moving image media requirement in the National Curriculum.
Teaching packs
Film and Media Schemes of Work
A selection of Schemes of Work for aspects of film and media curricula devised by teachers who have taken part in the bfi/ Middlesex University MA module Introduction to Media Education.
Free Teaching Notes, PDF, RTF
Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland
These teaching notes support the film Alice in Wonderland, released by the BFI on DVD.
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Ghost Stories on Film
A resource which supports English at Key Stages 3 and 4 and Media Studies at GCSE. Jerome Monahan discusses developing ghost stories for film by exploring three titles recently released by bfi Video.
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Harold Pinter's The Caretaker
Lesson plans in support of a study of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker.
Free Teaching Notes
Citizenship
A Window on the World?
A teacher's guide to studying television in the context of the citizenship curriculum.
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The World in the Movies
A guide to exploring and teaching citizenship issues using feature films.
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History
Film as Evidence: Britain in 1900
A unique resource for teaching history to 9- to 15-year-olds.
Teaching pack with VHS compilation
Mitchell & Kenyon
These notes have been written to accompany Electric Edwardians, the DVD of the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection, and can also be used to support the touring programme.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Teaching notes to support the use of this film, for teaching about Britain in the Victorian era, in History at Key Stage 3 and at A Level.
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The Double Headed Eagle
Teaching notes to support the use of this film, for teaching about Germany between the two World Wars, in History at A Level and GCSE.
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Art
Into Animation
This pack provides a clear introduction for teachers who would like to teach animation or include animation activities as part of their class work. It explains how to produce animated work in the classroom and how animation can be integrated into the curriculum.
Teaching pack with VHS compilation
Media in Art
A stimulating introduction to the relationship between art and the moving image.
Teaching pack with VHS compilation
Cross-Curriculum
Moving Images in the Classroom
A secondary teachers' guide to using film and TV, outlining eight basic techniques and practical activities for the close study of film and television in the classroom which are are mapped on to English and eight other curriculum subjects.
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Images and Reality
Highlights how TV news footage can be used to encourage students to learn about the developing world.
Teaching pack with VHS compilation
Disabling Imagery?
A free online teaching pack with a wealth of information and activities and lesson plans around disability issues and moving image media, supported by a DVD with carefully selected short films and film clips.
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