Learning resources for Secondary schools
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Ciné-minis NEW!
A DVD with a 'starter' booklet and online teaching guide resource to support teaching and learning French with short films.
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.
Free Teaching Guide, PDF
English
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.
eaching pack to support DVD pack available from the BFI Filmstore.
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 to support DVD pack available from the BFI Filmstore.
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
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
Citizenship
A Window on the World?
A teacher's guide to studying television in the context of the citizenship curriculum.
Free Teaching Notes, PDF
The World in the Movies
A guide to exploring and teaching citizenship issues using feature films.
Free Teaching Notes, PDF
Disabling Imagery?
A teaching pack (pdf) with a wealth of information and activities and lesson plans around disability issues and moving image media. The associated DVD with carefully selected short films and film clips is available from the BFI Filmstore.
History
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.
Free Teaching Notes
