Video platform. Lessons here use teacher-selected videos shown to the class or embedded elsewhere. Student accounts are 13+, so younger pupils watch through the teacher or an embed.
Interactive Amplify
Grade 8 answer five checkpoint questions in an Edpuzzle video on digestion, and the teacher reteaches the one most of the class got wrong before they move on.
Passive Amplify
Grade 5 watch a coral reef extract from Our Planet in Edpuzzle, where the teacher's recorded voice notes stop the video at five points to model an inference.
Grade 7 listen to the 1890 wax-cylinder recording of Tennyson reading 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', replayed by the teacher, and mark on printed copies where his voice lands hardest in each line.
The teacher shows a filmed stage production of the opening storm scene twice, first for the chaos and then with closed captions on, so students can catch the lines the storm is meant to drown out.
Grade 7 watch a museum film of a restored spinning mule running, replayed by the teacher at quarter speed, and mark on a sketch where the piecer and the scavenger had to work while the carriage moved.
Before practising underarm throws at hoops, children watch a short coaching clip at half speed on the hall screen, paused at step, swing, release and follow-through, and hold each position as a statue.
Before their first circuit, students watch a clip on how the heart responds to exercise in Edpuzzle, at their own pace, with the teacher's recorded voice notes at five points linking it to the circuit.
Grade 3 watch three short clips the teacher has chosen, molten iron being poured, a gallium spoon melting in warm water and liquid nitrogen boiling in a bowl, and place each material on a temperature line in their books.
Passive Replace
Grade 6 watch a ten-minute tutorial on the board that builds a draw-a-square program with a repeat block, then predict in their books what other loops would draw.
Before their own puppetry work, Grade 7 watch Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler's TED talk, where the puppeteers show how breath and small movements make the War Horse puppet seem alive.
The class watches Michael Rosen perform his poem Chocolate Cake on his YouTube channel, with the teacher replaying short sections so children can hear how he uses pace, pauses and voices.
Grade 6 watch Rodrigo Blaas's animated short Alma twice on the board and collect setting details in their books before writing their own eerie openings.
The teacher plays a GCSE context video on An Inspector Calls, pausing at each key term so Grade 8 can log it in a vocabulary grid in their books.
The teacher plays a vetted clip on waterfalls and meanders from YouTube on the board, pausing after each landform while Grade 8 take notes, then they draw an annotated oxbow lake sequence.
Grade 6 watch an eight-minute documentary clip on the Black Death on the board, take structured notes and write a paragraph on the change that mattered most.
Grade 8 watch a twelve-minute documentary extract on the Anglo-German naval race, taking notes under three headings, and write a paragraph on whether it made war more likely.
Grade 3 watch a short animation of a chocolate bar split into halves, quarters and eighths, drawing each stage in their books, and write their first fraction family.
The teacher plays a 12-minute worked-solutions video on Pythagoras' theorem on the board, pausing between problems while Grade 8 copy the working, before they practise in their books.
Children watch the official Numberblocks episode about Five on the class screen, then make five on their fingers and with cubes on the carpet.
The teacher plays a five-minute vlog made for Spanish learners, in which a teenager in Madrid describes her weekend, twice on the board while Grade 8 complete a listening worksheet.
The teacher shows a short animation on how the heart and lungs respond to exercise, students copy the key terms, and then each learns to find and count their own pulse.
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