Channel 4 - Learning International

Just So Darwin - BAFTA Nominated - Primary Learning

13 x 5-minute programmes

Sam, a 7-year-old tortoise, loves to hear his Grandad Charlie tell stories about different animals or plants - and why they are the way they are. The stories that Grandad Charlie tells include key ideas based on Darwin’s theory and are relevant to the science curriculum for 6 to 10 year-olds

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Nobel's Greatest Hits

13 x 10-minute programmes

This series celebrates more than 100 years of The Nobel Prize – awards for physics, chemistry and medicine. Under the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the guilt-ridden inventor of dynamite, prizes are made ‘to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind’.

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Spacefiles - the Universe Unveiled

26 x 10-minute programmes

Spacefiles is a visual compendium of space and astronomy – 26 ten-minute episodes presenting, in a uniquely flexible format, the Solar System, our Galaxy, and the Universe beyond – each programme or ‘file’ offering a crisp, intelligent, picture-driven story.

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Stargazing - a graphic guide to the heavens

6 x 30-minute programmes

On a crystal-clear evening, on vacation perhaps, how often do we contemplate the night sky and promise to learn the stars and constellations? Somehow, we never get round to it. Charts in newspapers look too complicated. Astronomical handbooks are equally daunting.

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The Complete Cosmos

25 x 10-minute programmes

A brilliant award-winning series on space and astronomy. With panache and clarity, 25 ten-minute episodes probe the Solar System, our Milky Way galaxy, and the depths of the Universe – each segment telling a crisp, picture-driven story.

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Symbols and symbolism

1 x 15-minute programme

In this programme, Year 6 pupils learn about symbols and symbolism in both religion and their own lives before completing an activity.

The pupils of Easington Colliery Primary School create their own 'memorial' book, which covers symbols and symbolism in religion, their home life and their primary school life.

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Telling Tales

10 x 5-minute programmes

This series of animations, aimed at 7 to 11-year-olds, takes traditional tales and gives them a modern spin. Visually entertaining and rich in dialogue, the stories have been produced in English, French, Spanish, German, Mandarin and Arabic – and provide a unique language-teaching resource for primary schools.

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Being... Chinese, Spanish, German, French

4 x 30-minute programmes

A series of four programmes comprising ten location-based sections, each containing insights into the life and culture of the country as perceived by children. Each programme links closely with other subject areas and includes key language relevant to 8 to 11-year-old school children. The commentary for each programme is in English but all the actuality for each programme is in the language of each country.

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I Maths

9 x 10-minute programmes

I Maths consists of short, visually engaging and stylish mathematical sequences for teachers to use with 11 to 16-year-old pupils as starting points to look at the world in a mathematical way - and to discuss and investigate the maths they see.

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I D&T

1 x 30-minute programme

I D&T shows Design & Technology in action in real industrial and commercial settings. Four case studies target key areas in the D&T curriculum for 14 to 16-year-old students, but also appeal to anyone interested in modern industrial processes.

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