Film Education -

Animation

• Relevance: KS2, KS1
• Subjects: ICT, Art & Design, Art, Literacy
• Synopsis: A beginner's guide to animation

Coming Soon?

• Relevance: KS2
• Subjects: Literacy, ICT, Citizenship
• Synopsis: Taking film and cinema as its focus, Coming Soon? explores how intellectual property and copyright are needed to support creativity and innovation. This site provides a taste of the interactive educational DVD-ROM resource for primary schools along with an order form for your school's free copy.

Local History

• Relevance: KS2
• Subjects: History, Geography, Design & Technology
• Synopsis: This resource provides an overview of UK cinema history as a focus for local history study. It features activities related to oral history, model making and map work as well as a gallery of stills for enquiry.

Maths + Movies

• Relevance: KS2
• Subjects: Mathematics
• Synopsis: These online activities accompany the Maths+Movies interactive disc, to be published in Spring 2011. They aim to provide learners with a stimulating and creative approach to using and applying the mathematical concepts that are taught at upper Primary level. On the interactive disc, pupils will use the world of film distribution as the context to work with all aspects of maths - from partitioning to fractions to shape, space, measure and data handling.

Sound

• Relevance: KS2
• Subjects: Music, Literacy
• Synopsis: This resource contains a series of tasks and clips to help pupils understand the purpose of music and sound in film.

Teaching Trailers Primary resource

• Relevance: KS2
• Subjects: Literacy, ICT
• Synopsis: Teaching Trailers Primary is a flexible online resource with instant application for the classroom. Featuring brand-new content on a range of trailers for 2011's film releases, the resources include detailed teachers' notes, lessons plans and a scheme of work that enable learners to explore film trailers as persuasive texts before cutting their own trailer for Cars 2.