Teachers TV 5th Birthday
8 - 14 February
Teachers TV Top 40
To mark the 5th anniversary of the launch of the unique TV channel for everyone who works in schools on 8th February, Teachers TV will be showing 40 of its most memorable programmes between 4-6pm and 8-10pm every day this week.
Go Green Week
To mark 'Go Green Week', the annual student week of action on climate change, Teachers TV is showing a week of programmes looking at some of the issues and potential solutions around global warming.
A Surfers Guide to Climate Change
www.teachers.tv/video/44701
This is story about how Anne, an ordinary surfer girl from Wales becomes an eco-activist.
We follow Anne's journey from Porthcawl to Cornwall, Spain and Switzerland as she learns about the serious threat of climate change and how a surfer can help protect the marine environment.
Monday 8 February, 10pm, Sunday 14 February, 10pm
Climate Challenge
Putting the Carbon Genie Back
www.teachers.tv/video/41782
Can technology on the grand scale solve the problem of the build-up of greenhouse gases? The Norwegian state oil and gas company Statoil is currently experimenting with injecting CO2 into a deep saline formation 800 metres below the North Sea. The Dakota Gasification Company in the United States is dehydrating, compressing and piping CO2
Tuesday 9 February, 10pm, Saturday 13 February, 10pm
The Home Front
www.teachers.tv/video/44721
While politicians wrangle over treaties, ordinary people are quietly coming up with practical solutions to climate change, often saving money as well as cutting emissions. We travel to Cambodia, China, India and the UK to have a look at these personal initiatives.
Wednesday 10 February, 10pm, Saturday 13 February, 10.30pm
Doing the Business
www.teachers.tv/video/44711
In this programme, we discover how sustainable energy need not hamper economic development - by looking at examples of cleaner energy solutions that are doing the business for planet and pocket. We travel to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.
Thursday 11 February, 10pm, Sunday 14 February, 11pm
Bright Ideas
www.teachers.tv/video/44731
In our final programme, we take a look at bright ideas - involving biomass and solar power - that could cut fossil fuel use in the future. We travel to Bangladesh, Malawi and the UK.
Friday 12 February, 10pm
Changing World Shorts
Here Comes the Sun
www.teachers.tv/video/44761
Probably the single most important factor in all physical conditions on our planet is our sun, it's our 'power station'. So how does it work, what is it's life expectancy and how does it effect the earth with sunspot and solar flare activity? Scientists are now recognising the sun has seasons and cycles too, some of these are over immense periods of time.
Tuesday 9 February, 10.25pm, Saturday 13 February, 10.25pm
Wild Weather (web tbc)
Scientists are only just starting to understand the major weather patterns like El Nino and how hurricanes are formed. Are we changing the weather and could we possibly control it in future?
Wednesday 10 February, 10.25pm
Humanity
www.teachers.tv/video/45391
Population growth predictions are staggering, what strategies are in place to feed the burgeoning human species? Another major concern recently has been pandemics. Only a generation ago scientific thought was that we had conquered all the major health threats to humans with antiviral, inoculation and anti-biotics, so where are the new threats like super bugs coming from? What are scientists doing to mitigate the new threats?
Thursday 11 February, 10.25pm
Solutions
www.teachers.tv/video/45401
Scientists are full of strategies to adapt to changing physical conditions, we'll look at some of these. Could we cope with worst case scenarios of global warming or freezing, if so how might we respond to these scenarios? Fuel based on burning carbon is now seen as the ultimate evil, but without it there would have been no industrial revolution. How much longer can we expect to be reliant on oil? Clearly new sources of energy are needed, but what is practical now and what may be just around the corner?
Friday 12 February, 10.25pm
Other Highlights
Great Children's Writers - Michael Morpurgo
www.teachers.tv/video/39362
Michael Morpurgo answers the questions of Year 5 pupils in a Bristol school, including - Did you write when you were at school? Why do you write about animals, and about war? How do you write? Do you have a favourite place for writing? and Which book are you most proud of?
His answers will be of enormous help to any teacher who has used his books in the classroom, and children reading his books will get a great deal out of them too.Wednesday 10 February, 6pm
KS3/4 Global Citizenship - Operation Amphibian
www.teachers.tv/video/37741
Operation Amphibian is a simulation activity designed to show young children how the Red Cross deals with emergencies. In the simulation primary school children must work together to respond to a severe flood which has displaced an entire village.
The project is peer-led; secondary pupils lead the primary school children through the entire simulation. At Hamstead Hall Community Learning Centre in Birmingham, a lively group of twelve Year 8 students volunteer to act as peer educators and run the project themselves.
We follow Gill Allbutt of the Red Cross and her team training the peer educators and developing their leadership skills. We track their journey and hear their reflections on the activity and what they have learnt.
Monday 8 February, 7pm
