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It's March, which means that spring has officially sprung, so this month the Education Zone is celebrating all things shiny and new.

The evocative Songs of the Coalfields provides the inspiration for a brand new English lesson on industrial folksongs. With its focus on the tone, mood, tempo, and lyrics of ballads, this piece could also easily form the basis of a provocative music lesson. A Science lesson on two comic public information films from the 1940s offers a novel approach to exploring the spread of diseases, and to celebrate Tim Burton's new film, we have a curious musical starter activity (in Top and Tails) on Alice in Wonderland (1903).

Wonderland also provides the focus of our monthly collection on alternative archive Alice titles, as well as the wonderfully weird material we've added to The Cutting Room - our online editing tool. Get inspired!

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OTHER WONDERLANDS

 

The Cutting Room

Create your own mini-masterpieces with our exciting new editing tool.

SPOTLIGHT ON...

 

Coal

The 'black diamond' and its effect on British life explored on screen.

SCREENING THEMES

Essentially British  

Screening Themes

Online exhibitions that use short films and extracts to explore particular themes including 'Britishness' and identity.

Tops and Tails

Have a browse through some starter and plenary ideas using everything from 1890s trick films to modern day sitcoms.

Tops and Tails

Show and Tell

One film, four teachers: using the silent 'documentary' A Day in the Life of a Coalminer (1910).

Show and Tell

Lesson Bank

A bank of detailed lessons and resources, created by teachers for teachers.

Lesson Bank

Do It Yourself

An index of films, TV programmes and collections that teachers might find useful when planning lessons. Do with them what you will!

Do It Yourself