Extra, extra! Read all about it! Introduce your students to the characteristics, roles, and purpose of the news. In this lesson, they’ll learn the different categories of news and what makes an event “newsworthy.”
In What Is News?, host Radzi Chinyanganya introduces the concept of news: its history, purpose, and its potential downside. From its earliest iterations, news provides the information needed for people to make decisions and stay safe. Today, technology allows us to learn information in real time on both a local and global scale. It can be overwhelming to know what to give our attention to and what is real or fake, so it’s necessary to be a smart consumer of news and have trusted sources. This video is excerpted from BBC’s My World, a program created for teenagers eager to learn more about the important stories shaping our world.
In The Ongoing Quest for Extraterrestrial Life, the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project, based in the California desert, listens for signals from alien civilizations. Despite using 42 antennas, SETI has not yet detected any evidence of intelligent life. Watch the ongoing efforts of the SETI project, which has been searching for extraterrestrial signals since the 1950s. The focus is on the scientific methods of listening for alien radio signals, rather than transmitting messages, and the challenges researchers face in their quest to detect extraterrestrial intelligence.
In The Death of Stars, narrator Kate Yule explores how stars reach the end of their lives and can no longer fight against their own gravity. Some stars expand, whereas giant stars contract to form black holes, invisible to telescopes. Learn how Jocelyn Bell Burnell built a new telescope which detected pulsars, which emit no visible light, but send out radio waves. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In The First Image of the Elusive Black Hole, narrator Kate Yule describes the impossibility of photographing a black hole because the gravitational pull of black holes can consume entire stars. Learn how Dan Marrone from the University of Arizona attempts to capture photographic evidence of the moment when this takes place using a radio telescope. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In A New Discovery About Black Holes, narrator Kate Yule details how radio telescopes picked up signals from neutron stars in the 1960s. Learn how their discovery suggested that black holes existed. Scientists believed that once something had fallen into a black hole, it appeared to be lost from the Universe forever, until Stephen Hawking suggested that black holes can also emit particles and eventually disappear. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In The Radioactive Secret of the Stars, narrator Kate Yule explains how Einstein discovered that nuclear fusion within stars creates energy. Learn how harnessing this energy led to the creation of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In Marie Curie Discovers Radioactivity, Chris Packham highlights the journey of a brilliant immigrant who transformed science. From discovering radioactivity to developing pioneering cancer treatments, Marie Curie challenged conventions and inspired breakthroughs in atomic science. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century, a documentary series celebrating the achievements of the most influential figures of the era.
In Marie Curie's Incredible Contributions, host Chris Packham recounts how Curie turned personal loss and public scandal into groundbreaking medical contributions. From pioneering mobile X-ray machines during World War I to earning her place in the Panthéon, Curie’s legacy continues to save lives to this day. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century, a documentary series celebrating the achievements of the most influential figures of the era.
Extra, extra! Read all about it! Introduce your students to the characteristics, roles, and purpose of the news. In this lesson, they’ll learn the different categories of news and what makes an event “newsworthy.”
In What Is News?, host Radzi Chinyanganya introduces the concept of news: its history, purpose, and its potential downside. From its earliest iterations, news provides the information needed for people to make decisions and stay safe. Today, technology allows us to learn information in real time on both a local and global scale. It can be overwhelming to know what to give our attention to and what is real or fake, so it’s necessary to be a smart consumer of news and have trusted sources. This video is excerpted from BBC’s My World, a program created for teenagers eager to learn more about the important stories shaping our world.
In The Ongoing Quest for Extraterrestrial Life, the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project, based in the California desert, listens for signals from alien civilizations. Despite using 42 antennas, SETI has not yet detected any evidence of intelligent life. Watch the ongoing efforts of the SETI project, which has been searching for extraterrestrial signals since the 1950s. The focus is on the scientific methods of listening for alien radio signals, rather than transmitting messages, and the challenges researchers face in their quest to detect extraterrestrial intelligence.
In The Death of Stars, narrator Kate Yule explores how stars reach the end of their lives and can no longer fight against their own gravity. Some stars expand, whereas giant stars contract to form black holes, invisible to telescopes. Learn how Jocelyn Bell Burnell built a new telescope which detected pulsars, which emit no visible light, but send out radio waves. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In The First Image of the Elusive Black Hole, narrator Kate Yule describes the impossibility of photographing a black hole because the gravitational pull of black holes can consume entire stars. Learn how Dan Marrone from the University of Arizona attempts to capture photographic evidence of the moment when this takes place using a radio telescope. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In A New Discovery About Black Holes, narrator Kate Yule details how radio telescopes picked up signals from neutron stars in the 1960s. Learn how their discovery suggested that black holes existed. Scientists believed that once something had fallen into a black hole, it appeared to be lost from the Universe forever, until Stephen Hawking suggested that black holes can also emit particles and eventually disappear. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In The Radioactive Secret of the Stars, narrator Kate Yule explains how Einstein discovered that nuclear fusion within stars creates energy. Learn how harnessing this energy led to the creation of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In Marie Curie Discovers Radioactivity, Chris Packham highlights the journey of a brilliant immigrant who transformed science. From discovering radioactivity to developing pioneering cancer treatments, Marie Curie challenged conventions and inspired breakthroughs in atomic science. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century, a documentary series celebrating the achievements of the most influential figures of the era.
In Marie Curie's Incredible Contributions, host Chris Packham recounts how Curie turned personal loss and public scandal into groundbreaking medical contributions. From pioneering mobile X-ray machines during World War I to earning her place in the Panthéon, Curie’s legacy continues to save lives to this day. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century, a documentary series celebrating the achievements of the most influential figures of the era.