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Enjoy our CV version of an i-player for computer, whiteboard or home TV. Select a starting video from this playlist, then browse others full screen using the showcase navigation arrows. The showcase is like a TV box set, and contains hours and hours of non-stop viewing. The blue links in the playlist tell you where each video is located for teaching purposes. You can start each school day with a new video and more. Use the text under video 1 as a guide for usage.

1. Why don't skydivers crash to the ground?
A hugely exciting sport video with many uses.
Supports: textbooks Science forces (6E)
Playing time: 2 min


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2. Why do kiteboarders need science?
A very graceful and exciting sport video with many uses.
Supports: textbooks Science forces in action (6E) and Flight including friction (4E) Note: this kind of video can be used in many situations and not just science but also sport and geography.
Playing time: 5 min

3. What is the problem of living by the beach?
Seaside towns are long and thin as people want to have a sea view. But what happens in storms?
Supports: textbook The Coast Book
Playing time: 4 min

4. Amazing nature: windows in the desert
Weathering has removed soft rock faster than hard rock leaving amazing windows in this desert cliff.
Supports: textbook Science 3D rocks and soils; Geography river
Playing time: 4 min

5. Why do we make our beaches so ugly?
Groynes are found on many beaches, but why are they necessary, and why are they in some places and not others.
Supports: textbook The Coast Book
Playing time: 4 min

6. The largest Roman fort north of the Alps
This is a famous fortress built by the Romans on the south coast of England. It was so large that it dwarfs the castle built inside it in later years.
Supports: textbook Ancient Rome, Romans in Britain
Playing time: 5 min

7. Stone Age burial chamber
This is a famous long barrow on the Berkshire Downs. The inspirational aerial view helps to set the barrow in its correct landscape context.
Supports: textbook Stone Age
Playing time: 3 min

8. Origin of markets
A really valuable ground and air view with diagrams to show how a market developed close to a river bridging point.
Supports: textbooks Where we live (settlement): Saxons, Vikings, Tudors. This is a classic video to support both history (saxons/vikings/medieval/tudors) as well as geography settlement. Note: the second part of this video has music but no voice-over to give an opportunity to look at the buildings carefully.
Playing time: 3 min

9. Cheetah
One of the 5 big cats.
Supports: textbooks 'Safari' and also Science Habitats. Use it also for food chains, savanna climate, camouflage, and more.
Playing time: 1 min

10. Rhinoceros
The second-largest land mammal.
Supports: textbooks 'Safari' and also Science Habitats and endangered animals
Playing time: 1 min

11. Tarantula
A very large spider.
Supports: textbooks Science Habitats
Playing time: 1 min

12. Dung beetle
A very large beetle that lays eggs inside dung balls.
Supports: textbooks Science Habitats
Playing time: 3 min

13. Puffin
A stocky sea bird with a bright beak.
Supports: textbooks Science Habitats
Playing time: 1 min

14. Elephant
The world's largest land animal.
Supports: textbooks Science Habitats
Playing time: 3 min

15. Lion
The heaviest of the big cats.
Supports: textbooks Science Habitats
Playing time: 3 min

16. 19th century country cooking
Cooking in an open fire.
Supports: textbooks Victorian times American frontier
Playing time: 5 min

17. Snowdon glacial features
The main cwms/corries and aretes as seen from Snowdon summit.
Supports: textbook Mountain
Playing time: 3 min

18. Iceland's splitting continent
The fissure marking the edge of the American and European crustal plates.
Supports: textbook Mountain
Playing time: 3 min

19. Greenland ice sheet
An aerial view of Greenland to see ice sheets, valley glaciers and more.
Supports: textbook Mountain; Weather (cloud types)
Playing time: 3 min

20. Dinosaur NP
The amazing finds at Dinosaur National Park.
Supports: textbook Dinosaur; Fossils; Evolution
Playing time: 3 min