educational television programs

 

BBC Schools This is a great resource - the school programs are shown on TV during the day and sometimes in the wee hours -( a sky + box is useful here!). The timetable can be found here

What I do is sit down and work out which programs might be interesting for us, then each week set the recorder to record the weeks programs. We prefer to stack up the programs and watch them in a shorter time span - say one a day over a week, rather than say once a week over several weeks - but that is what suits my son and his attention span. The great thing is you can make this work for you.

There are often follow up games and worksheets etc on the website, which can be nice to go to after watching the program or series. Knowing we are going to be (or are right now) watching a program on a particular subject - I can have borrowed or bought some books that subject , and even plan a day trip and fit that in with our TV watching. We probably only spend half and hour to an hour a day watching educational programs, but they are good for those that do better with visual learning, and are a good launch into subjects. After watching a programm on WWII, we then went out and went to the local church and looked at the war memorial, then talked about the family members that were in the war and so on. After watching a program on the Romans, we looked at some books I had borrowed from the library, and then had a day trip to a local musuem to see some Roman finds, tying it all together.

 

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