Teachers TV: Honesty and Lateral Thinking

’Lesson Starters’ presents a series of six short video clips, designed to be in Key Stage 2 citizenship lessons on an interactive whiteboard. The clips aim to stimulate thinking and generate discussion. They will encourage children to use their imagination and build on each other’s ideas.

Each clip ends with a question to prompt discussion. For example, in the opening clip a man runs through a city centre and makes a 999 call. The question posed is “Why does he make the call? The clips can be used effectively as thinking ‘warm-ups’ during a wide range of lessons.

A series of six short video clips designed to be used with KS2 children on the interactive whiteboard. The clips aim to stimulate thinking and generate discussion. They will encourage children to use their imagination and build on each other’s ideas. The accompanying web notes suggest classroom work before and after teachers use the material to support the creativity and thinking skills agendas, e.g. evaluating information, comparing and contrasting, drawing inferences and making deductions, using evidence, justifying, anticipating consequences, and imagining. Each clip ends with a question to prompt class, paired or group discussion. For example, in the opening clip a man runs through a city centre and makes a 999 call. The question posed is - Why does he make the call? All the thinking skills are relevant to all curriculum areas, so the clips can be used effectively as thinking ‘warm-ups’ during a wide range of lessons