Trumedia - Channel Four Resources

Suppliers of DVDs, CD-Roms and other resources to schools and colleges
Trumedia Ltd, PO Box 316, Kidlington, Oxfordshire OX5 2ZY (UK)
Tel/Fax 01865-847837

English Age - Secondary

Macbeth - CD-ROM 157138 £120.00 + VAT Includes whiteboard licence
Suitable for students at all levels

Twelfth Night  - DVD   446463     £33.00+ VAT
Contemporary setting.      With four 'making-of' documentaries
Parminder Nagar and Michael Maloney.

Age 9-14
Jacqueline Wilson Trilogy   445501  DVD £44.00 + VAT
Double Act - The Illustrated Mum - Jacqueline Wilson documentary

Citizenship

Age 9-16 Education for Sustainable Development 443436 DVD £50.00 + vat
Tremendous value - all 12 programmes on one DVD. Includes:

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Water Biodiversity Recycling Energy Food & Farming Cars Rich and Poor
7 x 20 minute programmes; PLUS

Once Upon Planet
Debt Fair Trade Staying Cool What a Waste    Life on Earth
5 x 20 minute programmes

Age 10-14 Political Literacy - Citizen Power 443339 DVD £55.00 + vat

Citizen Power combines television programmes with an integrated website. The series is fronted by Jon Snow but additional items are presented by young people and ITN journalists. The magazine-format television programmes and online facility enables contributors to share their views on citizenship issues. Schools, community groups and individuals can participate in the discussio . Curriculum Connections • Democracy • Conflict resolution • Human rights • Diversity • Global community • Social and ethical issues in the media. Free downloadable activities available online make lesson planning quick and easy Ideal for whiteboard use

Programmes      Government and Democracy     Who Rules? . Your Voice Counts
Your Rights     Animals and us Global Citizenship    One World     War and Peace
Law and Media   Crime and Punishment    . Media Matter
8 x 25 minute programmes

Age 11-19 Origins and Identity 44338x DVD £55.00 + VAT

In Search of the Tartan Turban A Sikh Londoner retraces his steps back to Scotland in search of his cultural origins 1 x 25 minutes

Origins. Five short films in a 30 minute programmes. Polish refugees from WW2.
Caribbean migration. Irish migration. Vietnamese Pakistani restaurant owner.

Race in the 20th Century. 6 x 20 minutes
The Empire Migration Civil Rights Who Are We? Multi-culture Future.

Age 14-19 My Brilliant Career 446836 DVD £35.00 + vat

In fact a lightning tour of careers in 25 x 5 minute programmes

Age 14-19   Consumer Responsibility 443444    DVD £55.00 + VAT

Consumer Power. Real life case studies. Chocolate.   T-Shirts.
Mobile Phones   3 x 25 minutes            Consumer power.   Rights and responsibilities. Globalisation.    Human and environmental impact.

World of Difference.     £10000 to spend on vital local projects.
Gambia     Cambodia    Bolivia     3 x 25 minutes

Design &Technology

Design &Technology     Age 11-16   CD-Roms £150 each + VAT

444440   Food.                                         )    Each CD-ROM covers a design
444483   Textiles                                       )    focus introduction. A case study:
444521   Systems & Electronic Control.      )   Technology focus: Specialist aspects.
444564 Resistant Materials.                    )
444602 Graphic Products.    Similar format plus a look at packaging.

CD-ROMS - Five separate titles and mercifully the price structure now simplified
and includes whole school network licence.

446885   Complete set of five titles: £600 + VAT

446052    Applied Engineering   DVD £35.00 + vat      Age 14-16
The Millennium Bridge & the Falkirk Wheel
Automotive Industry design of car parts.    Design and testing of roller coasters
Football - heading accuracy.        Artificial limbs
5 x 25 minute programmes

Expressive Arts

Four separate DVDs - Secondary School age

The National Gallery 446184 DVD £30.00 + vat
Featuring some of the Gallery's finest works. 13 x 5 minute programmes.

The Tate Gallery 446192 £30.00 + vat
Featuring the most popular exhibits at the Tate. 15 x 15 minute programmes

Talking Art                     443542       £43.00 + vat
Modern artists working in the UK      13 x 13 minute programmes

Each film features three prominent artists speaking in an accessible way about their work . It is a very comprehensive resource, covering the work of over 40 artists all on just one DVD .    Includes almost every well-known modern artist. (For a greater in-depth study of individuals please see the Art and Artists page on Trumedia's website)

Music Collection 443347 £55.00 + vat

Pitch Fever (5 x 20 minutes) asks pupils to create original pieces of music that take them into contrasting musical contexts. Work on initial ideas is followed by a visit to a professional musician for advice.

Rewind (5 x 20 minutes) provides a model for the different ways in which composition is approached in a variety of genres. Each programme starts with a performance, which is then compared with a full studio recording of the same piece. We then ‘rewind’ the creative process back through mixing and recording decisions, to rehearsal, orchestration and the original composition

Geography

Geography               Age 11-16     CD-Roms £150 each + VAT

The following five CD-Rom combine specially selected clips from Channel 4’s most successful geography programmes with text, graphics, image galleries and glossaries
for whole-class teaching, group work or individual study.

Basic format :- 30–40 minutes of full-screen video clips of broadcast quality on each
A gallery of 100 images, which can be copied and pasted into students’ presentations
Animations where appropriate   Wordbank    Glossary of terms .

Embedded l lesson ideas and work sheets making lesson preparation quick and easy
Differentiated student task sheets   Uses ICT in a cross-curricular context, helping you
to meet OFSTED recommendations      Links to useful websites

Buy individually for £150.00 each plus vat or the set of five titles for
£600.00 plus vat. 446575     All complete with site licence.

Geography    Age 11-16   Rocks
CD-Rom with whole site licence £150.00 + vat    15972x

This CD-Rom combines specially selected clips from Channel 4’s most successful geography programmes with text, graphics, image galleries and glossaries for whole-class teaching, group work or individual study. The two lesson ideas featured are :
    • Limestone Landscape. The geomorphology of the Yorkshire Dales
    • Quarrying and the Environment: A case study from India

Features: 30–40 minutes of full-screen video clips. A gallery of 100 images, which can be copied and pasted into students’ presentations Animated graphics Wordbank – a glossary
of terms in the clips and the text

Embedded lesson ideas and work sheets are integrated making lesson preparation quick and easy.    Differentiated student task sheets Each topic is clearly defined with an explanation of the concepts involved.    A countrybank gives students printable data on the countries covered in the clips

Limestone landscape, quarrying and the environment, and the properties and uses of limestone and slate

Geography    Age 11-16   Tourism
CD-Rom with whole site licence £150.00 + vat    158738

The two lesson ideas featured
     • Working in Tourism: Costs and benefits On costs and benefits of tourism through
        a study of the jobs it creates
     • Impact of Tourism: A comparative study on the economic, social and cultural impact
        of tourism in Italy and Vietnam

Geography    Age 11-16     Rivers
CD-Rom with whole site licence £150.00 + vat    158703

The two lesson ideas featured on this CD-Rom are:
    • The Changing River: From source to sea
    • The Three Gorges Dam: A water management scheme in China

Geography    Age 11-16     Rivers
CD-Rom with whole site licence £150.00 + vat    158711

The two lesson ideas featured on this CD-Rom are:
    • Coastal Landforms: How waves shape the coast The physical geography of coasts
    • Coastal Management: Why Bournemouth and Bangladesh do it differently Comparing
       coastal management methods.

Geography    Age 11-16     Farming
CD-Rom with whole site licence £150.00 + vat    158746

The two lesson ideas featured :-
    • Factors Affecting Farming: China Comparing farming in two very different villages
    • Farm Diversification in India, Wales and the Philippines

Geography Age 11-16 DVD £55 + VAT 4434536

Education for Sustainable Development
Tremendous value - all 12 programmes on one DVD.

Using environmental case studies from around the world, chosen for their interest and relevance to students, these programmes offer information to young people on the major environmental challenges of the day, and their underlying economic and social causes, as well as advice on how they themselves can make a difference to the environment.

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Water Biodiversity Recycling Energy Food & Farming Cars Rich and Poor
Embedded Teacher's Guide 7 x 20 minute programmes, PLUS

Once Upon Planet
Spells out the scale of the challenges but also highlights the solutions being developed in the UK and elsewhere. Topics:-

Debt    Fair Trade    Staying Cool     What a Waste    Life on Earth
                          5 x 20 minute programmes

Geography    Age 11-16     Maps and Mapping
CD-Rom with whole site licence £120.00 + vat    1558-2

This CD-Rom provides the perfect starting point for learning about the world of maps, and how they reflect the landscape that they describe. It includes maps of three contrasting areas in the UK:
   * The upland rural terrain of the High Peak,
   * The urban and coastal landscape of Plymouth.
   * The mixed lowland of Telford.

Photographs and a 3D interactive mode enable students to deconstruct the maps to understand the geographical information that they provide.

Features:    Historical maps    OS maps     Land use maps    Change in urban and rural areas
Geological maps     Geographical decision making.    Contrasting maps of the same landscape can be viewed and compared, or overlaid   Compares maps of different periods to explore the geographical issues of development such as changing town size and road patterns Photographs of the landscape in association with specific locations on the map

Print-out maps and information for work away from the computer    Quiz section allows self-testing

History

History Age 11-16 CD-Roms £150 each + vat
With while school licence

Five separate titles.
158754 World War 1, Nazi Germany and Europe 1919-1939

Historical news footage shows how the First World War affected all of Europe’s people,
In the trenches, the battlefields and at home. Filmed news reports also show Hitler’s rise to power after 1919, his success in making Nazi Germany a military power, and the League of Nations’ failure to stop the rest of the world being drawn into another war.

Features 30–40 minutes of video clips. Explanatory text, maps, and a gallery of 100 images which can be copied and pasted into students’ work.

Printable biographies on the leaders and personalities * Each topic is clearly defined with an explanation of the concepts involved *   Website links  * Two downloadable lesson ideas per topic, complete with differentiated tasks for 11–13 year olds and 14–16 year olds * Homework ideas, including research activities *

The following titles follow the same format:

158762 World War 2   Includes Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, the Blitz, The Home Front

158770 The Cold War 1945-1969    Eastern Europe, Korea, Cuba, Berlin Wall

158789 USA 1919-1980 1920s/1930s, Roosevelt, Civil unrest, Black protest movement

158797 The Vietnam War

446591   Complete set of five titles £600 + VAT

History DVDs

443460 First World War   Age 11-16     DVD   £40 + VAT

443479 20th Century   Age 11-16     DVD   £75 + VAT

Examines the twentieth-century world through historical film footage, discovering the various personalities and events that shaped last century.

Heroes or Villains   Eight influential politicians of the twentieth century.
Chairman Mao * Ho Chi Minh * Martin Luther King * Fidel Castro * Yasser Arafat * Mikhail Gorbachev * Nelson Mandela * Mahatma Gandhi

Race in the 20th Century 1. Empire 2. Migration 3. Civil Rights
Women in the 20th Century 1. War 2. Family 3. Work

14 x 20 minute programmes

Mathematics

Mathematics:               Age 11-12

Maths Mansion - CD-ROMs
1 Basic calculations
2 Ratio, area and proportion    A brilliant booster for years 5 and 6

CD-ROMs    2 separate titles  £75.00 each + VAT (includes whiteboard licence)

Mathematics:

443 363 Maths 4 Real        Age 12-16     DVD £85.00 + vat
A set of 20 x 15 min. programmes on one DVD
Worksheets and notes available on line.    Excellent value at the price.

Maths 4 Real      CD-ROMs      £150 each + vat

CD-ROMS - Five separate titles. Now includes whole school network licence.
Includes 40 minutes of video clips, interactive activities and tests, teacher's note, exam clips and web links.

1.    448217     Calculations Percentage changes   Interest   Ratio & Proportion
2.   448225     Algebra: Functions & Graphs   Distance/time graphs Straight line graphs
       Rearranging formulae   Quadratic functions
3.    448233     Shape & Space Pythagoras   Tangent Rule Sine Rule   Enlargement
4.    448241     Measures Bearings Loci   Area of circles & shapes
5.    44825X     Data Questionnaires Scatter Graphs Cumulative Frequency   Probability

Modern Languages

Modern Languages          Age 9-12 CD-Roms

CD-ROMS - Three separate titles. Now includes whole school network licence.
443258    French   - Chez Mimi                 CD-Rom £100 + vat
445250 German - Hennings Haus        CD-Rom £100 + vat
445242    Spanish - La Tienda de Luis    CD-Rom £100 + vat

Modern Languages Age 9-12 DVDs £35 each + VAT

446737 French - Chez Mimi
446788 German - Hennings Haus
446699 Spanish - La Tienda de Luis

Modern Languages          Age 9-12    DVD £45 + VAT
44677x    We Are From. Children from twelve European countries introduce themselves,
take us to different regions in their country and talk about their interests.
12 x 15 minute programmes.

Modern Languages          Age 14-19    CD-Roms

Three separate titles. Now includes whole school network licence.
Interactive activities, transcripts, audio/text glossary , 20 page booklet

158010 French -   Extr@ Series 1     CD-Rom £150.00 + vat
158053 German - Extr@ Series 1     CD-Rom £150.00 + vat
158061   Spanish - Extr@ Series 1     CD-Rom £150.00 + vat

Extr@ Series 2 and Series 3 also available at same price

Modern Languages          Age 14-19    DVDs

443282   French -   Extr@ Series      DVD £65.00 + vat
443304 German - Extr@ Series     DVD £65.00 + vat
443390 Spanish - Extr@ Series      DVD £65.00 + vat

Modern Languages Age 14-19
Spanish Aventuras Vacas (5 x 20 mins.) & Campo y Ciudad (2 x 20 mins.)
443312 Two titles on one DVD £50.00 + vat

Religious Education Age 11-14

446400 Worlds of Faith CD-Rom £100.00 + vat In two sections. The first explores the six major religions. The second section examines each faith in greater detail examining moral and social issues.

Science

Science              Age 11-16     CD-Roms £150 each + VAT.
Complete set of ten £1200 + VAT.
This series combines selected video clips from C4's most successful science programmes with text, graphics, image galleries and glossaries for individual, group, or whole-class use. Printable lesson plans.   Student task sheets.

CD-ROMS - Ten separate titles. Now includes whole school network licence.

Introducing Science CD-ROMs
15869x Plants & Photosynthesis              446206    Materials -Earth's Resources
158665 Electricity & Magnetism               446214    Materials- Types of Reaction
158673 Electromagnetic Spectrum          446222    Human Body - Energy
158681   States of Matter                            446230    Human Body - In Control
158657 Forces & Motion                            446249    Waves and Radiation

Science  Bank            Age 14-16         One DVD £85.00 + VAT
443371 Chemistry, Physics and Biology

Raw materials   Electrochemistry Reactivity   Particles   Industrial Chemistry
Reactions and Energy Changes   Atomic Structure   Patterns of Behaviour

Waves Electromagnetic Spectrum   Electricity and Magnetism   Forces & Motion
Radioactivity   Circuits   Heat

Biological Reactions     Cells & Issues      Energy and Cycles in Nature
Food and Digestion      Body Parts

What excellent value at the price.      22 x 15 minute programmes.

Science             Age 14-16                       One DVD £33.00 + VAT
445366   Applied Science DVD

Incriminating evidence -    Science in action - supporting the police.
Roller coasters - The mechanical & psychological science.
Outbreak - Tracking and stopping viruses
Pushing the Limits - Physical effect of forces on submariners and pilots
That's My Baby - Fertility treatment     5 x 25 minutes programmes    445366