FilmSchool Resources and Help Files

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New Challenge to be launched

The new FilmSchool Primary challenge, help and resources site will be launched soon. A curriculum based challenge suitable for P4-P7 that can be tackled in each school session. You can register now to be notified when the project goes live by sending an email to:

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filmschool @ digitallearningfoundation.org

FilmSchool2004 Archive

Information, winners, partners and more....

Free resource pack – secondary schools

In 2005, First Light Movies, the UK Film Council's filmmaking initiative for five to 18 year olds, delivered a project in 2005 called Big Screen Science, which used filmmaking to engage secondary school students in biomedical science issues.

Now there’s a free teaching resource pack to support the project which as well as the DVD of the six films made, includes key science, class activities and suggested discussion issues. To request a Big Screen Science pack, free of charge, please contact the First Light Movies office on 0121 753 4866 or via info@firstlightmovies.com ... or at www.firstlightmovies.com

Planet SciCast competition has launched!

If you’re feeling creative with your science then why not enter the Planet Scicast competition. Dig out your favourite experiment or demo, jazz it up, grab some willing volunteers and produce a film of 2 min 30 seconds (bet M.Night Shyamalan never had those constraints…). We can see it now. “Stranger than Friction” the heady tale of an immobile two pence piece and his arrogant detergent-clad brother… Is it us or has it suddenly got hot in here?

Anyway, send the finished product in and you never know, you might win a prestigious ‘Scicastie’ Award. Not to mention fame and glory. “I’d like to thank my apparatus – for always being there for me, snivel”

For more details visit www.planet-scicast.com