Planning Science Lessons - Using the Tig Tag World website.

I really can't recommend this website highly enough - after using it last term, I'm now finding it invaluable for helping to teach science. Tig Tag World has background info for teachers, lesson plans, practical activities, quizzes, and more. It's a one-stop place that saves me researching anywhere else.

To give you an idea, the screenshots below show how I accessed what I needed for P6 this term.

We're covering one science outcome:

By observing or researching features of our solar system, I can use simple models to communicate my understanding of size, scale, time and relative motion within it.

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The website is arranged as a mindmap, firstly with the 3 main headings:

After clicking on Physical Processes, the map extends into these topics:

 ...which then refine further into these:

So, this is the Solar System page. From here I can show videos, photographs and quizzes to the class. By clicking the purple icons on the bottom right, I can access teachers materials.

This shows the teacher's materials:

And from here I got everything I needed to begin a forward plan, and there is plenty to extend the children's learning in whatever direction they wish to follow.

To access Tig Tag World, you'll need Glow log-in details. If you 'd like to look at the site but no longer have yours, I'm happy to share mine until we can get Glow passwords reset.

It might be worth pointing out here, that the next place I look for resources for the children to use in the ICT suite is the amazing topicbox.net - much more useful than Googling millions of websites to find something appropriate for research or games.