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Mystery at the Museum – Tigerlearn Originals – Kids

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Four curious children discover artefacts disappearing at the museum during a school trip. With determination and grit, the foursome race against time to discover the culprits and ensure the artefacts are returned, all the while hiding their actions from their parents and staring danger in the face. Will they be brave enough to face the challenge?

13 great ideas to make your classes more fun

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1. Set students a task which brings lots of skills together. With a big project, you can connect your subject to the students’ other subjects, their home lives and even their worlds. Look at this charity project for inspiration. 2. Run a forest school. Meet your learning objectives while also helping kids develop their team … Read more 13 great ideas to make your classes more fun

Forest school – building a shelter

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Our grade 6 social studies classes are based around the book ‘Story of the World’, which is a fantastic book which talks about the beginnings of human civilisation in story form, and also contains a whole host of activities to do with your students. We were reading about the nomads. In ELA (ESL), our main … Read more Forest school – building a shelter

PBL – Bringing charity into the ESL classroom

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The students in grade 5 were given a project – they had to give back. We spoke about problems around the world and what sort of things children could do to make the world a better place. They worked as a team (the whole class was just 4 kids, so it was easy to have … Read more PBL – Bringing charity into the ESL classroom

Edtech – Taking the Makey-makey into the classroom

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The Makey-makey is a wonderful little EdTech tool which I have barely scratched the surface on in terms of capability, but it has so much potential in the classroom. Essentially, the makey makey is a little circuit board that you can rig up to take the role of your keyboard by completing a circuit, so … Read more Edtech – Taking the Makey-makey into the classroom

Video list for the ESL pack

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Here’s a list of video links which work with the Tigerlearn ESL pack. It doesn’t cover all the topics within the pack, but it’ll get you started. Introductions Video 1.1 – Introductions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5qPS3balJg Countries and Nationalities Video 2.1 – Animaniacs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOFKmk7ytU Video 2.2 – Where are you from? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHbPDdGCFs Numbers Video 3.1 – Counting with … Read more Video list for the ESL pack

Discount code at the Tigerlearn store – get 15% off

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Now that teachers are starting to come back to school and prepare for the next academic year, it’s a good time to get a discount on teaching resources, so get 15% discount at the Tigerlearn store until September 9th by adding discount code BACKTOSCHOOL at checkout. The resources in the store have so far been … Read more Discount code at the Tigerlearn store – get 15% off