Teaching Tips

Overview

Each Planet Wobble CD-ROM has an 'About the Activities' section that explains how the on-screen materials work. These teaching ideas are additional ideas so you can extend the use of the materials and make them available to children of different abilities.

Printing

All Clicker pages and grids, including those in Planet Wobble, can be printed to any size. This means that they can be used away from the computer. Follow-up work can be carried out when a computer is not available or by children using pencil and paper as an alternative means of recording.

Print outs of the grids can also be used to create additional teaching materials.

Ideas are described in the relevant sections for each activity.

Editing

All the pages and grids can also be edited. This means that changes can be made within a class period. There is no risk of overwriting the materials in the ready-made grids, as the grids are protected and changes will not be saved.

In the Make a Book activity the grids are designed so that any changes you make will be saved.

“The range and quantity of computer activities enables all the children to benefit from working to their own potential and at their own level.” Jo Cummings, Technology Coordinator, Trial School