Crick Software blog
At the start of a new year, many of us look for ways to lead healthier lives and we often encourage children to do the same. There are a variety of resources on LearningGrids to encourage children to talk, read, and write about the importance of making healthy choices.
Recently a teacher contacted us asking if we had any suggestions for supporting children working on a project on space. I thought this was a really great activity and I enjoyed putting together resources on the topic. Here are some ideas that might be helpful for others.
Flipped learning has seen a revival recently with the closure of many schools due to the Coronavirus pandemic and an increase in remote learning. Clicker is a fantastic platform for delivering accessible and engaging content to acquire initial knowledge outside of the classroom in this flipped learning approach.
We've teamed up with Childnet to put together some resources to help children learn about staying safe online.
We’re very excited by the latest update to SymbolStix which brings with it a larger variety of skin tones for every symbol that includes a person.
I just had to let you know about a great activity that a parent shared with me recently. Whilst doing some home learning with her 5-year-old daughter, she decided to create a simple Connect Set in Clicker to support her daughter’s writing – with fantastic results!
On January 20th Kamala Harris was sworn-in as vice president of the United States alongside President Joe Biden. We have recently published resources on LearningGrids to help your students write and talk about this important event in U.S. history.
Recently we were asked about using Clicker alongside Talk for Writing in our Clicker Community Facebook group. I answered with some suggestions, but I felt it was such a good topic it would be beneficial to write up some ideas in more detail for each stage of the Talk for Writing approach.
We have some great resources on LearningGrids to help children to understand and write about the causes and consequences of various natural disasters.
Our team have been working really hard on a new feature in response to customer feedback: a quick and easy way to see the new resources that have been published each month.
We spoke with Emma Gorton about how Clicker is helping the children at Micklehurst Primary School to become more successful writers.
If you’re looking to support your students in extending and improving their writing, here are a few ways that you can use Word Banks in Clicker and Wordbars in DocsPlus to help.
Our new DocsPlus Universal licensing system makes it easier than ever for you to provide your students with the reading and writing support they need.
We have some fantastic festive-themed resources for your younger learners in the Christmas section on LearningGrids.
We have recently published a series of Clicker resources focused on Greek myths.