Twig Secondary is tailor-made for teachers

The Twig Secondary website provides school-wide access to thousands of three-minute videos for Science and Math, as well as worksheets, lesson plans, quizzes, and diagrams.

Twig Secondary resources are easy to use. You slot them into your existing lesson plans or use them as inspiration for future lessons.

With Twig Secondary, there’s no need to search the Internet for safe, age-appropriate content that is going to engage your students—it’s all been done for you.

Twig Secondary is matched to your standards

Twig Secondary videos are created specifically for use in schools and are matched to a number of standards—including full alignment at middle and high school levels to CA Next Generation Science Standards Frameworks.

Use the CA NGSS Framework PDFs to find the right videos and learning materials for your lessons.

Twig Secondary lets your students explore the world

Twig’s award-winning resources use world-class film footage to engage and inspire learners.

Whether tracking tarantulas in the rainforest or chasing storms in Tornado Alley, Twig videos are guaranteed to captivate your class and show them how the topics they’re learning relate to the real world.

Learn how we make our films

Twig Secondary offers you flexibility and variety

Twig Secondary videos can be used in a variety of different ways—as an introduction to a new topic, to illustrate the topic as you teach it, as reinforcement, or for revision. You can ask students to log in to the Twig website at home and watch a video in advance of a class so that they arrive for a lesson ready to talk about what they have learned.

Twig supports differentiated learning

Twig allows students to learn at their own pace. You can ask different pupils to notice different aspects of a video. Those who have found a topic hard can watch the video again (and always love doing so) while others can use Twig’s unique Mindmap and the topic extension questions to explore further and extend their knowledge.

The onscreen key words, closed captions and downloadable transcripts make Twig videos accessible to students with additional support needs or those whose second language is English.

Twig encourages cross-curricular learning

Exploring the Twig Mindmap allows students to see how different topics relate to one another. The videos use examples from real life to demonstrate how different topics, and even subjects, connect outside the classroom. These cross-curricular links can take students on a journey of discovery and fire them with curiosity to find out more.

Explore the Twig Mindmap