SMARTBoard Resources
One of the nice things about Valley Park School District are the abundance of instructional resources available to meet student needs. One of the tremendous tools for addressing visual, logical and kinesthetic intellingences are the projection devices and SMART Boards that are in nearly every classroom in the district. These interactive whiteboards (or airliners in primary) are great tools to activate participation from students, and not just passivity.
To increase resources for teachers, I plan to share some resources for your projector systems and interactive whiteboards that you can use to assist in greater integration of technology within the curriculum and instruction of your learning targets that address:
- Content Reinforcement
- Skill Supplement
- Context Development
I plan to share resources for all levels, and diversify subjects, regularly in these blog posts. But I will also house them all on a page (that I am still developing) that you can reference as well. I’ll get that out to everyone once it is of value. Also, attendees at the summer SMARTBoard and SMART Notebook trainings in June will learn about these resources and can compile and sort other resources to add to the list.
Here goes!
Eggtimer
Grade Level- Any
Subject- Any
There are times when a teacher needs to define a specific time allocation to certain tasks, and this website makes that time very visual with a countdown. I know when I taught, when I gave my students time guidelines it helped keep them on task, but when they digress it is usually due to them not realizing the time remaining to complete their task. This website makes that countdown very visual! (especially on a SMARTBoard)
Plant Science
Grade Level- Intermediate
Subject- Science
This webpage has a compilation of three plant science lessons and activities. The reason for including this in the list is the interactive activity in Activity 1. This is an interactive flash diagram of plant parts that would fit nicely on a projection device, whether you utilize their lesson templates or incorporate into your own instruction activity.
What’s the Difference
Grade Level- PK-Primary
Subject- Language, Science
This is an interactive site that deals with sorting and classification. There are a bank of items and two places to sort them based on characteristics of those items. Can be used in early science to illustrate classification and characteristics or in language as a discussion starter for reasoning and debate about why they fit into those categories).
The Raven- Edgar Allen Poe
Grade Level- HS
Subject_ Literature
This SMART Notebook file can be used during the teaching of the poem, The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe. As Trish Alexander indicated in her Teacher T.A.L.K. blog, April is Poetry month, and this is a classic poem to include in your studies. There are two reasons why this is included in this list. First, the person who created this SMART Notebookfile included many cool elements, so it is a good example of the many things your can do with this version. Second, I love Edgar Allen Poe, and especially The Raven! When in doubt on a slide, click the ? and it will describe what needs to be done on the page.
That’s it for now! I’ll have another batch soon. Feel free to share any that you have had success with and I’ll include in these posts!
Patrick
