Smartboard in the Classroom SMART Technologies An online community for educators using SMART products. SMART Technologies Website (Download Notebook Example) (Download Notebook Example) Download Examples SMART Learning Activities Best sources to download Notebooks and lessons Also, check the International lesson activities. The following websites contain lots of examples of Notebooks to use with your SMART board. ACCE Interactive Whiteboard Resources Download Whiteboard Notebooks in many subject areas. National Whiteboard Network from the UK Interactive Whiteboards from Kent Includes case studies using Smartboard, Whiteboard resources, and others. Interactive Resources For evaluation only (Evaluation watermark) Learning Grids For purchase only Royal Kingston SMART Notebook Templates from UK
KS2 Numeracy We have split the resources in to 7 groups as the page was very long and slow to load.Use the sub menu above to navigate within the KS2 Numeracy resources. Here are a few of the latest Key Stage 2 Maths resources. © v2vtraining.co.uk A versatile 12x12 square with three highlight colours, hide or reveal, variable start number and a variable step feature. Can you work out what the machine is doing to each number you put in? Read Sam's note and buy exactly what she asks for. Click on each child to find out their favourite hobby. Pass your driving test! Make a number between 425 and 450 by dragging the digits into the right places in the number machine. © 3913.co.uk Can you meet the 8 division challenge? Can you solve the problems using your division skills? Select two of the number tiles so that when they are multiplied together they equal the target value shown under the word "Number".
Free Technology for Teachers Interactive Math Sites for the SmartBoard Interactive Math Websites, Math Websites for Interactive Whiteboards Interactive Math Websites for Interactive Whiteboards Manipulatives National Library of Virtual Manipulatives Virtual manipulatives related to the NCTM standards. Big Online Calculator Use to teach students how to use a calculator. eManipulatives Base ten blocks, counters, number lines, etc... Interactivate Lots of resources for math lessons. Numbers Wash Line Put numbers in the correct order. Number Recognition Launch the Spaceship Students must click on the correct number to launch a spaceship/ Number Sequence Students pick the correct number to complete a sequence. Two Digit Numbers Students match names of two digit numbers. Numberlines Students guess patterns on the numberline. Odd or Even Students sort numbers as odd or even. Number Track Place numbers in correct order. Caterpillar Ordering and Sequencing Students put number in the correct order to put a caterpillar back together. Spooky Sequences Count by 2, 5, 10 Addition
Thank you once again PLN! Posted by admin | Posted in Blogs | Posted on 07-06-2010 I have to thank my wonderful PLN who once again cheers me on and keeps me going when my life feels like the chaos will never end! Those of you who have signed up for the Educators Blogging Alliance, not to worry I still have the list and hope to get it all set up and sorted out this week. My original date for the launching of the second Blogging Alliance came and went. All I can say is that my plans for the end of the school year were much more ambitious than was actually feasible to accomplish. A number of changes is occurring in my life and several of you have asked me what is going on. My passion is teaching, learning, technology, and education. It is hard to leave a job you love, it is hard to leave a steady income when the economy is iffy and teachers are having a hard time staying employed, it is hard to leave students who’s lives you have invested in.
Jim Reed's Home Page Web Resources Design: The high school mathematics resources created over the last two years have a different design. The dynamic interactive activities typically have a visual and symbolic output with a means to change length/parameters. For the units completed, I have tried to develop a comprehensive, concise set of math notes with applets that the reader to understand/remember the concepts and enhance their math intuition for real life applications. For most of these resources I want the user to start exploring the applet to discover as much of the pattern themselves, then use the notes on the left to fill in the rest of the pattern. I am using my own invention, CET (Closed Eyes Test) to check the effectiveness of the resources. Transformations Logarithms Conics Trigonometry Circles Quadratics Relations Philosophy: I believe families have the right to educate their children at home and school boards have a duty to support this decision. Award: The Teacher List: Top Ten Awards!
TeachPaperless I Love That Teaching Idea! The Power of Literature Circles in the Classroom My six-year-old son has finally, really started reading. It's thrilling to watch him grab book after book off his overflowing shelves and read stories he's been hearing for years. Now he wants to take books to school so that during recess, he can entice his friends to sit together and read. "I was in a book club once," I said, explaining how a group of friends read the same novel and then discussed it over dinner. But the rabbit hole of nostalgia that I tumbled into was of my experience as a teacher facilitating literature circles. Why Literature Circles? I promise to provide practical resources on the how, when, where, what of lit circles, but let me first make a case for why every K-12 classroom should institute some version of literature circles. Reason #1: Literature circles can be a place for cooperative learning. Reason #2: Literature circles allow students to make choices about their learning. Reason #3: Literature circles are fun, in part because they are social experiences.
Writing Workshop We call our writing workshop time 'Writers at Work'! It is a combination of approaches (between Kid Writing by Feldgus and Cardonick and the journal writing in The Teacher's Guide to Building Blocks by Hall and Williams). Procedures 1) Model for students The teacher: thinks aloud about possible ideas, draws a picture and orally discusses why certain elements are in the drawing (prewriting) decides what to write that corresponds to the picture does adult/book writing (with student assistance) 2) Student Writing Students: get their writing notebooks date their next clean pagethink about what they want to drawdraw their picturekid write (with and with out assistance) (Click here for a more detailed description.)Our Writing Notebook Paper (a printable in PDF Format) 3) Once finished, students look at books in the book basket at their table, reread their previous entries, or share their writing with an adult or other child at their table. 4) Clean up You sing it like a rap. 5) Pair Share
Letting Twitter change the way we teach | Education IT | ZDNet.com I read a great article last week titled "How to Present While People are Twittering". I was reminded of it today during an email conversation with ZDNet's resident social media guru, Jennifer Leggio. We were joking about Twitter and she said, Chris, you're becoming more obsessed with Twitter than I am. I'll admit that Twitter has certainly caught my fancy and I continue to mull over ways to integrate it into classroom settings and make it both educationally appropriate and useful. Regardless of my Twitter inferiority, if we look at the tool itself, as I've noted before, it could be a viable (and even superior) tool versus interactive response systems. As the author points out (I've cut out a bit here and taken liberties with bullets, but the text and ideas are all there), ...presenting with the back-channel is challenging. The article concludes by asking an important question:
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