smartboard and interactive activities for elementary schools fall 2008 kathy beck
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SMARTBoardand Interactive Activities
For Elementary SchoolsFall 2008
Kathy Beck
Session Description
Enhancing your use of technology may be as simple as fully utilizing your SMARTBoard software. In this digital age – it is important to engage students. Interactive lessons achieve that goal. SMART offers many lessons that coordinate with your subject area. Many activities can be found online as well. I will share lessons and activities as well as links for more resources. Wonderful for whole class and also excellent for differentiation. Version 10
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Add a blank page Open
SavePaste
Undo Redo Delete
ShadeFull Screen
Show multiple pages Capture
Connect Document Camera Insert Table
Select Tool PenCreative Pen Eraser
Capture:
•Press capture button
•Pointer changes to cross hairs
•Press and drag the cross hairs on the screen to define the area you want to capture
•The image of this area appears on a new notebook page
•Options include:
•Area capture
•Window capture
•Freehand capture
LineShapes
Shape Recognition Magic Pen – Magnifier and Spotlight
Fill Font
Move toolbar to bottom
Writing to Text
Click on the arrow icon and click and drag across
the handwriting
Click on the down arrow in the top right corner and select recognize and choose the correct
text.
The handwriting is converted to text.
EraserCircle the area – tap the center – it erases it all.
Tables can have cell shade or table shade
Floating Toolbar
Can be moved to right or left and minimized.
Select
Pen
Highlighter
Eraser
Straight Line
Shape
Right Click
Keyboard
Notebook
Undo
Customize
SMART Ideas• Use engaging websites• Tools are great for enhancing the visual of any
activity• Concept Mapping• Maps• Virtual Field Trips• Tutorials• Manipulatives in math• Writing – editing, composing, brainstorming,
story starters• Great for use with existing software such as
Kidspiration, Inspiration,Timeliner or activities such as Jeopardy created in PowerPoint
• Labeling parts of an image or diagram• Recording data• Comparison• Timelines
Teacher Created Activities
• Start from Scratch
• Or start with a created activity and modify to suit your lesson
• Use tools and backgrounds to enhance
Question boxes – question on one side, click and it flips over to reveal the answer.
Page 2 of Teacher Created Activity
Use a pen to draw lines….
Or use a creative pen to draw lines….
Add Sounds to Text
Hear the Pig
Teacher Created Activity
Adding sounds to text and images
Drag money amounts to coin.
Locking Images
Coins are locked in place
Money amounts and words are not locked. Movement is allowed. Amounts and words can be dragged to the coin.
Drag words to match coin and money amounts.
Shade is used to hide areas of the SMARTBoard. Shade reveals coins and
money amounts.
Shade reveals only coins.
Shade reveals only words to read and review.
DiceWith Numbers, Letters and
Sounds
Spinner
Clocks
Page Sorter shows all pages open – can group pages
Gallery- Access to Gallery, Lessons and Essentials for Educators
Attachments – View of files you have attached
Fill and Page Recording options
Lesson Activity ToolkitThese have interactive and multimedia, images, notebook
files and pages and instructions
• Activities• Games• Graphics• Help• Pages• Tools
Lesson Activity Toolkit
• Balloon Pop
• Checker Tool
• Click and Reveal
• Variety of dice
• Information Button
• Question Flipper – with words, text and/or images
• Pull Tab• Question tool• Random Card, Letter, Number Text
Generator• Scrolling Text• Text Splitter• Vote Tool• Word Generator
Lesson Activity Toolkit
Enhanced Resources
There are also:
Navigation Buttons
Paper Backgrounds
Planning tools for teachers
Gallery
Here you will find many many ready made activities, lessons, multimedia to use for instruction. This is a fantastic resource available to all!!
Included are these areas of content
Gallery
Once you open a gallery item you can select autohide so that this section of the window is hidden and you have a wider window for your activity.
Gallery• Essentials for Educators
– Administration and Evaluation– Arts– English Language Arts– Geography– History– Mathematics– People and Culture– Science and Technology– Special Needs– Sports and Recreation
Gallery
• Gallery Sampler – Administration and Evaluation– Arts– English Language Arts– Geography – History– Mathematics– Science and Technology
• Lessons and Activities in All Subject Areas– Science
• Structure of a Leaf, Thermometer (Gallery Sampler, Science-Technology)
• Frog Guts (Essentials for Edu,Sci/Tech,Biology)
– Math (Essentials for Educators, Mathematics, Bucket and Spade – lost in the hut- shapes) – LA –Grammar Show Interactive (Essentials for Educators, ELA, Nursery
Rhymes,Grammar)
– Technology -Email Detectives (Essentials for Edu,Sci-Tech,Technoloty)
– Social Studies-I have a Dream (Essentials for Edu,History,North America,USA,Famous Americans)
• All Grade Levels
• Formats:– Interactive Movies – some with Quizzes– Sound Files– Templates– Images– Some activities link to pages and activities on the
WWW
Gallery
In Gallery•Essentials for Educators •Geography•Maps•North America•USA•USA-States
Geography
Click on pictures and backgrounds to get states and drag states –
They will snap to the correct spot.
Interactive Movies in the Gallery
Essentials for Educators – Physics – Gravity – Gravity and the Solar System
Some interactive movies have Tests and Reviews
Lessons From SMART-found on Web – Can Search for Activities by Curriculum Standards
and/or Grade levelOr go to Educator Resources>Lesson Activities>
View All for a search feature
http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/
• Language Arts– Alphabetical Flowers– Halloween Vocabulary
• Math– Halloween Math Fun– Slam Dunk Multiplication
• Science and Social Studies– What’s the Weather– Flower Power– Ben Franklin
• Technology– Primary Keyboarding
• Classroom Management– POD
Lessons Available on Internet•Language Arts
- Newspaper Writing from Primary Resources
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/powerpoints/newspapers_AMW.swf
•Math
Create a Graph http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx
Lessons Available on Internet
•Science- Self correcting - Interactive
Life Cycles http://www.topmarks.co.uk/r.aspx?sid=2099
Lessons Available on Internet
Many More Links
Can be found by going to the Iredell-Statesville Schools Webpage
Departments
Technology
Contact Information
Kathy Beck
SMARTBoard Presentation
Created by Kathy Beck, Instructional Technology Coordinator
Iredell-Statesville Schoolsfor Elementary Schools
October 2008