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The Teachers' Hub

Ways to use your SMARTBoard™ in your classroom Digital storytelling

• Brainstorm
• Take notes directly into PowerPoint presentations
• Reinforce skills by using on-line interactive web sites
• Create a project calendar
• Teach editing skills using editing marks
• Use highlighter tool to highlight nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.
• Use it with Kidspiration or Inspiration
• Teach students how to navigate the Internet
• Illustrate and write a book as a class. Use the record feature to narrate the text.
• Diagram activities
• Teach steps to a math problem.
• Have students share projects during Parent/Teacher/Student conferences
• Graphics and charts with ESL learners and special ed students.
• Teach vocabulary
• Electronic Word Wall
• End each day by having students write one thing that they learned
• Save lessons to present to students who were absent
• Create video files to teach a software application, a lesson, or as a review to be posted to the server or web. Example: How to create a graph in Excel or how to burn projects to CDs
• Use the built in maps to teach continents, oceans, countries, or states and capitals.
• Present presentations created by student or teacher
• Have students create e-folios including samples of their work and narration

Engaging Learners the SMARTboard Way:

Elementary

• Analog Clock (K-2)
• ArtsAlive Games
• Cloud Dreamer
• Dinosaur Scene
• My Pyramid
• Simple Machines
• Thumb Piano Tunes
• A Walk in the Woods

More

• Reading, Writing, Math, Social Studies and Science interactives
• Desktop Learning Spaces

Middle/Secondary

• Making Vaccines
• Measuring Cylinder
• Panda Habitat
• Habitat Adventure
• Walk in the Forest
• Rate Tornado Damage

Subject Areas

• General Resources
• Applied and Fine Arts
• Communication Arts
• Math
• Physical Education and Health
• Science
• Social Studies
• Flash Projects

Quia: Shared Online Activities

This site has shared activities that are arranged by categories or you can search by key words.

Engaging Learners the SMARTboard Way

Find interactive whiteboard activities, SMART Board classroom integration ideas, and workshops.

EduSim: 3D Virtual Environment for SmartBoard

This site provides a free, opensource, 3D, virtual world for the classroom interactive whiteboard. You can download ready-made lessons or create your own virtual environment. Click "download" from the top menu to get the program and click "watch video" to see how it is used in the classroom. NOTE: This site has a link to YouTube.

SMART: Educator Resources

There are interactive activities to use with the SMART Board under "Lesson activities". The activities are arranged by grade and subject.

SMART: Community Videos

Watch videos to see how the SMART Board is used as an interactive tool in a classroom.

ACCE: Interactive Whiteboard Resources

This page provides downloadable templates and activities by subject to use with the SMART Board.

Interactive Teaching Tools, Tests, Games, and Activities

This site compiles activities and teaching tools for interactive classrooms.

SMART Board and AirLiner Activities

This site has activities and templates specifically for SMART Board software.

Early ICT

This site has literacy and numeracy whiteboard activities for young students.

Topmarks Education

Scroll down to find interactive whiteboard resources for all grade levels and subjects. You can browse by category or key word search. NOTE: This site includes banner ads.

SMART Education

This site provides shared ideas and resources for e-Learning and teaching. The site requires free registration to download the resources for SMART Board. Click on the top menu to navigate the site.

Greenwich Grid for Learning

Click on a folder to find downloadable lessons for K-12.

SMART Board Templates

This site has SMART Board templates created by teachers.

Interactive Whiteboard Resources

This site provides free tools and resources created for teachers. Click on a top menu to access the resources. NOTE: This site has a link to a discussion forum.

Internet for Classrooms: SMART Board Resources

This site has SMART Board resources including training, interactive sites, lessons, and interactive videos. NOTE: This site includes ads.

SMART Board Lessons

This site provides downloadable SMART board lessons.

eThemes Resource: Math: Smart Board Activities

These sites have smart board activities for geometry, number and operation concepts, functions and algebra, fractions, and statistics. Explore the many different applets. Included is an eThemes Resource for Geometry for Junior and High School.

Cool Smart School Sites:

Sioux Falls

Lee's Summit School District

Center School District

Western Local School District

Houlton Elementary School