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SMARTBoard and Interactive Activities. For Elementary Schools Fall 2008 Kathy Beck. Session Description.
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SMARTBoardand Interactive Activities For Elementary Schools Fall 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
Previous Page Next Page Add a blank page Open Save Paste Undo Redo Delete
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 Shade Full Screen Show multiple pages Capture Connect Document Camera Insert Table Select Tool Pen Creative Pen Eraser
Line Shapes 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.
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.
Teacher Created Activity Adding sounds to text and images Hear the Pig Add Sounds to Text
Locking Images Drag money amounts to coin.
Coins are locked in place Money amounts and words are not locked. Movement is allowed. Amounts and words can be dragged to the coin.
Shade is used to hide areas of the SMARTBoard. Shade reveals coins and money amounts.
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
Lesson Activity Toolkit • Pull Tab • Question tool • Random Card, Letter, Number Text Generator • Scrolling Text • Text Splitter • Vote Tool • Word Generator
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
Gallery • 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
Geography • In Gallery • Essentials for Educators • Geography • Maps • North America • USA • USA-States
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
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.swfhttp://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/powerpoints/newspapers_AMW.swf
Lessons Available on Internet • 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
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 Schools for Elementary Schools October 2008