SMARTBoard and 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

Shade Full Screen Show multiple pages Capture Connect Document Camera Insert Table Select Tool Pen Creative 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

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.

The handwriting is converted to text.

Eraser Circle 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.

Dice With 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 Toolkit These 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

There some new options: Page Groups Themes Senteo Software Question Sets Smart Document Camera Images Magic Pen Tool Table Integration Active Alignment Object Animation Page Recorder Shape Recognition Color and Gradient Fill Effects Print Capture Spell Check Locking Interactive White Board

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 - 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 level Or go to Educator Resources>Lesson Activities> View All for a search feature 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 ResourcesPrimary Resources

Math Create a Graph Lessons Available on Internet

Science- Self correcting - Interactive Life Cycles 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 Schools for Elementary Schools October 2008