1. Using the Interactive Whiteboard to Teach Social Studies
Shelley Oakley
Curriculum Librarian
Jerry Falwell Library

2. Why use Interactive Board for teaching Social Studies
Social Studies lends itself to topics suitable for using interactive education
Reinforces social studies topics in a variety of formats – videos, games, hands-on learning

3. A Plan of Action
Look at your SOLs and think about what topics you want to reinforce several times
Think of at least 3 ways you can do this-
Handouts?
Group work?
Special projects?
Interactive learning?

4. What SOL topics work well with interactive learning?
True and False Facts
Maps and pictures
Topics that can be made into a game
Which can you think of?
Show TRM books and how later we will discuss these.

5. There is help!

6. There is help!

7. There is help! http://pbskids.org/whiteboard/

8. Creating Interactive lessons
SMARTBoard Gallery
Download videos and make time-lines
Create games that can be played while you are taking care of morning business such as lunch money, etc. OR while you are working in groups and cannot work with the entire class
Show TRM lessons and brainstorm about how to make these activities into an interactive whiteboard activity.

9. Creating Interactive lessons
Create lessons using the same game just change the topic:
Vortex game
Spinner game
Jeopardy
True and False lists
Time lines

10. Let’s Take a Look How can we change these to a Social Studies lesson?
Kid-Created Vortex Sort
Spanish Lesson
CVC Words