1. welcome  About me  Teaching english when I was a kid  Cone of learning  About smartkids

2. About me Mert Balin – mertbalin@gmail.com Born in Izmir – Turkey Lived in Istanbul – Turkey Have been working with kids for 16 years Started own business “smartkids” in 2003 Living in Northern part of Cyprus, and doing smartkids activities in schools

3. teaching english when I was a kid (8)

4. BBC Follow Me – from a video tape

5. Workbooks - Mr. and Mrs. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Smith go to the cinema. Where do Mr. and Mrs. Smith go to? Where do they go to? Fill in the blanks with correct words. They go to the _______________. cinema

6. What do Mr. and Mrs. Smith look like? What does Mrs. Smith look like? She is blonde She is tall She has short hair She has blue eyes Fill in the blanks with correct adjectives. Mr. and Mrs. Smith

7. She is __________ What does Mrs. Smith look like? Fill in the blanks with correct words. Beautiful, sexy, nice, good looking, gorgeous, tall and thin, sexy, beautiful, attractive.... Nice and long legs, tatoos, natural breasts, silicone lips, adopted kids, twins, golden globe award, handsome husband, long hair, big dreamy eyes, nice lips, fascinating body,... She has got __________ different Mr. and Mrs. Smith

8. Edgar Dale – cone of learning Edgar Dale (1900 – 1985) developed Cone of Learnig. Here's what he says: after two weeks, we remember only 10% of what we read but 90% of what we do

9. zone of pain :)

10. what is smartkids? Imagine Create Explore Share smartkids is a dynamic learning center providing activities in Lego, technology, electronics, robotics, science and digital multimedia. Combining art, technology and creative content, smartkids aims to provide meaningful learning experiences for children ages 3-14 yrs

11. How? Smartkids is composed of curious kids who transform their curiousity into a fun learning process. Smartkids provides the right spirit, materials and the environment. And learning is a natural outcome of the process.

12. creative explorers program  3-6 age group  1 hour program once a week  Each week different topic  Each session has 4 different parts, selected from computer game, video, lego play, science, art and drama

113. we had so much F U N !

117. Thank you... Special thanks to all teachers, who teach in an adventurous and fun way.

118. Thank you... This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission can not be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Project number 143337-LLP-1-2008-1-DE-KA2-KA2NW