SMARTBoardand Interactive Activities

For Elementary SchoolsFall 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

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Add a blank page Open

SavePaste

Undo Redo Delete

ShadeFull Screen

Show multiple pages Capture

Connect Document Camera Insert Table

Select Tool PenCreative 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

LineShapes

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.

EraserCircle 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.

DiceWith 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 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

• 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

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 -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

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 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.swf

•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

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 Schoolsfor Elementary Schools

October 2008