Interactive_Whiteboards

=** Interactive Whiteboards **=

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A. Smart Whiteboards

 * **Download Smart Notebook Software Here**
 * Also download the lesson activity toolkit
 * When installing please be sure to include the full gallery
 * If you already have the software installed on your computer and need to upgrade to the latest version you can click on HELP-CHECK FOR UPDATES to install the latest version

1.The complete online training courses can be found here.

 * [|Smart Interactive Boards]
 * I recommend the "Getting Started Course" for new Smartboard Users.
 * Smart Notebook
 * Smart Response

2. **3rd Party Training**

 * Teaching With Smartboards- Video Podcast Tutorials - []
 * Powerpoint Presentation for using Smartboards in Math - []
 * Lesson Activity Toolkit Training - >
 * 38 Interesting ways to use your interactive whiteboard.
 * Smartboard Podcasts - The purpose of this site is to accompany a free podcast that focuses on using SMART Boards in the classroom. Each episode will feature a lesson, a podcast, and user comments.

**C. Numonics Training**
This is a brand of interactive whiteboard that are available in our high school.

[|Numonics Intelliboard Web Training Course Schedule and Sign-up]. - Instructor Led - Requires internet connection and speaker phone. [|Numonics Intelliboard on Demand Web training]- Wath the videos on your own anytime. No telephone required.

II. Smartboard Themed Blogs
These are blogs written by smartboard users. They are updated frequently with new ideas and resources.


 * 1) [|Smartboards in the Classroom] - This is a blog from NYCENET. The primary focus is resources for smartboards in the classroom.
 * 2) [|Teachers love Smartboards] - This is a blog that is focussed on the use of smartboards as an instructional tool.
 * 3) Talking Smartboards and So Much More - @http://annemarie80.edublogs.org/
 * 4) The whiteboard blog - @http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/

A. Notebook Lessons

 * 1) The Smart Exchange - A social library of smart notebook lesson that are indexed by subject, grade and core curriculum content standards. All lesson can be previewed before downloaded. Once downloaded each lesson can be modified. Users can upload and share lesson that they make on this site. (http://exchange.smarttech.com)
 * 2) A collection of smartboard lessons and resources.
 * 3) A large collection of Smart Notebook Lesson Grouped by Grade levels - @http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/EDTECH/SB/templates.htm
 * 4) K-1 Smartboard Lessons and Templates - []
 * 5) ismartboards - A great collection of smartboard lessons, games and activities by grade level. @http://www.ismartboard.com/

**Math**

 * 1) **Harvey's Home page** - Full of Pre-Made Math Lessons for the Smartboard. - []


 * 1) **Smarboard Math Lessons[| - http://teach.fcps.net/trt27/math.htm]**


 * Science**
 * 1) [|Science Lesson] Plans. The six lesson packs cover the following topics:The Blast Furnace, Cell, Forces, Metals, Muscles and Joints, Reflection and Refraction.

B. Interactive Websites for All Subjects

 * 1) Interactive Resources by Grade level.
 * 2) [|A Collection of interactives and links to subject specific notebook lessons]
 * 3) [|Search the BBC for activities by subject]
 * 4) interactive Smartboard sites organized by grade and subject.
 * 5) Engaging learners the Smartboard Way
 * 6) Interactive Curriculum by grade level and subject area to find interactive websites to use with your students.

IV. Interactive Sites - Primary:
@http://www.learner.org/interactives - A great collection of K-12 Interactives organized by subject and grade level. [|Online K-8 Basic Skills Games] [|Elementary Interactive Sites] [|Schoolastic Interactives] [|Great Collection of K-3 Smartboard Sites] [|A collection of primary interactive sites] [] - Elementary Smartboard Lessons [] - Smartboard lessons from Schoolastic. [] - Resources from Smart by subject

**Art**

 * 1) MOMA - Take an interactive Tour of the Museum of Modern Art. []

**Health and Anatomy**

 * 1) The Human Heart - Put together pieces of the heart, Identify blood-flow pathway to make the heart pump correctly, diagnose patients, perform bypass surgery (virtually).

**Language Arts**

 * 1) Starters - []

**Math**
- Sort by grade. The manipulative cover all mathematics topics up to grade 8. There are games, background and tools.
 * Glencoe Virtual Manipulatives** - http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html

[|http://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/techno/games.htm#Matching%20Game%20Directions] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [|http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/] [|**http://www.gssd.ca/technology/mm/Kindergarten/Kmathk.html**]
 * Oswego** **Interactives**
 * Illuminations**
 * Everyday Math Manipulatives**
 * Magnetic Math**
 * Illustrated Math Lessons**
 * Addition and Subtraction**
 * Talking Calculator**
 * National Library of Virtual Manipulatives**
 * Building Smarter ways to use the SMART Board and Support Math Core Content K-8**
 * Inter****activate**
 * Kindergarten Math Interactives**

[] Lots of resources to download and try including:
 * The Standards Site: Interactive Teaching Resources** from UK
 * [|Area Grid Tool] (Shockwave)
 * [|Calculating Angles] (Shockwave)
 * [|Coordinates] (Shockwave)
 * [|Counting on a 100-bead String] (Shockwave)
 * [|Data Handling] (Shockwave)
 * [|Decimal Number Line] (Shockwave)
 * [|Difference] (Shockwave)
 * [|Division Grid] (Shockwave)
 * [|Fixing Points] (Shockwave)
 * [|Fractions] (Shockwave)
 * [|Grouping] (Shockwave)
 * [|Grid for rows and columns] (Shockwave)
 * [|Isometric Grid] (Shockwave)
 * [|Line Graph] (Shockwave)
 * [|Measuring Cylinder] (Shockwave)
 * [|Measuring Scale] (Shockwave)
 * [|Multiplication Facts] (Shockwave)
 * [|Multiplication Grid] (Shockwave)
 * [|Number Dial] (Shockwave)
 * [|Number Facts] (Shockwave)
 * [|Number Grid] (Shockwave)
 * [|Number Line] (Shockwave)
 * [|Number Spinner] (Shockwave)
 * [|Ordering Numbers] (Shockwave)
 * [|Place Value] (Shockwave)
 * [|Polygon] (Shockwave)
 * [|Ruler] (Shockwave)
 * [|Sort Shape by Color and Shape] (Shockwave)
 * [|Sort Shapes by Angles] (Shockwave)
 * [|Sort Triangles and other Shapes] (Shockwave)
 * [|Symmetry] (Shockwave)
 * [|Tell the Time] (Shockwave)
 * [|Thermometer] (Shockwave)
 * [|Twenty Cards] (Shockwave)

**Phonics**

 * [] - Early Phonics - Grades Pre-K to 2.**

**Time**
[|**http://www.time-for-time.com/**]
 * Time for Time**

[|**http://www.time-for-time.com/swf/myclox.swf**]
 * Interactive clock**

[|**http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BangOnTime/clockwordres.html**]
 * Time Test**

**Science**
**Become a Web Ranger** [] Biology site [|http://kvhs.nbed.nb.ca/gallant/biology/biology.html] Cells Alive [|http://www.cellsalive.com/] Body Systems [|http://www.sachem.edu/dept/sd/poster2006/bodaciousbiology2006.htm] Volcano [|http://www.channelone.com/news/2006/01/18/volcano/] Interactive Electron Microscope [|http://www.pfizerfunzone.com/funzone/discovery/microscope/index.html] Science Interactive [|http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm#Science] Sites based on subject and grade level mostly intended for smartboard: [|http://eduscapes.com/sessions/pilot/pilotinference.htm#3] Links to smartboard files arranged by grade and topic [|http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/SmartBoard/smartscience.htm] Generic SB Site [|http://eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/] Science Net Links [] Smarttech notebook lessons (Choose Grade and Subject) [|http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+activities/Correlated+Search+us.htm]

The Human Heart - Put together pieces of the heart, Identify blood-flow pathway to make the heart pump correctly, diagnose patients, perform bypass surgery (virtually).

**Earth Day Smartboard Lessons** > > > >
 * Grades K-2
 * Grades 3-5
 * Grades 6-8
 * Grades 9-12

[|Shape It Up] is one of many good educational games and activities on [|Kinetic City]. [|Shape It Up] is an activity that would be good for use in an elementary school Earth Science lesson. The activity presents students with "before" and "after" images of a piece of Earth. Students then have to select the force nature and the span of time it took to create the "after" picture. If students choose incorrectly, [|Shape It Up] will tell the student and they can choose again.

**Social Studies**

 * [|Visual Geography] is a wonderful site that some of the foreign language and social studies teachers are using to introduce students to the culture and people of various continents/countries. This site offers a wonderful visual impression of many places around the world. [|Visual Geography] also offers quizzes in 4 levels to test your knowledge of continents and countries. In a ddition, [|Visual Geography] also offers an option to listen to the language of the country.
 * **Bill of Rights Match Game** - []
 * **American Symbols Game** - []
 * **From the BBC** [] - //“It covers 6 primary history topics – Ancient Greeks, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Children in Victorian Britain and Children of WW2 – with a photo and video library and an interactive timeline, plus quizzes, activities and games.”//
 * **Online Geography Games** - A complete Listing --[]
 * **Branches of Government** - Interactive activity. - @http://www.texaslre.org/branches_game/branches_game.html

**Music**
**Arts Alive - Name the instrument, composer, etc.** [] **Thumb Piano Tunes** []

the story of the thousand and one Arabian Nights. || flute, sub contra bass recorder, dulcian, sackbutt and cornett. || Explore the captivating rhythms and instruments of Mariachi music from Mexico. || Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Clarinet Concerto, Variations ‘Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman’ and Symphony 40 || Can be played with qwerty keys or mouse. || harmonies, riffs and rhythms: ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy!’ and ‘Just Enough’. ||
 * [|Mood] || Activities to show how music can affect/set mood – Primary Level ||
 * [|Reindeer Orchestra] || Touch the reindeer noses to play Christmas Carols ||
 * [|Virtual Keyboard] || Play a virtual keyboard - Primary/Intermediate Level ||
 * [|Electronic Drum Set] || Play a solo or accompany a CD ||
 * [|Early Bird Singers] || Click on the birds to make your own tune ||
 * [|Compose Music] || Try your composing skills on the interactive musical staff ||
 * [|Name the Composer] || Can you guess the composer from the given clues? ||
 * [|Name the Instrument] || Listen to the music and guess the mystery instrument ||
 * [|San Francisco Symphony for Kids] || Learn all about an orchestra, the music and instruments ||
 * [|Look, Listen and Learn] || The Arts presented by The Kennedy Center ||
 * [|ChoralNet] || Many podcasts, audio files and video files related to music and music performances ||
 * [|Musical Instruments] || Learn about the different families and types of instruments ||
 * [|Continental Harmony Web] || From PBS – Includes multimedia lessons including mood & music, world beat, elements of music, music imagery and more (grades 3-8) ||
 * [|Great Performances] || Multimedia archives ||
 * [|Music Theory] || Fantastic site that teaches and quizzes music theory from the basics on up! ||
 * [|Play Music] || interactive webpages where you can click on a musical instrument and here the sounds it makes. Excellent! ||
 * [|Fun With Music] || Great site by San Francisco Symphony – music education for kids ||
 * [|Boston Symphony Orchestra Kids] || Site presents interactive games, an introduction to instruments, and kids can meet the musicians. ||
 * [|Dallas Symphony for Kids] || The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magical doorway to a world of musical fun and learning for students, parents and teachers! ||
 * [|From the Top] || A radio show that features outstanding young classical musicians ages five to nineteen. ||
 * [|Memphis Symphony Orchestra] || Site from the Memphis Symphony introduces kids to instruments, composers, and musicians. ||
 * [|Music Notes] || A fun, educational guide for children to music theory, history, instruments, and composers. Features quizs, forums, and sounds. ||
 * [|The Music Room] || Introduces children to music theory and history in a fun, entertaining way. ||
 * [|Guess the Instrument] || Listen and click on the instrument you hear ||
 * __[|SCHEHERAZADE]__ || An introduction to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade,
 * [|Peer Gynt] || BBC fun guide to ‘Hall of the Mountain King’ by Edvard Greig. ‘Peer Gynt’ the hero needs your help to knock out the trolls and recognize some of the instruments. ||
 * [|Musical Mysteries] || Kids site all about music including activities on sound, rhythm, mood, orchestra, quizzes, etc. ||
 * [|Early Musical Instruments] || Video resource featuring lute and archlute, treble tenor and bass viols,
 * [|Exploratorium] || These exhibits will let you mess around with music in ways you probably haven’t before. ||
 * [|Bagpipes: First Get a Goat] || Examples of some weird and exotic world music instruments. ||
 * [|Meet the Mariachi] || Music, video, instruments and quiz.
 * [|Traditional Japanese Musical Instruments] || Shakuhachi, shamisen, taiko, koto - traditional Japanese musical instruments. ||
 * [|Kid’s Mozart] || Kids Mozart player that includes extracts from
 * [|Virtual Keyboard] || Online keyboard instrument with sounds, drum rhythms and chords.
 * [|Gourd Tree] || Use your qwerty keyboard or mouse to play this invention by Harry Partch. ||
 * [|Sheep Beats] || play with rhythm ||
 * [|The Blues Man] || Click on the buttons and radio to hear the blues man sing and play. ||
 * [|Sing and Play] || Experiment with songs featuring mouth percussion,

V. Middle School Resources:
[] - A collection of smarboard lessons created for Middle School. [] - Grade 5 and 6 @http://www.learner.org/interactives - A great collection of K-12 Interactives organized by subject and grade level.

Mathematics
- Sort by grade. The manipulative cover all mathematics topics up to grade 8. There are games, background and tools.
 * Glencoe Virtual Manipulatives** - []

**MS Science:**

 * 1) Anatomy and Physiology - []

 Freeze Ray -  This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in 11-18 Schools.The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity. The appropriate Key Stage is indicated for each resource. It is hoped that the resources will help students to make sense of some of the more challenging concepts they encounter. Many of the resources can be used to support starter or plenary activities.

General Interactives
-Learner.org host a number of content area interactives with strategies, content and activities. []

__Math__
[|High School Math Interactives] [] - High School Smartboard Lessons. Interactive sites for secondary schools seach by subject. - []=

HS Science

 * Interactive Physics - Design a roller coaster. []


 * [|Coaster Creator] is an interactive lesson about potential and kinetic energy. [|Coaster Creator] provides a audio/ visual tutorial in which students learn about the physics behind roller coasters. After completing the tutorial, students can design and test their own roller coasters. If the roller coaster is designed improperly it will either crash or stall out.
 * Anatomy and Physiology - []


 * Freeze Ray -  **This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in 11-18 Schools.The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity. The appropriate Key Stage is indicated for each resource. It is hoped that the resources will help students to make sense of some of the more challenging concepts they encounter. Many of the resources can be used to support starter or plenary activities. **
 * The Human Heart - Put together pieces of the heart, Identify blood-flow pathway to make the heart pump correctly, diagnose patients, perform bypass surgery (virtually).

**__HS Language Arts__**

 * **[|Quia Language Arts Activities]**
 * ** [|Quia English Activities] **
 * ** [|Preposition Practice] **
 * ** [|Complex Sentence Structure] **
 * ** [|Two Word Verbs] **
 * ** [|Verb forms 2] **
 * **__ Advanced grammar: __ [|Cloze test] **
 * ** [|American Literature Trivia] **
 * __**Intermediate reading:**__ ** [|Reading test] **
 * __ **Upper-intermediate reading:** __** [|Reading test] **
 * ** [|Correct or incorrect?] **
 * ** [|Thesaurus - Visual, online] **
 * **[|Race to the Ramses]** (prefixes)
 * ** [|Escape from Planet Zug] (reading comp) **
 * ** [|Word Game of the Day] **
 * ** [|Rooting Out Words] **
 * ** [|Middle School Vocab Games] **
 * ** [|Conjunctions 1] **
 * ** [|Conjunctions 2] **
 * ** [|Conjunctions 3] **
 * ** [|Grammar Quizzes] **
 * ** [|Home for Abused Apostrophes] **
 * ** [|Grammar Bytes] **
 * ** [|Rats!] ** ** [|Parts of Speech] **
 * ** [|Irregular Past Verbs 1] **
 * ** [|Irregular Past Verbs 2] **
 * ** [|Irregular Past Verbs 3] **
 * ** [|Adjective Clauses] **
 * ** [|Adjective + Infinitive] **
 * ** [|Using Nouns as Adjectives] **
 * ** [|Participial Adjectives] **
 * ** [|Spelling - 50 Comparatives] **
 * ** [|Reading Comprehension] [|Nasreddin and the Pot] **
 * ** [|Reading Comprehension] [|Nasreddin Goes Shopping] **
 * ** [|Reading Comprehension Nasreddin and the Beggar] **
 * ** [|Reading Comprehension Nasreddin and the Smell of Soup] **
 * ** [|Reading Comprehension] [|Nasreddin the Ferry Man] **
 * ** [|Reading Comprehension] [|Nasreddin's Visitors] **
 * ** [|Reading Comprehension] [|A special Christmas Present] **
 * ** [|Reading Comprehension] [|The American Pepper] **
 * ** [|Reading Comprehension] [|The Hitchhiker] **
 * ** [|Reading Comprehension] [|The Carpet Fitter] **
 * ** [|Reading Comprehension] [|The Choking Dog] **
 * ** [|Passive Voice] **
 * **[|Shakespeare quiz]**
 * **[|Online lessons]**

Social Studies - High School

 * Bill of Rights Match Game - []

World Language

 * Smart Notebook Lessons(1)**
 * **High School** ||
 * [|Adjectives] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || Spanish ||
 * [|Clothing in German] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || German ||
 * [|¿Cuándo es?][| (What time is it?)] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || Spanish ||
 * [|En El Restaurante (In the Restaurant)] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || Spanish ||
 * [|French Travel Vocabulary] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || French ||
 * [|In_der_Schule] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || German ||
 * [|Hablando del Pasando (Preterite and Imperfect Verbs)] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || Spanish ||
 * [|Juedo de Fluidez (Fluidity Game)] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || Spanish ||
 * [|Los Tres Cerditos (The Three Little Pigs)] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || Spanish ||
 * [|Notre Monde (Our World)] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || French I ||
 * [|Present Tense Verbs in Spanish] || [[image:http://technology.usd259.org/images/smartresponsesmall_002.jpg width="15" height="16" align="center" caption="SMART Resopnse Logo"]] || 9th - 12th Grade || Spanish ||
 * [[image:http://technology.usd259.org/images/new-sm.gif width="20" height="17" caption="New"]] [|Realidades 1a-3b] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || Spanish I ||
 * [|Revision Del Alimento (Food Review)] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || Spanish ||
 * [|Ser o Estar (Forms of "be")] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || Spanish ||
 * [|The -er Group: Regular Tense Verbs] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || French ||
 * [|Verbs in the Preterite Tense - Spanish] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || Spanish ||
 * [|Verb Forms in German] ||  || 9th - 12th Grade || German ||

Works Cited:

1. World Language Smart Notebook Lessons from @http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smart-lessons/foreign_language_lessons.html