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This page is devoted to the growing collection of lesson plans that utilize Interactive Whiteboards as a technology resource.
Amphitheater SMART Board Teacher Rubric - Word Document -This provides a rubric for teachers to use to determine their proficiency level with using the SMART Board.
Amphitheater SMART Board Teacher Rubric - HTML Document -This provides a rubric for teachers to use to determine their proficiency level with using the SMART Board.
Amphitheater SMART Board Teacher Rubric - Excel Document -This provides a rubric for teachers to use to determine their proficiency level with using the SMART Board.
Random Student Program from Class -This is the link to the page where you can download the program to have the computer randomly select students with the click of a button.
Free Clip Art for SMART Board Lessons You Post on the Web -This provides links to free clip art images and those that can be used if you give credit. Be sure to follow copyright laws when posting SMART Board Lessons on the Internet.
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SmartBoard Lessons Podcast Collection -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. The hosts, Joan Badger and Ben Hazzard, have been recognized as Canadian & International Innovative Teachers by Microsoft, SMART Exemplary Educators, Peer Educators, Tradeshow Teachers, and Conference Presenters on the use of SMARTBoards in the classroom.
Intel Tools and Resources -Free tools and resources for educators support collaborative student-centered learning. Online thinking tools are active learning places where students engage in robust discussions, pursue investigations, analyze complex information, and solve problems. Resources for 21st century teaching help teachers play a critical role in facilitating learning activities and posing questions that take student thinking deeper.
Thinkfinity -Formally known as Marco Polo, this site provides various links to teacher resources, professional development opportunities, as well as links to major content partners such as Illuminations, and read-write-think.
Amphitheater Smart Board Collaborative -This site is for the use of the educators who are taking the week long SmartBoard professional development. We will post comments, share ideas with each other, and reflect on our learning over the week and into the school year.
Engaging Learners the SMARTboard Way -This site from Annette Lamb’s Eduscapes provides a huge resource of SmartBoard related ideas, links and activities. Appropriate for all grade levels K-12.
Center School District SmartBoard Templates -This site provides Smart Notebook files created by teachers in the Center School District. The site is organized into distinct levels that makes it easy to find activities to use with you classroom no matter what grade you teach!
SMART Board Gallery Collections -This site provides downloadable gallery images for the Smart Notebook. These sets were created by teachers in the Center School District.
SMART Board and AirLiner Activities -This website from the Wichita Public School District provides a great amount of lessons created by teachers in their district. The lessons are organized by content area, not by grade level.
Smart Education- Not related to official Smartboard site. If you are looking for support for e-learning and teaching you will find lots of free resources and useful links within the e-learning and teaching partnership website. Thousands of busy teachers, teaching assistants, tutors and students are currently benefiting from the content and support we provide. We will also bring you the latest news and information about how appropriate technologies are making a real difference to the lives of learners and teachers.
Lee's Summit R7 School District SmartBoard Site -A link to a large collection of SmartBoard resources, lessons, activities, and additional training materials.
Interactive Internet Resources -This site provides links to many interactive resources from around the web. The links are divided by content areas.
Interactivate -This site features interactive java based science and math activities. Links to lesson plans are available as well.
EdHeads -Edheads brings you high quality, free educational activities for your classroom. Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards. We partner with various school systems in the United States, which help us research, design and test our activities every step of the way! Activities range from a virtual hip replacement to working with simple machines.
Birmingham Whiteboard Resources -The BGfL has been developing a number of its resources and activities for use with whiteboards. Each of the links below contains a normal version of the activity together with a dedicated whiteboard version. The whiteboard version can be scaled to fit full-screen making it perfect for use in the classroom. Where appropriate, new resources will be developed to include a whiteboard version so please come back to this page from time to time to see the new additions. In addition to the BGfL resources we have also included loads of links to other web sites that also have dedicated whiteboard activities freely available.
Planet 10: An Interactive Model -Planet 10 is an interactive virtual model of our Solar System written in Shockwave by Wired Science for Science year. Explore the planets, comets and asteroids on an interactive virtual fly-through. Zoom in close on a particular planet or choose a different orbit view to see the whole system from afar. The data sheets let you discover more about some of the elements that make up our Solar System.
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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives -Virtual manipulatives related to the NCTM Data Analysis & Probability standard. Organized by grade level and types of graphs and charts are taught at each.
Interactive US states map game- In this game, students have to drag the name of the state to the correct state on the map. This is a timed game that starts as soon as you click the link!
A Math Dictionary for Kids -This site is an interactive math dictionary. Each entry has interactive pictures to help students understand the word or concept
Finding SMART Interactive Resources -This site lists a lot of links to interactive sites that may be usable with the SmartBoard. It is divided into content area groups.
Smartboard Literacy Activities -This site focuses on listing resources for elementary literacy. These activities are divided by grade level and all focus on reading and writing literacy.
Using Electronic Whiteboards in Your Classroom -This site provides ideas, lesson plans, and websites for using the SmartBoard in the classroom. This site is divided by content area.
Using the SMARTBoard to Support Math -The Kenton Country School District has provided a website with links to various Notebook activities that are correlated with the Kentucky standards. However, most of the activities can be used with our standards as well.
SMART Board Activities for the Hillside School- Broken down by content area, this site provides a massive amount of links to interactive websites that can be used with the SmartBoard.
Lessons from England-This webpage is a collection of activities designed for the SMARTboard and require the SMART software to use.
Ed Compass Lessons for Interactive Whiteboards- This site is a collection from the online community of Smartboard users called Ed Compass. These lessons utilize the notebook software and the SMART ideas software.
Smart and Getting Smarter- This site provides ideas to maximize SmartBoards as interactive hands-on, minds-on technology tools to support students as they demonstrate what they know in multiple ways. It provides an overiew and lesson activities and interactive sites in math, science, social studies, humanities, language arts and early learning.
AIM Your Projects with Flash- This site provides flash animitations for teaching concepts in math, science, social studies, health, physical education, music, and art.
Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom- This site provides white board tutorials, downloads and interactive activities. |
Amphitheater Teacher Created Lesson Plans |
This section of the site is dedicated to the lesson plans created by the Educational Technology participants.
Creating and Comparing Using the SmartBoard- In this lesson, the teacher will explain to the students that they will have an opportunity to complete a Venn Diagram comparing two animals on the Smart Board. The students will have the opportunity to use Smart Notebook to create a Venn diagram including 4-5 comparisons of each animal. The students will compose their comparisons on the Smart Board and then print a copy of their work. This lesson should be done after the teacher has taught animal groups (birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and arthropods) to the class and the class has begun the research process for writing the required Research Paper Project.
Pollination Ecology- How many people have given or received flowers as gifts? How many people realize that these pretty, sweet smelling gifts are bunches of reproductive organs? Humans often forget that the purpose of a flower is reproduction and that most flowers are not able to reproduce without assistance. This lesson is designed to have students explore the process of pollination and the strategies flowering plants use to get themselves pollinated. Students will use several Internet sites to learn about pollination. They will use a Smartboard to present what they learn to their classmates.
Pop Goes the Poem- Using picture books is one of the better avenues to have students practice identifying the six traits of writing. This lesson presents one author, one of the writing traits and poetry to help students revise their written work.
The Revolutionary War and the Idea of Bullying- Students will describe and identify the concept of bullying. They will then apply it to the British and American colonists during the Revolutionary War through an essay, an illustration and an oral presentation. This lesson plan, in part, has been designed for improving writing skills on a SMART Board, but could easily be adapted to a chalkboard.
Sequencing with a SmartBoard- In this lesson, students will be assembled into groups of three or four. Students will be responsible for reading a selected picture book, identifying six main ideas from the text, and mixing the main events into an unorganized list. Student groups will then record their unorganized lists into the SMARTBoard notebook software. Once all groups have entered their list, student groups will receive a different group’s book and their created list. Students will organize the new list of main events, and using the Smart Ideas Software or concept mapping software, create a concept map of the assigned story and events. |
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