iBoard first caught my eye last year at the BETT exhibition. They produce an excellent bank of interactive resources for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 classes in several subjects, including literacy, numeracy and science.
Since then, iBoard has been purchased by the Times Educational Supplement (TES) and made available free of charge to all teachers, [...]
When I was a teenager one of the big quizzes on the television was something called Blockbusters. People of a certain generation still find the phrase “Can I have a P please Bob?” amusing
The basic concept is that two teams play against each other, trying to build a chain of colours across the [...]
Here is a collection of interactive SMART Board games for educators from PBS KIDS.
This is a collection of different Flash games to explore the curriculum from trusted programs such as Curious George, Super Why and Arthur. Although the site says it’s for Smartboards, it will work fine on any brand of Interactive Whiteboard.
The site offers [...]
I have written about this site in the past when it was XML Education. The site has a new look, and a new name. It’s now called Triptico and you can find it here: http://www.triptico.co.uk . The site is produced by two teachers over here in the UK, and the resources they have produced so [...]
02.27Wall of Words
A quick link to a fun activity for sentence construction and punctuation – The Wall of Words.
Pupils have to arrange the words into a sentence, and put the correct punctuation at the end. If they are right, builders add it to the wall, and they then get a new sentence.
It’s a nice, fun activity that [...]
02.27Primary Maths Games
Thanks to Jonathan Lurie on Twitter who sent me some links to a collection of primary maths games hosted by Oswego City School District in New York. These are fantastic to use on the IWB for lesson starters or plenaries. Go here and add it to your bookmark list now!
The games are in flash format [...]
02.25Make a Monster
Yesterday I decided to dust off my rudimentary Flash skills and have a go at making a new flash resource to use on an interactive whiteboard with younger pupils.
I wanted to make something that could be used to stimulate writing or discussion like the Superhero generator etc. So I had a go at a Make [...]
02.25Physics Games
I’m delivering an IWB in Science day in London tomorrow and I have been looking around for any new science websites that I might have missed. So I was really pleased to have stumbled upon Physics Games.net this morning.
Physics Games.net provides nearly 50 different flash-based games, all collected onto the one site. A few of [...]
01.15Jeopardy
A quick post about a free resource that will be of interest to anyone who likes to use quizzes as lesson starters or as a plenary.
Stu’s Double Jeopardy is a free piece of software that will run on any computer and can be used with any IWB or even just with a projector. It allows [...]
11.25TeacherLED resources
Thanks to Jim over at Teachers Love Smartboards for reminding me about the Teacher LED site.
If you haven’t seen it before, there are some great Flash resources on there. Mainly for Numeracy, but also a great little scrollable world map for geography.
There’s also a nice Flash version of the Blockbusters game show. Very nice, and [...]