You may have noticed a small football tournament started today. To celebrate, Smart have made available a World Cup resource from Skoool, which you can download and add to your Smart Gallery. Skoool football has been developed to engage students in a range of activities that will improve their understanding of maths and science. All [...]
05.24Maths Manipulatives
Here’s an excellent resource for primary/elementary Maths from Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. It’s a flash-based set of interactive tools for reception up to year 8. It includes standard maths items, as well as graph paper and other backgrounds. It’s free, and well worth a look. The tools also include basic IWB tools such as text, pen, a ruler/protractor [...]
A quick plug for the Wichita Instructional Technology department who have put together an awesome collection of Smart Notebook files. According to one twitterer (Kelly Reseigh) This site has been dubbed the “Smartboard Motherlode” by some schools.. and it’s hard to argue with that description. The site contains loads of Elementary / Primary (K-6) Smartbotebook [...]
04.26E-Learning for Kids
E-Learning for Kids is a “global, nonprofit foundation dedicated to fun and free learning on the Internet for children ages 5 – 12.” They offer free online courseware in maths, science, PSHE (Life Skills), literacy and computing skills. There are plenty of online Flash-based resources here. Some would work well on an IWB (a full-screen [...]
03.22Red Fish!
My first blog post here – thank you to Danny for inviting me. I like to see children using Interactive Whiteboards (IWB). Not just coming up to the front to point at something or move it, I mean really ‘using’ them. Some of the best use of IWBs I have seen by children has been [...]
Sumdog is a fun website for numeracy from the people behind Crocodile Clips and Yenka / Absorb Science. Sumdog’s free maths games are designed to improve numeracy in upper primary and lower secondary (students aged 9 to 13). Covering 100 fine grained numeracy topics, ranging from simple addition to square roots, Sumdog adapts to the [...]
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 [...]
12.23Smart Measurement
Jim Dornberg (@jdornberg) has put together a wiki of links to useful interactive resources for the teaching of measurement. There are some very cool links which would be useful for supporting primary school maths sessions. The links are mainly flash-based, so are not restricted to just Smartboards – you could use these on any brand [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a new site that you might be interested in if you are looking for games to play on your interactive whiteboard: Primary Games Arena While I’m a little uncomfortable about a site repacking other people’s material on their own site, you can’t doubt there’s a tonne of useful games to be found here. Personally [...]