Crickweb

Here's a great site that all primary/elementary teachers who use interactive whiteboards should have bookmarked.

A former colleague of mine, Dan Bunker, has produced a fantastic library of Flash resources for many curriculum subjects plus some generic fun Flash games. There's over 160 resources on the site available to use.

There are also 16 Promethean flipchart files that ActivPrimary users can download and use on their whiteboard.

There are resources for Early Years classes as well as Key stages 1 and 2.

I thoroughly recommend the Crickweb site, there's certainly a lot of resources there and you should find plenty of things that you could use as lesson starters or as part of a plenary.

Magic Pen Game

No, not related to my earlier post about the Smart Magic Pen, but more related to my post about Phun the other week.

Thanks to Science Punk for linking to another fun little Real Physics application called Magic Pen.

Magic Pen is like Phun in that you use a crayon to draw objects that then behave on the screen as if they were real. Balls roll, oblongs topple down under gravity etc. This time, there's an actual objective. You need to get the little ball to the flag. You might need to just roll a ball into it to make it move, or you could build a more complex solution.

It's very neat, and would be great on an IWB as a lesson starter activity.

Play Magic Pen here: http://magic.pen.fizzlebot.com/