Smartboards in the Classroom

Our friends at Teachers Love Smartboards have found a wonderful website that you absolutely MUST try. 

 

http://www.freezeray.com/index.html

 

To quote FreezerRay - "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."

 

 Be sure to look at the Physics section.  

 

Just wonderful!

 

 

 

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Technorati Tags: SmartBoard, Science, Science Lab Make-Over, Discovery Channel

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Ben Hazzard on Twitter and then Jim Hollis on Teachers Love SMART Boards brought the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society interactive website to us.  It's just fabulous.  Thank you both for finding it!

Come swim with the largest mammal on earth!

 

Thank you, Jim, for reminding me to cite my sources!  

Attachment(s): http://www.wdcs.co.uk/media/flash/whalebanner/content_pub_en.html

Our friends at the Whiteboard Blog have passed along an amazing Science resource on Evolution.  It traces the earth's development from the Big Bang through present day.  It's interactive and absolutely fascinating. 

  Technorati Tags: Science; Evolution

Attachment(s): http://www.johnkyrk.com/evolution.swf

 

Molecular Workbench offers interactive, visual simulations and activities that have been widely used in science teaching for students of all ages.  The database is designed to provide teachers and students with easy access to model-based activities. The activities are derived largely, but not entirely, from projects of the Concord Consortium sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The models are primarily of interactions of atoms and molecules, or rule-based genetics.

 

This website is discussed in Andrew Zucker's book "Transforming Schools through Technology".

Attachment(s): http://workbench.concord.org/

Here's a new interactive Science website for all you High School teachers.  Enjoy!
Attachment(s): http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htm

Help Detective LePlant and his partners unlock the mysteries of plant life.  Bring your students to this site and through a series of mysteries, stdents will improve their understanding of plant science and how foods grow.  This site includes a teacher's guide, lesson plans and group or individual activities.

Elementary Grades - Also in Spanish.
Attachment(s): http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/

Build your own DNA lessons using this site's Lesson Builder tool or download lessons related to the study of DNA.  Lessons include objectives, national education standards and student worksheets.

Secondary Grades



Attachment(s): http://www.dnai.org/