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!

 

 

 

Here's a great resource for physics:

 

http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash

 

Technorati Tags: physics

Today, CNN has an exceptional slideshow of images taken by the Hubble telescope.  These are stunningly beautiful.  Do check them out.

 

See link attached. 

Attachment(s): http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/15/slideshow.hubble.galaxies/index.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/