SMART Board Lesson
March 23, 2007 by jzcolby
Did a lesson this week on the SMART Board that was lots of fun putting together and even more fun doing with the class. I downloaded all the college basketball team logos of the teams that made the Final Four tournament (both men’s and women’s teams). Renamed the images to contain the two-letter state code and imported them into the SMART Board Gallery. Put the United States map on the SMART Board and then the students took turns matching the college logs with the state and filling in the two letter codes on the state. Also set up a laptop for each team to go to to find a fact about the state while the next team was working on the map. We used Enchanted Learning for the facts. It was a fun lesson and I learned right along with the students. What is really nice is that next year, many of the logos will already be done.
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What are smart boards? One of our staff mentioned an electronic white board–same thing? Are they expensive to buy/maintain, and how do they enchance the everyday classroom? Just trying to expand my knowledge base here.
SMART Technologies makes the “SMART” Board but there are other electronic whiteboards out there; so, yes, they are the same thing. The SMART Board comes with software called “Notebook Software.” This software (reminds me of PowerPoint) allows you to create lessons on all areas of the curriculum and use it with the whiteboard. It includes thousands of templates — such as map of the world, US, graph paper, fraction symbols, on and on. I just did a lesson yesterday on fractions for Grade 3. It is wonderful. Kids love the interactive whiteboards. They are always very excited to participate in lessons using the SMART Board — very engaging.
If you go to my wiki site — http://juliazanglcolby.wikispaces.com — and click on SMARTBoards, you will find several resources where you can learn more about SMART Boards.
Hope this helps.