For the SMARTBoard:
Kaleidoscope Painter
Kids can get some practice manipulating the board. Geometric concepts correlate in 1st, 3rd, and 4th grades.
M1G1c. Create pictures and designs using shapes, including overlapping shapes.
M3G1. Students will further develop their understanding of geometric figures by
drawing them. They will also state and explain their properties.
a. Draw and classify previously learned fundamental geometric figures
M4G1. Students will define and identify the characteristics of geometric figures
through examination and construction.
Science NetLinks
This site has MANY interactive resources for Science. They are organized by K-2 and 3-5. Some of the coolest:
- Biodiversity: Life in the City
Students use the "virtual magnifying glass" to find hidden critters.
- Nowhere to Hide
An animated simulation based on a real situation involving moths and pollution in England. Students can control the amount of pollution. Be sure to click on "How to Play" and "Learn More."
S4L1. Students will describe the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem.
c. Predict how changes in the environment would affect a community (ecosystem) of organisms.
S4L2. Students will identify factors that affect the survival or extinction of organisms such as adaptation, variation of behaviors (hibernation), and external features (camouflage and protection).
Invention at Play
- Try the Cloud Dreamer generator. This would be a place to integrate science and language arts. Kids can create the cloud, watch it in the sky, and then write about it.
- Puzzle Blocks...very similar to Tangrams.
- Play TinkerBall to create hypothesis and test them.
- WordPlay is online collaboration for storymaking!
Students will use ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters. This is process standard #4 in each of the grade level standards. Teh elements of that standard become more detailed at each grade level.
Teacher Tools
A great bank of teacher resources! You can find quiz and flashcard generators, blank forms, and many other time savers. This is more of a management tool site than interactive whiteboard site.
Graphic Map Tool
Great visual for students to use to chart action in a story: could be arranged by chapter, by scene, by money spent, or they can create their own category. For students who have trouble understanding sequencing or who need some previewing or "frontloading" to maximize understanding, this could be used as a strategy to preview a story! There are also a lot of GREAT interactive resources at ReadWriteThink.
The National Archives is hosting a student
photography contest for fourth and fifth graders. "This Great
Nation Will Endure" is the theme of the contest, and it is sponsored in
conjunction with the presentation of "This Great Nation Will Endure:
Photographs of the Great Depression." The deadline is October 5th.
