Mr B's List of SMART Board Sites - List of SMART Board sites, lesson resources and other educational resources online

Cool one. Create, collaborate and publish interactive timelines. VERY COOL! Some features are pay, but the starting point is free.

click here: www.TimeGlider.com

These are some fun multiplication fact games to play on SMART board. creative stuff! Obviously.. all about multiplication haha. *I recommending clicking on “games” in top left corner* although there are plenty of useful resources on this site. LOTS OF FREE STUFF HERE!

click here: www.multiplication.com

here’s a fun new science site for elementary kiddos. Fun stuff!

click here: www.sciencewithme.com

from their website:

Science With Me! is a free educational science website for elementary age children. Our website offers science movies and songs, free science coloring sheets, free science worksheets, fun science projects for kids and stories to help young children learn scientific principles and science the fun way.

Feel free to explore our creative web site and if you like what you see, then please sign up to become a member – it’s free to join and all we need is a username and your email address!

Whether you are a teacher looking for elementary science projects or you homeschool and you need science ideas, it’s free for everyone to use and enjoy!

Here’s a new fun reading site for the little kiddos. Animated read-aloud story books and songs!! its a subscription based site, but I believe it is free

click here: www.mightybook.com

from their site:

MightyBook is an online publisher that specializes in children’s illustrated, animated read-aloud eBooks and Story Songs for ages 2 to 10, plus children’s sing-along songs. All eBooks have an original sound track, many with music and sound effects, and are created in Macromedia Flash animation. Words in the stories highlight as they are spoken by the story teller. It is truly entertainment that helps kids read.

Cool fun new site for the little kiddos, and English language learners. FUN, check it out!

click here: www.kindersite.org

Their mission as specified on their website:

To build a resource that can be used by teachers and adults for enhancing and motivating young children, from the age of 2 years, to:

1. Build their first technology skillset, by finding and using appropriate content on the Internet, in the form of games, stories and songs, within a safe and engaging environment.

2. To enhance the learning of English, as a first or second language, with a huge range of motivational games and tools. The content will be appropriate for young to older learners.

3. To offer academic educational researchers a tool that can measure and correlate data on children’s use of content on the site, according to their research criteria. The project will incorporate a mechanism whereby the research can be followed-up offline.

Here’s a fun one I haven’t seen before, for the little kiddos– Math Cats!

Click here: –> www.mathcats.com

“Helping families enjoy mathematics outside school through a series of fun and engaging, high-quality challenges” These are some clever real-world math activities for middle schoolers. While its not a typical site for Mr. B’s list, its good– and I think it is a good resources for middle school teachers. I could see a simple “johnny go to the board and pick an activity for tomorrow…” way to use in class. Cool!

CLICK HERE: –> www.figurethis.org

Now this is a fantastic online science museum and family of science websites!

CLICK HERE –> http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/

“The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception located in San Francisco, California. We believe that following your curiosity and asking questions can lead to amazing moments of discovery, learning, and awareness, and can increase confidence in your ability to understand how the world works. We also believe that being playful and having fun is an important part of the process for people of all ages.

We create tools and experiences that help you to become an active explorer: hundreds of explore-for-yourself exhibits; a Web site with over 25,000 pages of content; film screenings; workshops for lifelong learners including day camps for kids and family investigations; evening art and science events for adults—plus much more. We also create professional development programs for educators, and are at the forefront of changing the way science is taught. We share our exhibits and expertise with museums worldwide.”

Here’s one for the Family & Consumer Science folks, a fun site on the science of cooking:
CLICK HERE –> http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/index.html

Lee’s Summit school district in Missouri has a fantastic list of FACS resources online, including many interactives:

CLICK HERE: http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/facs.htm

I have finally sat down, focused, and spelled out (in detail) how to go about adding a youtube-style video clip into Notebook Software for all your SMART Board users.  Please note that, since it is lengthy, I have dedicated a page on Mr. B’s List just for this, and you can reach the page by CLICKING HERE

check out www.storyplace.org — “the children’s digital library” try some of their original stories and online activities.

Children and their parents have for years enjoyed attending storytimes, checking out books and participating in a number of other educational, entertaining and participatory programs at the various locations of The Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County. StoryPlace, an interactive web site, came about to provide children with the virtual experience of going to the library and participating in the same types of activities the library offers.

From magickeys.com, these are animated / illustrated new children’s storybooks online. Very cool for Prek/K classes and libraries. All are illustrated, many are interactive, very interesting stuff here from up-and-coming authors if I’m not mistaken. Let Mr. B know what you think!

I think its worth a quick reminder: MANY of the websites I share are best used in FULL SCREEN mode when you are on a SMART Board. This often helps your students see better, and can eliminate distractions.

For both Internet Explorer and Firefox, you can quickly jump to “Full Screen” with F11. easy.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/xpeditions/atlas/

“Xpeditions Atlas” are simple but effective maps made for copying and printing. Mr. B encourages you to also explore the other National Geographic sites!

http://www.centeroncongress.org/interactive-learning-modules <-- This is a cool one for the Social Studies teachers who need some fresh ways to cover US Congress. This is from the "Center on Congress" from Indiana University, and all the modules are efficiently interactive and media-rich. COOL STUFF!

"Developed for students as well as the general public, these interactive learning activities are designed to give you a fresh perspective on how the United States Congress works, your role in the process, and peoples' perceptions about Congress."

http://www.centeroncongress.org/interactive-learning-modules

COOOL. if you cover the solar system, etc, this is a fun one. Among other things, Mr. B particularly likes the “current conditions”….. for the SUN hahah. Check it out, click here —> www.spaceweather.com

Amber Coggin’s has a great list of resources for SMART board, definately another site to check out:

CLICK HERE –> http://smartboardgoodies.com/goodiesindex/

Cool.

Boston’s Museum of Science Online (www.mos.org) has some good interactives and virtual exhibits and a wealth of good science resources. Check it out!

To go directly to the museums “events and activities” page, which includes podcasts / videocasts and virtual exhibits, CLICK HERE http://www.mos.org/events_activities

Or to simple go to the museum’s home pages, click here –> www.mos.org

Music teachers you just have to try this. Hilarious, fun, interesting, I think young students would have a ball ‘customizing’ the music. Too cool! click here –> www.incredibox.fr

What you do is drag sound loops from the bottom, up onto the little guy figures.