Professional Documents
Culture Documents
December 2006
December 2006
December 2006
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Art:
Curriculum Links
On-air Orchestra - Kid’s Space
Create paintings or view galleries
Language Arts: http://www.kids-space.org/
http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter
Citation Machine Science:
Sketch in 3D
http://citationmachine.net Bad Science
www.sketchup.com
Online resources for young writers http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/ The Why Files
ESL: basic/yngwrite.html http://whyfiles.org
Language activities Math:
www.bbc.co.uk/languages Effective Math Videos Social Studies:
EspanOle! http://k12wiki.wikispaces.com/ Geography World—tons of maps!
http://www.espanole.org Effective+Math+Videos
http://members.aol.com/
Electronic Tools for Middle School Math bowermanb/101.html#TABLE%20OF%20CONTENTS
Health & PE: http://www.kentonschools.org/mslocker/ Virtual Tours
lockerms.html
PBS for life! http://www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html
Music:
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife
Music Hotlist Links
Kidfood—eat right Note: the links are “hot” which means you can click on
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/music.html
http://www.kidfood.org/teachers/t_links.html them and they will take you to the webpage.
Smartboard Tips
Would you like to link a United Streaming video COMMON/United Streaming folder again
or video clip you have found into your SMART and find your video clip. Left click on it and
Notebook lesson? Here’s how: drag it over to the Attachments screen of
1. First you will need to save the clips into the your notebook and drop it by letting go of
United Streaming folder in the COMMON the left mouse button.
folder. Do this by right clicking on the disc 5. Your video is now copied into your SMART
icon next to your United Streaming video/ Notebook, and you can maximize the Note-
clip and choosing “Save Target As”. book screen again.
2. Open your SMART Notebook lesson and 6. You can have your video start when you click 8. Click on “Current Attachments”. You will see a
click on the Attachments tab (on the right on an object on a page in your SMART Note- list of your videos. Choose the one you want by
hand side of the notebook). book. Once you have placed the object on clicking on it, and finally, also click on “Object” so
the page, right click on it. On the dropdown the video will play when you select the object.
3. You will need to have two windows open at
menu you will see “Link”. Left click on this. Then click “OK”.
the same time, so click on the icon in the
upper right corner of your screen that looks 7. You will see the following popup window: 9. Your video should now be linked to the object on
like two overlapping squares. your SMART notebook page. When you click on the
object the video should begin.
4. In the other window open the
Powerpoint Tips
students’ learning,
Often, we spend a great deal of time This is also a good strategy To do this, after you choose print,
designing a Powerpoint lesson, only to for special education classes. click Handouts - 3 slides per page.
have students absent. I have the Print three slides on a page This will allow a lined space on the
solution to catch up those absent stu- and the students can add side for the students to insert their
dents. their own notes. notes while having access to your les-
son.
If you are looking to save a few min-
You can print your Powerpoint in notes
utes, check out this link for premade
format so the students can see the
Powerpoint lessons. It’s a great site.
lesson without you having to re-teach.
www.worldofteaching.com