Use
this instructional tool on your SMARTBoard
to teach students how to model tenths and
hundredths. Have your students drag the sliders
to a certain decimal and then write it on
the whiteboard. Click the hundredths button
and then write the new decimal to show equivalency.
Directions
for previewing & downloading the SmartBoard mini-movies
Now you can see
narrated videos of the directions below. Click
here to see the videos.
To preview
each mini-movie, simply click on its link (note:
each mini-movie is larger than actual size). To download
each mini-movie:
Using
Firefox on a Mac, control-click on the mini-movie link
you want and then select SAVE LINK AS...
Using Safari on a Mac, control-click on the link and
then select DOWNLOAD LINKED FILE AS...
Using
IE on a Windows machine, right-click and select SAVE
TARGET AS...
Sorry,
I have not tried to download a mini-movie using IE on a
Mac or Firefox on a Windows machine.
To
insert a mini-movie into a SMART Notebook file:
Open Notebook and click on the INSERT
menu.
Select FLASH FILE.
Navigate
through the window until you find the file you downloaded.
Select
the file and then click OPEN. Your SMARTBoard mini-movie
will appear on the page
Representing
Data
These awesome new mini-movies
allow teachers to input data for three different types
of graphs, create a table, and then have students come
to the SMARTBoard to drag points, bars, and slices to
create line, bar, and circle graphs. Check out the line
graph below for a preview.
Here's
a whole new section dedicated to teaching multiplication
with a SMARTBoard version of the dice game Circles
and Stars. In the classroom version, students roll
a die once to determine the number of circles. They draw
the circles on paper. They then use a second roll of the
die to determine the number of stars to draw inside the
circles. Finally, they write a multiplication expression
and product based on the circles and stars. In the SMARTBoard
version, students come to the board, push the CIRCLES
button for the number of circles and then the STARS
button for the number of stars.
With these
domino doubles, students can write an addition equation
horizontally and then click the button to turn the domino
vertically and write the equation with one number on top
of the other.
On the screen
your students will see a domino with no dots on one side.
Above the domino is a number. Using that number, and the
number of dots on the domino, students must figure out
the number of dots on the blank side.
This interactive site
is built for the visual learner! It introduces geometry
concepts to your students by relating them to something
they're all familiar with, letters! All of the mini-movies
above can be found on the site. Choose a concept
below to go to Alphabet Geometry:
