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[|ETFO Lesson Study.pdf] by Brian Harrison, York Region Local [|Lesson Study - SEDL article.pdf] by Joanna Gilmore and Ashley Hawkins [|New features of Notebook 10] Smartboard

Books: Literature Circles through technology by Terence Cavanaugh - A great resource to enhance your language arts program with technology. This books offers a variety of ideas like: ebooks, blog sites, blog software, wiki farms, online literature circles, digital logs, journals and discussions as well as how to use them. 

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Smart Ideas—Lesson Activities to use with Smart Ideas software http://www.edcompass.smarttech.com/ec/en-US/Learning+Resources/ Lesson+Activities/SMART+Ideas+Activities/Canada/default.htm  Smart Ideas—Clipart http://www.smarttech.com/products/smartideas/clipart/index.asp  North Central Regional Educational Laboratory http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm Teachnology—The Web Portal for Educators—Graphic Organizers http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic Scholastic—Teachers—Graphic Organizers http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/graphicorg/ Instructional Strategies Online http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/graphicorganizers/ "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words” - From Now On—Jamie McKenzie http://www.fno.org/oct97/picture.html Graphic Organizer Rubric  http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/inspirationrubric.html The Graphic Organizer  http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html Graphic Organizers that Support Specific Thinking Skills  http://www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/skills/thinkmaps.html Graphic Organizers—Houghton Mifflin  http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/graphorg/ Graphic Organizers—ProTeacher http://www.proteacher.com/020067.shtml <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Big6 and Higher Ed: Information Seeking Strategies and Library Instruction http://www.big6.com/showenewsarticle.php?id=508 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Inspiration/Kidspiration [|http://www.inspiration.com] <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: rgb(37, 203, 53);"> Links: http://del.icio.us/cpopofski Chris Popofski's links to useful Smartboard resources [|http://classhomework.com] This is a free website to post your homework on. You do not need to create anything, just a few small details. This way the parents and students can be reminded of homework and upcoming assignments. You are also able to upload to your site if you wish. More features are available when you subscribe of course. [|keepvid.galleryitem] Here are the instructions for getting YouTube videos for Notebook, and done in a notebook file so that you can see how tabs work. Just click and drag it onto a page in the Notebook. http://www.radio-canada.ca/jeunesse/rdijunior/index.shtml A good French site for Junior+/Intermediate/Senior students. I have my grade 5's view a news broadcast. The news anchor does speak fast but the kids get use to it and are comprehending more each time. http://www.tfo.org/education/enseignants/toutes_les_ressources/immersion/index.cfm?categorie=enseignants&subs=3 French immersion TFO Resources. http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf A fun Halloween pumpkin carving activity that would help students improve fine motor skills on the SMART Board. [|www.eworkshop.on.ca] Eworkshop is an online resource developed for elementary teachers by the Ontario Ministry of Education and TFO. It includes modules on Literacy and Numeracy with videos of teachers in action, activity sheets, lesson plans and more. <span style="color: rgb(37, 203, 53);">http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/tutorials.asp <span style="color: rgb(15, 0, 0);">Two minute tutorials to watch about Smartboard basics http://www.explorelearning.com/ Gizmos...Online simulations that power inquiry and understanding. <span style="font-size: 122%; font-family: Wingdings; left: -8.05%; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); position: absolute;">n http://www.popularfront.com/snowdays/ The snow will be here soon. Improve your students' fine motor skills as they create snowflakes on the SMART Board. http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/doc/intro.jsp Online Math Manipulatives.....way cool! [|http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/News and research/EdCompass/Subscribe.htm] Sign up to receive a montly newsletter from EDCompass....includes latest information and web links for SMART Boards. http://www.tmerc.ca/index.php Trent University Math Education Research Collaborative - Using Lesson Study to research effective whiteboard use in Mathematics http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/online/index.asp Get online training here with a live instructor! http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/tutorials.asp Watch two minute video tutorials on things to do with the Smartboard

http://educ.queensu.ca/prof/190-191/resources/index.shtml - great resource on MANY things! http://sixrevisions.com/tools/15-free-tools-for-web-based-collaboration/ - These websites might be helpful for teams to work together on lesson plans without being in the same location. http://blogs.wsd1.org/iwb/ - variety lessons created by the Winnipeg School Division

<span style="color: rgb(37, 203, 53);">Smartboard Lessons: [|sept 08 primary calendar.notebook] Primary Calendar, Weather and Counting Pages from Cheryl Wallace [|Tension and Characterization.notebook]The Iron Man Story by Ted Hughes [|Scary pictures.notebook] You will need to edit these pages to suit your needs but the scary sounds are attached....BOO! [|GRAPHERS.EXE] - You can download and install this Ministry Licensed software that works great on the smartboard. http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/longsmart.html Tons of smartboard lessons! [|making connections.notebook] [|Q chart Pink Shirt .notebook] Main idea and Questioning [|newsreport.notebook] Just an example of one of our texts of the weeks. I do a different lesson with it each day (Conventions, Organization, Summarizing, Main Idea...etc). Well done! This is a fun game that I like to play with the kids to review. I used to use an overhead the smart board is way cooler. Kids love it.

2 new pages to add to your primary calendar. 1 is using dimes and pennies to indicate the date ( or could be # of days in school.) The $ is on infinite cloner so it just slides onto the bank. The other coins are in the gallery if y ou want to use them too. For the second page, use the dice for 10's and 1's to generate a number. Spin the spinner to see what you have to do. The 100's chart is there for help. The spinner text can be easily edited by clicking on the double arrow - you can change the # of sections and their colours too. Enjoy! Cheryl

[|creating pull tabs.notebook] A couple of how-to pages on making image and text pull tabs [|Manual for SMART Notebook By Steph Scott.notebook] A really great training manual

Water Cycle and Seasons Lesson for Grade 1/2. I thought I would share this lesson developed for my Grade 1/2 class. It's mostly about the Water Cycle, but I added some fun stuff about the Seasons for the Grade 1 students. Before using this lesson, we did some characteristics of water demonstrations as well as some separate experiments on evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. This was a lesson to pull all of that together. I took the blank Water Cycle, mixed it up and copied it. The students cut and paste the mixed up water cycle back in order on construction paper. Hope it works for you. Mette

=__**Grade 7 and 8 Math lessons - some can be modified for the junior grades**__= <span style="color: rgb(248, 22, 22);">**Circumference** - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221);">with a link to a Alberta Learn website explaining how the diameter always goes "3 and a bit" times into the circumference of a circle. There is a video and an interactive activity for the kinesthetic learners. (I had problems showing the video at school, worked great at home, so this could be an at-home activity for the students) <span style="color: rgb(253, 28, 28);">**Angles** <span style="color: rgb(11, 9, 9);"> <span style="color: rgb(43, 116, 233);">This lesson is on measuring angles using a protractor, classifying angles, looking at the relationships in parrallel lines with a transversal. Slides can be adapted to grade 7 and 8 Math. The first few slides were taken and edited from a presentation that I saw by Ben Hazzard and the others I created using notebook software and Geometer's Sketchpad. <span style="color: rgb(11, 9, 9);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(250, 25, 25);">Area of a Trapezoid <span style="color: rgb(17, 14, 14);"> ** <span style="color: rgb(16, 15, 15);">[[file:area of trapezoid Nelson 5.4.notebook]] <span style="color: rgb(11, 9, 9);">Lesson was based on Area of a Trapezoid using Nelson (5.4) <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(250, 25, 25);">Probability ** <span style="color: rgb(21, 9, 9);">[[file:7Prob Theo vs Exp.notebook]] -- geared for grade 7's with the focus on theoretical vs <span style="color: rgb(11, 9, 9);">experimental probability