I just finished creating a new Smart Notebook activity called Raining Cats and Dogs that looks at similarities and differences between cats and dogs using a Venn Diagram. Students get to interact with the lesson by choosing whether a statement is related to a cat, a dog, or to both a cat and a dog. This […]

Here are four fun logic games that work great on the SMART Board and are perfect for some quality free-play during class. Better yet, create small groups and have your students work on these as a team. For example, my favorite activity, Code Master, is a perfect team-building opportunity. All four of these games have really cool interactions […]

Taking attendance on the SMART Board has never been so much fun…and educational. To take attendance, students go to the Smartboard and touch on the pumpkin located below their name. A smiling pumpkin will appear and it will greet the student with a cheerful “hello” using a different language. The activity contains “hello” in 17 different languages. […]

I just updated a game I created in Smart Notebook called The Sinking Octopus - Guess the Color.

This is a hangman-type game where students try to guess a word by selecting letters. If they select a letter that is in the word, the letter will be displayed in the correct position(s) of the word. However, if the letter is not contained in the word, it plays a splashing sound and the octopus sinks down the page.

Here’s another fun Algebra activity for the SMARTBoard called Are You Ready for Mathematics: Where Do I Go Go.

Challenge students at the whiteboard to make the equation true by moving the numbers and/or parenthesis to the correct location.

The activity has 15 questions that increase in difficulty and all possible solutions (correct and incorrect) are displayed when the Check Button is selected.

Finding primary-level spelling activities that look good and work great on the SMART Board is not always easy. I think you’ll find these two Internet activities are an exception. The first activity called Spin and Spell is an incredibly engaging activity that would be especially effective in the ESL classroom since it uses images and verbal pronunciations of all the […]

I just finished creating a new Notebook activity called “Pugsley Express - Base 10” to help early primary students understand counting by 10’s and 1’s.

The file has three sections starting with a story problem that asks students to count how many dog bones are on a train. Teachers can use these pages to develop student understanding of the problem.

Here’s an exciting new resource for the SMART Board I’ve been working on called Are You Ready for Mathematics: Only 4. This Smart Notebook activity challenges students to write mathematical expressions that equal a given number using only the digits 1, 2, 3, and 4. Most of the numbers presented to the students have multiple solutions, and […]

I have THREE great resources for the Smartboard related to coordinates and plotting points.

The first resource is an interactive Smart Notebook file I created called Plot-astic: Underwater Fish. This activity lets students plot points on a coordinate plane to generate an outline of a fish. When the last point is plotted, the fish magically appears and swims off the page. Plot-astic is very easy to use and it’s a great way to get your students to actively participate at the beginning of the year.

Here’s a fun K-2 activity for the SMART Board called The Green Snoop Monster that helps students recognize relationships between numbers, number words, object quantities, and simple expressions.

The activity contains 10 different pages that increase in difficulty by introducing values and quantities using different number models. On each page, students are asked to “Snoop” for the smallest value in the set. Number lines are provided on each page to help solidify the relationship between the values.