Written by James Hollis
My goal for today’s blog post was to find a fun and educational interactive activity related to Spring that students could use on the SMART Board. My search led me straight to Pollen Park.
The site contains interactive learning activities covering: light, sound, forces and motion, earth and beyond, and electricity.
Each area is broken down into multiple modules and each module contains an interactive learning activity, an interactive review activity, and a slide-show containing information about how the science is applied in the real world.
The website is called PEEP and the Big Wide World and it contains an amazing collection of educational games for the Primary grades. The graphics, audio, and characters are spectacular and all the games I’ve played with work great on a Smart Board Interactive Whiteboard.
The activities are all interactive and very few of them require keyboard input. Best of all, all of the activities work great on the SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard since most of the activities only require students to touch or drag objects.
Here’s my Top Five List for best SMART Board Science Resource for 2008
Science teachers will love the interactive Science lessons found on Harcourt’s Science Up Close site. The site has interactive explanations and demonstrations covering a variety of topics in Science for grades 1 through 6. The graphics are amazing and the explanations are very clear and easy to follow.
The objective is to use wheels and rods to create a contraption that will move an object to a target area. You can also take a look at other people’s contraptions to see how they succeeded. This application works great on the SMARTBoard and will keep your students (or you) occupied for a very long time.
The website has a lot of cool simulations that work great on your SMARTBoard interactive whiteboard. To help my daughter understand the different phases of the moon, we played around with the Lunar Phases simulation. Another thing that makes this site really outstanding is that each simulation has teacher guides and supporting material to help teachers create an effective experience.
I really like this idea of putting website resources in a fun little slideshow to share with other people. Here Karen Brooks puts together a slideshow that has a whole bunch of cool websites with interactive activities for Math and Science.