Content+Area+Resources

=Content Area Resources:=

__**All Content Areas**__
http://teacherslovesmartboards.com/notebook-files/

=__Fine Arts__=

Ideas for Whiteboard
> ===General Web Resources=== > **ArtsEdge** []Using resources, lessons, standards, and how to's. Try their [|Look-Listen-Learn] section. **Teacher Tap: Applied Arts** []Links to professional organizations, starting points, resources for teachers, young adults, and children. **Teacher Tap: Fine Arts** []Links to professional organizations, starting points, resources for teachers, young adults, and children. **Teacher Tap: Music** []Links to professional organizations, starting points, #|resources for teachers, young adults, and children. =__Language Arts__= = =
 * Analyze works of art
 * Compare techniques
 * Demonstrate drawing techniques
 * Explore famous artists
 * Create art as a group
 * Examine sculpture and masks
 * Explore a [|school mural]at Ambleside Primary School.Art PowerPoints []

Ideas for Whiteboard

 * Circle elements to check authenticity of a website
 * Explore #|editing and proofreadingmarks
 * Highlight words in sentences and paragraphs - use e-books!
 * Identify the fact or opinion in an article
 * Match words
 * Use highlighter tool to highlight parts of speech (i.e., nouns, verbs, adjectives)
 * Practice words. Move the icon to see the answer.
 * Use a story starter, write a class story, chain story, or peer story
 * Put key words in middle and write two points of view
 * Scramble words and make sentences
 * Share autobiographies
 * Write a daily journal, news article, or newsletter with key information from news websites
 * Write poetry such as haiku
 * Write rhyming words
 * Write sentences based on photographs
 * On e-grid paper, plot the relationship between two characters (i.e., calm/stressed, happy/sad) through the book
 * Use photo of a person (i.e., character from book, person from history). Ask students to write in “bubble” about their thoughts.
 * Show a book cover, analyze the photo before you start reading, then after. Use bubbles for brainstorming.

Web-based Ideas for Whiteboard
Download Notebook files for language arts. **Evaluation Station** []Guidelines for evaluating essays, stories, and reports. **Language Arts PowerPoint Presentations**- K-5 & 6-12 [|Jefferson County Schools] **Sly's SmartRoom Hints, Ideas, & Tips** []Literature lessons with SMARTboard. **Visual Story Starters** []Start with photos then a few words.

General Web Resources
=__**Math**__=
 * EdSitement** []Art and culture, literature and language arts, and history resources. **ReadingQuest** []Strategies for reading. **Read Write Think** []Explore [|student materials], websites, and lessons. **Teacher Tap: Electronic Books** []Links to electronic books in the classroom. **Teacher Tap: English and Language Arts** []Links to professional organizations, starting points, resources for teachers, young adults, and children. **Teacher Tap: Magnet Poetry, Stories, & Mad Libs** []Links to fun online activities.

Ideas for Whiteboard

 * Use [|Froogle]to locate prices for activities
 * Build graphs
 * Create number lines
 * Explore area and perimeter
 * Explore shapes and patterns
 * Explore Pythagoras
 * Make change
 * Sort objects
 * Telling time
 * Work with math manipulatives and patterns

Web-based Ideas for Whiteboard
=__Science__=
 * Jefferson County Schools** [] **Interactive Math Websites** [] **National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Math** []Lots of e-manipulatives across grade levels. (Shockwave) **Teachers' Lab** from Learner.org []Explore the [|Shape and Space in Geometry] and [|Patterns in Mathematics]. **Explorelearning** [] Trial version of great interactive tool **Illumination Tools** from NCTM [] [] Lots of great online, interactive tools. **Teacher Tap: Mathematics** []Links to professional organizations, starting points, resources for teachers, young adults, and children.

Ideas for Whiteboard

 * Categorize (i.e., landforms, creatures)
 * Compare characteristics and properties (i.e., rocks/minerals, plant/animal cells, vertebrates/invertebrates)
 * Conduct a dissection (i.e., frog, owl pellet)
 * Explore science visuals and processes (i.e., cell parts, electrical circuit, life cycle, mitosis, water cycle)
 * BBC Games
 * Explore solar system
 * Go on virtual field trips
 * Label parts of plants and animals (i.e., skeletons)
 * Records science data (i.e., atmospheric pressure, wind, temperature, humidity, clouds). Write questions for an online expert
 * Trace plagues, spread of fires, and other movement.

Web-based Ideas for Whiteboard

 * [|Jefferson County Schools]

General Web Resources
=__**Social Studies**__=
 * American Museum of Natural History** []Lots of online activities. **Atomic Structure** by Jefferson Lab [] **BioInteractive** from HHMI []High school level interactive labs. **Cells Alive** []Lots of great animations for teaching cell biology, microbiology, immunology, and microscopy. Interactive animations on plant and animal cells, mitosis, meiosis, cell cycle. **Froguts** []Great virtual dissection software (subscription service) **KidWings** []Conduct a virtual owl pellet dissection, explore bird skulls, eggs, nests, feathers, beaks, feet, and other aspects of birds. **PBS: Science**
 * [|Mysteries of Deep Space]
 * Physics Lessons** [] Many online lessons. **Science Netlinks** from AAAS []Standards-based lessons. **Teachers' Lab** from Learner.org []Explore the [|Science of Light] and [|A Private Universe Project]. **Teacher Tap: Science** []Links to professional organizations, starting points, resources for teachers, young adults, and children. **Wayne's World: Online Textbook of Natural History: Biology 100** []Explore lots of topics in biology. Also, check out the section on [|plants] (i.e., how plants travel) and [|botany].

Ideas for Whiteboard

 * Build timelines
 * Categorize landforms
 * Compare time periods, groups, and civilizations (i.e., Mayans/Incans/Aztecs, Indian Tribes, Ancient Civilizations)
 * Compare political parties
 * Compare the clothing of rich and poor in specific time periods (i.e.,Victorian times). What would it be like to wear these clothes? How would they feel?
 * Distinguish laws, interpretation of law, and enforcement of law
 * Examine primary resource materials such as historic documents and maps
 * Label maps
 * Identify branches of government, states vs national government, types of governments
 * Show development of cities, movement of people (i.e., immigration), developments of products (i.e., transcontinental railroad, food from farm to city)
 * Take virtual field trips
 * Trace the movement of people (i.e., authors, characters in story, movement of troops, Lewis and Clark)

General Web Resources

 * EconEdLink** []Resources on economics. **EdSitement** []Art and culture, literature and language arts, and history resources. **Maps**
 * Greenwich Meridian- []
 * National Geographic Interactive Elements**
 * Xpedition Hall - []
 * Social Studies PowerPoint Presentations** - K-5 & 6-12
 * [|Jefferson County Schools]
 * Teacher Tap: Social Studies** []Links to professional organizations, starting points, resources for teachers, young adults, and children. **Social Studies for Kids** [] **Social Studies Links** []