Teacher Tools Interactive Sites for Smartboard Use
Grades K - 5

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Way Back Machine

This service allows users to see archived versions of web pages of the past

Clipart Heaven

Tons for great, FREEE clipart - - Primary/Intermediate

Findsounds

Search the web for sound clips- - Primary/Intermediate

Image Encyclopedia

Hundreds to photographs arranged in categories - Primary/Intermediate Level

Math Teacher’s Toolkit

Compilation of Flash resources to support whole class teaching – Primary Level

Powermedia Plus

Hundreds of educational videos that can be downloaded to your computer - Primary/Intermediate Level

SqoolTube

Many free educational videos - Primary/Intermediate Level

Visual Aids

Grade K

Award Makers

Several sites to make your own awards

Graph Maker

Make a pictogram graph

Graphic Organizers

Dozens of printable graphic organizers – great for Smartboard use

Homework Excuse Creator

Fun class activity to address missing homework

Phonics Worksheets

Free printable worksheets – can use on smartboard – Primary Level

Visual Aids

Grade 1

Visual Aids

Grade 2

Worksheets

Free printable worksheets – can use on smartboard – Primary Level

Flash Cards

Make your own draggable flash cards to make matching games

Graphic Orgainzers

Reading graphic organizers and printables

Virtual Dice

Virtual 6 sided dice

Virtual Dice

Virtual 8 sided dice

Virtual Dice

Virtual 10 sided dice

Virtual Dice

Virtual 12 sided dice

Virtual Dice

Customize your own virtual dice

Grapher

Interactive – make your own bar graph

BeFunky

This is a free site that let's you make cartoon images of yourself using your own pictures.

PicSearch

Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 2,000,000,000 pictures.

Search For Video

Search the web for videos

Animoto

Make your own 30 sec. videos with music to use as an introduction to a lesson.  Really cool site!

Gigapan

Allows you to explore panoramic, high-resolution images in unique and fascinating ways.

Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Flash Who Wants to be a Millionaire was designed by a teacher for use in the classroom as a SmartBoard review game. This site has all of the tools needed to create a Who Wants to be a Millionaire review game, download your game for free, and play Who Wants to be a Millionaire in your classroom.

Jeopardy

Flash Jeopardy was designed by a teacher for use in the classroom as a SmartBoard review game. This site has all of the tools needed to create a Jeopardy review game, download your game for free, and play jeopardy in your classroom.

Board Game

Flash Board Game was designed by a teacher for use in the classroom as a SmartBoard review game. This site has all of the tools needed to create a free review game, download the game for free, and play in your classroom.

Tecsmart

Free site but you must register.  Download/upload smartboard templates and lessons.  A site for educators by educators.

Electronic Field Trips

Great site by Kentucky Education Department.  Includes teaching guides and movies.  Free.

Topmarks

A wonderful site from the UK. It features greatveducational resources which work well on interactive whiteboards in the classroom. The resources are organized by subject, age group and category to make them easy for you to find.

Multiplication.com

This site contains the techniques, tips, and secrets used by master teachers!

Mrs. Gray's Research Sites for Kids

Mrs. Gray's Research Sites for Kids - a search engine that searches only a few (22 ) select kid-friendly reference sites.

KidsClick

Annotated searchable directory of websites created for kids by librarians. Searchable by subject, reading level and degree of picture content.

LTS

Child-safe Image Search:  You can use these images for educational purposes without worrying about cost or copyright.  Included photos and illustrations in many categories including environment, animals and birds, people, food and dring, history, technology, etc. – Primary/Intermediate Level

Pics4Learning

Child-safe Image Search:  Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection.

Teachers’  Domain

Teachers’ Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities.

Rockingham County Schools

Technology integration resources for Grades K-5 in all curriculum areas

Super Timer

Use this super timer on your smartboard to time classroom tasks

Edublogs.TV

A video hosting site dedicated to education

The Future’s Channel

high quality multimedia content which educators in any setting can use to enliven curriculum, engage students and otherwise enhance the learning experience.

Xtimeline

a free web-based timeline. Easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos.

vozMe

Allows you to type in text and save it as a male or female voice mp3 file – in different languages!

Schmoop

Provides study guides /summaries for literature, history, and poetry

Tag Gallaxy

Awesome way to view images on your smartboard.  Enter a keyword (tag) and then click on the big planet. All the images will fly toward and cover the planet. You can then rotate the planet to view the different images that match your tags. When you find a picture you like, you can click on it to enlarge it.  Amazing!

Morgue File

The morgue file free photo reference archive provides the public and creative community

Edupic Graphical Resource

Teacher designed free image resource for educators and their students

Spell with Flickr

For those times you want a word to look really funky and you’ve exhausted all the fonts. This pulls in photos of letters from flickr to make your word.

Phrasr

Type a phrase and the site will pull in words from Flickr to match each word and then animates them in sequence.

 

Bookr

Bookr is a tool to create and share your own photobook/storybook using Flickr images.  Great literacy tool!

Memry

Enter  a keyword and Memry automatically makes a Memory game using Flickr images!