Scholastic-Interactive Whiteboard Activities

Scholastic is just about the best site around. You can find almost anything you need right there. Recently @jtubbs tweeted about the whiteboard activities...ready-made and easy to use. Check it out by clicking on the title of this post.

MathTwo

Here's a good interactive site students could use to practice addition and multipication. The games all follow the same format...add or multiply and type the answer, however students may practice leveled problems. Lower grades may use the easy while upper grades go to the more difficult. Make sure you try this out first to make sure you have anything you need on your computer to run this program. Thanks to the blog, iLearn Technology. Remember to click on the title to go to the MathTwo site.

Time for Time

I follow Anne Marie's blog Talking Smartboards and she always has something neat to share. She posts easily accessible interactives that can be used on the whiteboard. All you have to do is take a few minutes to look at the site, turn on the whiteboard and make sure the Cat5 cable is plugged in so you have the internet.

This site is an interactive clock which gives you the current time. I especially like this site because you can change the clock using the buttons at the bottom. Think about using this clock not only to tell the current time but to talk about what time it would be in 1 minute, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or an hour. Students find this concept difficult to understand and this interactive clock might help them!

When you go to the site, you should click on the clock to open the interactive application. Notice that on the home page you will find a student game, teacher lesson plans, worksheets and a wealth of resources to practice telling time.

Google Squared

I recently heard about Google Squared on Twitter and followed the link to find a fantastic search engine. I might call it a knowledge engine actually. If you click on the title of this post you will go to Google Squared. Type a topic in the space...I used roller coasters...and click square it. Wait a second or so and you will be amazed at what you see. Squared is part of Google Labs. This means it is in beta...or the development stage. I love anything Google especially since everything is free, free, free!

Reminder

I follow WritingFix on Twitter and I am always impressed with their tweets and their website. I blogged about WritingFix last November but I wanted to remind you about this great site. Take a few minutes and click here to go to WritingFix. You will find anything you need to help you plan for writing

Plagiarism Tool

Time to talk to your students about plagiarism? 10 minutes...that's all this takes. This video type lesson is from a university but could certainly be used in middle school classes. You'll need to adapt it to fit your students and your project but it would certainly help students as they begin their research project. I'd project it and discuss each section with them so I could discuss and adapt but students could just as easily review it independently. You'll also find this on the middle school weebly site in the Language Arts section.

Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt is a neat activity to use on the interactive whiteboard. Students read and follow the directions to find the treasure. It's great practice for reading and moving left, right, up and down. Whiteboard not working??? Let students use this on a computer! Click on the title to go to the site.