Elementary+SmartBoard+lessons

Hovey- Art- Color Mixing Lesson Summary: Through many of our painting lessons we need to review color mixing and this lesson is a fun way to reflect on color mixing, primary and secondary colors, warm and cool colors, and shades and tints. I use it all various levels of learning. Rediger - **Kindergarten - -at words ** Lesson Summary : We have been working on -at words and sounds letters make. The lesson had 2 dice. One with a letter and the second dice had "at". One student would come to board and roll the 2 dice which would make a word. The others would write the word on their individual whiteboards and the student at the board would write it on the whiteboard. Reflection - the lesson went well and all students were engaged. This was a pre-made lesson I found online. To extend the lesson I would have some letters on the individual dice that didn't make a word, and have the students decide if it was a word or not.

Schweitzer-Second Grade- Money Summary- This lesson was designed for students to practice identifying coins, counting coins and making change; some slides coming from Smart Exchange. This activity was first introduced to the entire class. Single students came to the front of the room to solve the problems. The rest of the class worked the problem on their slates. I also intend to use this as a math station on exploration days. Small groups could work the problems together, or take turns answering them individually. Reflection- I am glad I introduced this activity to the entire class first. Many learning opportunities arose as students developed various ways to solve the same problem. If a mistake was made the class could work as a whole to correct the error. Although the students have seen each of the slides, this is still a developing skill and continued practice with the same problems will be beneficial. When small groups are using this activity I would group them with varying abilities, as the slides become progressively harder.

 Droll-First Grade-Sight Words 1. Lesson Summary: My professional goals this year focus on sight word learning and use of the smartboard to support sight word learning. The lesson I chose to share was one of the sight word activities my class has used during our literacy centers time. Students worked independently or with one peer during 15 minute blocks. I borrowed the lesson from the smartexchange website and adapted it based on the length of time students would have to work. In this lesson you will find a variety of activities which challenge students to unscramble words, build words, read words, and write words. 2. Reflection: I really enjoy this lesson as an independent activity in the classroom. I especially love the movement it allows students to engage in while working on their sight word learning. The smartboard and these activities are highly motivating for students and seem to keep them engaged for the entire duration of centers.

1. **Lesson Summary**: Many of the children in my Pre-K class know all of their letters and are beginning to associate the sounds with those letters. I found a great lesson on the smartexchange website and have been using it during my center time. In the lesson, the students need to move pictures that start with a certain letter into a barrel. Only the pictures that begin with that letter will move, which allows the students to be more independent with the activity. One student moves the pictures, but the others in the group are involved as well! **2. Reflection:** I thought the lesson went very well. The students worked together as a group and really helped each other. They also learned how to move things on the smartboard. They stayed engaged and were excited when we did the lesson again. Over time, I could challenge the students by changing some of the pictures.
 * Buckwalter—Preschool-Alphabet Sorting **


 * Bell - 2nd Grade - Telling Time**
 * 1. Lesson Summary:** We completed Unit 3 in Math recently. However, many students have difficulties with the time portion of the test. Therefore, I felt it was necessary to go back and reteach telling time more specifically than what the math curriculum provided. Students were able to complete this lesson as a whole class using the Smart Board lesson that I found from SmartExchange to better review telling time by the hour, half hour, quarter hour and five minute increments. Once we were finished with this lesson, we followed up with individual telling time worksheets to reinforce what we had just worked on together.
 * 2. Reflection:** I thought this lesson went very well as all students were able to participate throughout this lesson. We were able to do many different types of work on the Smart Board and learn from one another when someone made a mistake. It was a great follow up to our lessons in our Every Day Math series.


 * Lundberg-Spanish Weather**
 * 1. Lesson Summary:** We have been learning weather vocabulary and how to use them in a sentence. Each class was divided into groups and created their own weather forecast that highlighted vocabulary about months, seasons, and weather. To present these forecast I downloaded a basic weather lesson from smart exchange that had a map and different weather symbols. Students could use the map and symbols as a visual aid and manipulate them to enhance their presentation. They also had the option of using the markers to show weather patterns like the real meteorologists.
 * 2. Reflection:** I thought the smartboard aspect enhanced their presentation and also helped to connect weather words to pictures. I would probably have given them more time to experiment with the interactive map and practice using it for their forecast. In the future, I would like to try using a smartboard game to continue building on the weather vocabulary.

**1. Lesson Summary:** Some of my students are learning to tell time and how to read clocks correctly in their General ed classrooms. I used a Telling Time lesson from SmartExchange to continue teaching how to use and read a clock correctly. The lesson focuses on helping students tell time to the hour, half-hour, quarter hour, and nearest 5 minutes using both analog and digital clocks. **2. Reflection:** I like using this participial lesson on time because students need to be able to use both an analog and digital clock. Due to technology, students are not using as many analog clocks to tell time like they used to. The first page shows 6 different types of clocks (cell phone, analog, 2 digital, wrist watch, and alarm clock**).** We talked about each one and I asked them where they could find them, which ones they've seen before, and if they could read any of the times that were shown. We then moved on and completed the lesson by taking turns matching times to the correct clock, making the time on the clock, and talking about different ways to write times ex ( 4:00pm, 4 o'clock, four o'clock, 4:00). This was a very engaging lesson and is one that I will continue to use.
 * Mateer- Special Education - Telling Time [[file:Time Comprehensive.notebook]]**

1. Lesson Summary - Taught the lesson on the "Tricky Teens", Teacher's Manual pp. 108-109**.** The students had previously made number cards for the teens, and we had put them in order from 10-19. I downloaded from SMART Exchange the Math activity called "Teen Spinner**",** and put it up on the Smartboard. The children took turns coming up to the Smartboard, tapping on the spinner -(which then spun around and eventually landed on a number**),** then identifying the number. 2. Reflection - The students loved this activity, and it gave them good practice at identifying the teen numbers. Another way I plan to use this again in another way is to have a student spin a number, and then the rest of the students will have to make that with their counting sticks. I will use this after we have had the lesson on "teens being a group of ten plus another number". There are lots of ways this spinner could be incorporated into the Math lessons on teens.
 * Yoder - Kindergarten Math - Tricky Teens**

1. Lesson Summary: I used a fact family lesson I downloaded from Smart Exchange at the beginning of our fact family unit. It went right along with our triangle flash cards and Everyday Math. The lesson displayed fact families in houses. Students took turns coming up and writing at the Smart Board. They recorded two addition and two subtraction number models for each fact family. 2. Reflection: This worked great and went right along with Everyday Math. This provided an excellent lead-in to our study of fact families. The graphics were bright and engaging. I ended up printing some of them and using them for a fact family bulletin board.
 * Miller - 2nd grade Math - fact families**[[file:Fact Family smart board.notebook]]

Lesson Summary: The students completed a mini-lesson on the lines of longitude and latitude. The smart board activity contains a short quiz, extra info. on longitude vs latitude, song lyrics (goofy, but fun), and links to a short video and game in which students must identify a hidden treasure when given coordinates. Reflection: The intro. to this lesson is too long, so I taught a summary of longitude and latitude and then used the activities (song, games, etc.) from the lesson with the students. The game was very engaging.
 * Adam - 5th Grade Social Studies --Reviewing Longitude and Latitude**

Lesson Summary: My students created their own activity to peer teach the concept to the class. They mostly created sorting activities. There is one that is a quiz format. One group used pictures to distinquish between nouns and verbs. One group also did nouns and adjectives. 2. Reflection: The first attempt did not go well The students are very familiar with SmartBoard for math lessons. They were excited to be bale to create their own activity. I differentiated depending on their skill level. The first attempt did not go well because two groups three groups did games. The games did not teach the difference between the parts of speech. They were fun games, but not usable for teaching. After redirection, they created activities to sort the different parts of speech.
 * Meier-3rd Grade Language Arts Common Nouns and Proper Nouns**

1. Lesson Summary: Students will define the tern "natural resource", list natural resources, identify them as renewable, nonrenewable, or inexaustible, and distinguish between natural resources and products. 2. Reflection:
 * Yoder - 4th Grade Social Studies - Natural Resources smartboard lesson[[file:natural resources.notebook]]**

1. Lesson Summary: Students review vocabulary for family in Chinese. Then they listen to the story of Ping as they see it on the SMART board. Next they look at famous places and things from the story such as the Yang ze river and cormorant fishing. Finally they do a comprehension activity to evaluate their understanding. 2. Reflection: I felt that the tech side used a lot of the things we learned at the PD session. Unfortunately, I need to make it more Target Language centric. It uses too much English compared to my regular classes. I liked the multimedia capability and the interactivity though**.** I thought the students got more out of the lesson than if I just read them a story. 1. Lesson Summary: Students needed to identify the parts of a light bulb and how to make an open and closed circuit. I used the smart board lesson as an activity in my classroom after I did the initial teaching of the lesson. 2. Reflection: The kids had a great time using the SmartBoard and it was easy to identify which students could create a circuit, identify an open or closed circuit, and how to wire a circuit correctly.
 * O'Brien - Chinese - Ping reading [[file:ping.notebook]]**
 * Bender - 3rd grade - Electricity[[file:Electricity-1.notebook]]**

> Reflection: This activity works well with being able to decipher between the coins. When the coins were blown up it is easier to identify the face on the coin, color, and what the back looks like. This activity wanted the kids to count how much money was on each page. To check themselves they had to slide a pull-tab over to see if they wrote down the correct amount. Only having one student working on the SmartBoard activity at a time it worked well. If I had a whole class partaking in the activity I would have to have the rest of the students have whiteboards at their desks working on the same problem independently. Most students work at different speeds, so having more options for the faster workers would be ideal.
 * Proctor- Special Education- Counting Coins [[file:money(1).notebook]]**
 * 1) Lesson Summary: Students were introduced to the concept of money, how much each coin was worth, and how to count them effectively in their own classroom. When they came down to my room they were then given the Counting Coins SmartBoard activity so that they would be able to manipulate the coins while counting them.


 * McAtee-5th grade**
 * Lesson summary: We play Jeopardy as a review for our social studies chapters. I used an already created Jeopardy game, and catered it to my own needs and curriculum.**
 * Reflection: This was a fun change for our Jeopardy review. The kids enjoyed it.**

1. Lesson Summary - I used notebook to create an introduction to blogging to present to 3rd graders as we begin to use kidblogs.org. The notebook file contains slides reviewing why people blog, commenting etiquette, links to a BrainPop video on blogging, and links to blogs written by people they know/for specific purposes. 2. I have not created lessons such as this one before (I typically create "games" or activities to review a concept) - but found notebook to be a great presentation tool. It was easy to link websites to images, and very nice to have everything in one place during our presentation/discussion.
 * Hartsock - 3rd grade -**

1. Lesson Summary: Students were introduced to the concept of even and odd numbers. I created a Halloween even/odd smartboard lesson for students to practice this new concept. During literacy centers, students worked in pairs or individually to drag numbers into the correct vortex, roll the dice to find a sum and write odd/even, and count up various Halloween objects and label them odd/even. 2. Reflection: The vortex part of the game went well as it was already preset to allow only its mandated numbers into the vortex. However, I believe it would be more beneficial for students to have a self-check opportunity. I would like to add the 'pull down' option for sums of numbers and the Halloween objects so that students could have their work reinforced right away.
 * Hunter-1st Grade[[file:Odd.notebook]]**

1. Lesson Summary: We had spent a few days working with nouns and verbs. The students practiced giving examples of nouns and verbs and finding these in sentences. As a form of assessment, I created a vortex game for the students to play sorting nouns and verbs. We played the game as a large group two separate times with two different groups of words. 2. Reflection: There are some issues with students staying interested and waiting for their turn when playing a game as a large group. I tried to call the students up quickly so that we rotated through them all without long pauses. I was surprised to see that two students, who seemed like they understood nouns and verbs well, were not able to drag their word to the correct label. This was a good form of assessment to see who could sort their word independently. After playing two rounds, I gave the students the option to continue playing with others or silently read. A few chose to continue playing the game. Of course they thought they just got to play with the smart board longer, but they were actually practicing their nouns and verbs at the same time. :)
 * LaBelle - 3rd Grade**


 * Swantz - Keynote in 4th grade - the touch part of the smart board - not a formal SmartBoard lesson**
 * 1) Lesson Summary: I worked for three days with each section of 4th grade on Keynote. Students began with a graphic organizer telling about themselves - they had written a personal narrative based on that organizer. We created cards for each square in the organizer. Students learned how to add pictures, change font, and add transitions between slides.
 * 2) Reflection: There were issues trying to keep the students together - some were finished with a step long before others. After the first two cards we let the students move through the cards at their own speed. That really helped. I LOVED being able to teach from the board. It is so much easier than moving back and forth between the computer and board.


 * Hochstetler - 5th grade [[file:Blood on the River Jstwn.notebook]]**
 * 1) Lesson Summary : As an informal assessment and as a review prior to starting our SS lesson, I posed 2 questions to the class on the SmartBoard. They answered verbally and then Ss came up to manipulate the board to reveal the correct answers.
 * 2) Reflection:I will add to this lesson as we continue reading "Blood on the River". Having Ss review prior to starting each day brings them back to the main objectives that we are learning throughout the novel. I learned how to create a lesson using a variety of tools - the dissolving balloons, creating & sliding over an answer tab. Having it be self-checking is a helpful feature. One change - come up with a reminder to myself which answer is under which balloon so I can reveal the correct answer that the S shared. Saving this in Dropbox is helpful when creating lessons at home or at school. I do this now with all my lessons.


 * Noble - 5th grade "Testing Tidbits"**
 * 1) Summary: This is practice for ITBS. We solve the problems on the smart board and as a class we discuss the question and how we found the answer.
 * 2) Reflection: There are twenty overheads and I only have 19 slides, so I am missing one. I also need to find the shapes for slides 17 and 18. Otherwise, the kids love it. They enjoy solving the problems on the smart board more than in their notebooks. I would like to do this with Daily Bite, but I would like to add tabs to show the corrections.

1. Lesson Summary: For comprehension, second graders read and discussed a leveled reader book called __It's About Time__ and took a test over the book. We then did 2 ipad telling time activities. 2. Reflection: The nonfiction book was about how people told time before clocks were invented and the different methods of telling time throughout the years. The students are also learning about telling time in math, so I wanted to coordinate a math and reading lesson(I help 3 of the 5 students in math as well). The students enjoyed a change of pace in reading by doing math once. I did not hook the ipad to the smart board for this particular activity, and this is one thing I would change. The ipad is not interactive on the smart board, but the students were still engaged even when it was not his/her turn.
 * Gregg - Title 1**

1. Lesson Summary: This lesson was used for a Literacy Center with 3 to 4 children in the center at one time. I created a lesson with two pictures on each page and below the pictures were corosponding number of sound boxes. The children took turns making the sounds and recording what they heard. After completing the word they recorded what they wrote on a paper to hand in while the next child had a turn. 2. Reflection: The lesson went well after an intial problem that I now know how to solve! :) The children were not able to write in the box but I now know that when that happens I have to orient the board!
 * Billups - Kindergarten**

1. Lesson Summary: This lesson was used for a Literacy Center with 3 or 4 children in the center at one time. The lesson is used for rhyming words. Children take turns dragging a rhyming picture to the corosponding picture that rhymes. After completing the activity they record two or three of their responses on paper to hand in. 2. Reflection - Lesson worked great and they enjoyed it!
 * Billups - Kindergarten**

1. Lesson Summar: This lesson was used as a Literacy Center. Groups range from 3-5 kids. When they get to the Smart Board they discuss who will go first, second, third and so forth. The first person taps the dice and moves his marker and says the high frequency word. This is a great review of the sight words we are working with in our Theme. Peer assessments are key for this. If someone is having trouble or says the wrong word the other group members are responsible for helping and encouraging. 2. Reflection: I think this lesson works well for Literacy Centers. The kids enjoyed pushing the dice. I have made a few other game boards and change the "markers" which is always fun for them. As we move into new themes I will use the same template but insert different words.
 * Stumpf-1st Grade**

1. Lesson Summary- In Language Arts we were studying contractions. Students came up to the smart board and drew lines from the contraction to the two words that made the contractions. This lesson also several games (memory and spelling) that students completed during centers the rest of the week. 2. Reflection- This was a great lesson! I really like how the games were used during centers, it was a great way to reinforce the concept that was learned earlier in the week! 1. Lesson Summary-I used this lesson for two reading groups to review making an inference. The lesson begins with reviewing what an inference is, we practice one together underlining clues and discussing what we already know. Next up was a BrainPop video on Inferencing. That was followed by 4 stories/answers. On each story we were increasingly more independent going from doing them together, to partners, to individuals. We underlined clues, and popped the balloons for the answers. Finally, we reviewed and had a quiz. Every student was at the Smart Board at least once. 2. Reflection--This was a good lesson to review. I will change the balloons as the answers seemed a little too obvious.
 * Simon- Third Grade- Contractions**
 * Juilfs--Fourth Grade--Making an Inference**

1. Lesson Summary - Solving word problems and thinking about the step-by-step process to choose the right operation can be difficult for many students. I used this lesson to assist with understanding the process and to make it easier for them to choose an operation to use with the numbers given in a story problem. This lesson was done with both of my math groups. 2. Reflection - I think this lesson went well, because many students asked, "Can we do another one?" Next time I would add some more story problems to it.
 * Gingerich - 4th grade - Solving Word problems**

1. Lesson Summary - This lesson was used as a review of common and proper nouns. The lesson begins by looking at examples of nouns and words that are not nouns. Then the students move words into catagories of proper nouns and singular nouns. There are sentences to circle and underline to distinguish between the two types of nouns and a game to play. 2. This was good reinforcement for nouns after the initial exposure.
 * Shaw - Fourth Grade - Common & Proper Nouns**

The students enjoyed interacting with the SMART BOARD to find number patterns. Even some of my math challenged students were able to catch on quickly!
 * King-This is a first grade math lesson** focused on Frames-and Arrows observing what rule is to be followed and looking at number patterns on the SMART BOARD 100's chart. Reflection:

**Kral - Library - Second Grade - Sorting Everybody Books **
 * 1) **Lesson Summary: ** After discussing how the library is arranged and the various parts of the library students learn how the books are organized, specifically in the everybody section. This activity for sorting everybody books used before actually sorting and shelving everybody books.
 * 2) **Reflection: ** I felt that this activity went well. Students seemed to enjoy using the SMART board. I feel is assisted students when it came time to sort using actual books. Unfortunately, I was only able to implement this activity at WE because there is a SMART board in the library. I hope to use this activity next year with students at all elementaries. I have tweaked the activity for third grade, which will be completed in the coming months. They will be learning about how Fiction books are sorted.

1. This lesson is an extension of the pilgrim role play I have always done in my classroom. Thee are several activities within this notebook........sorting what you could take on the Mayflower, what the native americans brought to the first Thanksgiving and a true false pre and postest among other things. There were also many links to resources on the Internet to explore both the Mayflower and Plimouth Plantation. 2. Reflection........This was a great extension of activites we already did in first grade. It brought both the Mayflower and the Plantation to life for the kids.
 * Wilson--First Grade--Pilgrim Journey**[[file:Mrs. Wilson's Pilgrims and American Indians.notebook]]

1. Lesson Summary- In first grade we discussed with the holidays coming up the importance of making good choices when choosing what we eat. We talked about what makes foods healthy vs unhealthy. We then categorized a set of different foods into unhealthy or healthy and they had to explain why they chose that category. 2. Reflection- The kids were really good at knowing sugar, fats, and salt were bad for you. They learned about proteins and carbs. The kids were so good at using the smartboard- they moved the pictures well. The only problem was the top row of pictures was too high for first graders to reach so I had to move that row down for them.
 * Nora Kehoe...Guidance** [|Healthy and Unhealthy Foods.notebook]

1. Lesson Summary- I used this as an alternative to reading about the 3 Branches of the Government out of the SS Book. Following this notebook lesson I used a Branches of the Government Jeopardy Game (also smart board) that I found to review the concepts. 2. Reflection- This went really well. The kids were more focused then reading straight from the text, since they wanted to be called on to go up front. There are a couple things I want to tweak before using next year- I will break the lesson between local/state and federal government for one, I want to also add more interactivity.
 * Denise Busch...Branches of the Government [[file:Branches of the Government.notebook]]**


 * Renee Fisher**... **Math, Science**
 * Lessons: Math:** I have used the site set up by someone in the Allentown School District during math time. The website is: http://www.allentownsd.org/EETT/secondgrade.htm. Once you get there, you can go to other grade levels. It feature LOTS of games that the kids can use labeled by the different strands of math. One particular game we like is D'Numba. The game gives you a number to make, and you use as many different tiles as you need to make the number. The trick is to keep the tiles from reaching the top. I used the SMARTboard as a station to during our math time.
 * Reflection**-The kids LOVE this! I really like having so many games for the kids to play at one site. We did have to talk a bit about getting back to the Allentown site, if it leads you to a new site, such as: AAA math, or Dositey,com. We had to monitor turns the first couple of times, giving others turns while I was teaching a different small group, but eventually it worked itself out. It does take time to find games that students can use in groups as opposed to one, so that there are more chances for students to take turns using the SMARTboard during our rotations.
 * Lessons: Science:** This year, I used the SMARTboard notebook to help students look at the properties of the soils we are studying and how to use those properities to help them figure out what other soils are made of. We made lists of the properties and saved them to look at later. Instead of using the whiteboard, I was able to save what students had said, we could go back and review whether that property was accurate.
 * Reflection**-Being able to save and edit our ideas helped us focus our list on properties of the soils we were studying. It gave students a chance to practice the idea of having evidence to prove something. It worked a lot better than writing and re-writing on the whiteboard. In the future, I think getting the pages of our science journal scanned on and then being able to work through them as a big group could help student improve their recording skills during their experiments. This is an area I still see lacking in our scientific writing.

1. Lesson Summary: My kindergarten reading groups are working on beginning letter sounds. On SMART Exchange I found this Alphabet Picture Sorting activity. The SMARTBoard notebook goes through each letter of the alphabet, with one letter and several pictures on each slide. The students are to drag the pictures into the barrel that begins with the corresponding letter. 2. Reflection: The students love it! We had to take turns which was difficult, but the students understood the concept and how to do the activity.
 * Melissa Thomas - Title 1 - Kindergarten Reading [[file:alphabet picture sorting.notebook]]**