National Geographic Photo Jigsaw Puzzles

I noticed this on a past post in the FREE TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHERS blog.

National Geographic has a daily user-generated photo gallery called the Your Shot Daily Dozen. The Daily Dozen is similar to the BBC's Day in Pictures series. The Daily Dozen contains user-submitted pictures from around the world.

National Geographic has two activities that students can use based on the Daily Dozen pictures, a jigsaw puzzle and a memory game. These activities could be a fun way for students to develop memory skills, matching skills, and puzzle solving skills.

Images could be used as conversation starters in current events courses, environmental science classes, or photography classes. The images could also be used as story starters for a creative writing class.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/your-shot

#52 of 365 - ClassTools.net

A fantastic way of building cutting-edge technology into the curriculum!

ClassTools.net is a FREE website allowing teachers and students to create interactive Flash diagrams for learning and revising material.

Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash!

These are templates similiar to the Lesson Activity Toolkit. This website has many samples posted for inspiration.

Using the Virtual Book template, your students can make their own interactive books very easily and share them on the SMART Board. Click on the page and it turns.

Click here for full screen version

#51 of 365

Digital Nation has a demo of four model lessons for the interactive whiteboard.

Included are:

Grades K-2: Parts of Speech Nouns
Grades 3-5: Creating Bar Graphs
Grades 6-8: Transitional Words
Grades 9-12: Parallel Lines

http://www.4aplus.com/dn-demo/whiteboard.html

#50 of 365 - SMART Board Links

One of our local teachers maintains a wiki that encourages sharing of SMART Board resources. Check it out!

SMART Board Sharing:
We are developing SMART Board sharing pages so we can collaborate with each other. Go to the page below to add, or download lessons.

http://djainslietech.wikispaces.com/SMARTboard+Lessons

#49 of 365 - SOLAR SYSTEM JIGSAW

Build the Solar System, from planets to space probes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/playspace/games/jigsaw/jigsaw.shtml

#48 of 365 - Slideshare presentation

10 Great Websites For the SMART Board

View more presentations from Heather Hurley.

#47 of 365 - Interactive Sites

HUGE list of Interactive sites -- check them out!

http://www.globalclassroom.org/ecell00/javamath.html