SMART Board Goodies A Resource Blog by Amber Coggin 

Happy Friday! I want to share another site with you in honor of President’s Day. Discover George Washington provides an interactive timeline of George Washington’s life. The timeline includes videos, images, and even battle maps! You can narrow down the timeline events by choosing a category from the drop down menu (e.g. family life, slave owner). This is a really cool way to learn about George Washington! Enjoy!

Tomorrow some of our 5th grade classes will be participating in a virtual field trip called “Exploring Mount Vernon” provided by Alabama Public Television. While trying to find companion sites, I ran across George Washington’s World for Kids. This is a neat site that offers three interactive games, as well as a memory and puzzle activity. Just in time for President’s Day, too!

Thinking Blocks is a website that instructs students and models for them how to solve word problems using interactive manipulatives. There are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division word problems (found in the Try It section).  There are also instructional videos that models how to solve the word problems (found in the Model It section). This site would be great to use whole group on the SMART Board! Enjoy!

Check out the Molecularium Kid Site for learning about atoms, molecules, solids, liquids, gases, and more! The Nanolab section contains 3 interactives that include  Build, Zoom, and Transform activities. Your students will love the groovy music, too. Did I say groovy?

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