SMART Board Goodies A Resource Blog by Amber Coggin 

The Bug Investigators is teaching resource for young students. There are online games, printable projects and links- all about bugs! Check out their new and improved site The e-Bug Platform for more, including the e-Bug Junior Game.

I’ve blogged about Spark Island before, but I wanted to share with you again the free interactives available. Spin to Win is my favorite! This game helps students learn prefixes and suffixes while also having fun! This game works great on the SMART Board. Check it out!

It’s Friday! But wait, it’s Friday the 13th. Oh, who cares, it’s my birthday! Ok, now that that’s out of the way, one of my third grade teachers asked for some plant activities for the SMART Board, hence yesterday and today’s posts. There are two I’d like to share with you today. First is Growing Plants with Sparky (K-2) (pictured below). Included here are drag-and-drop activities for labeling a plant, helping seeds grow, ordering a plant life cycle, and matching plants to their shadows. Second is The Life Cycle of Plants (3-5). This is a very thorough interactive in that it gives information about seed growth, parts of a flower, seed dispersal, and plant identification. Included are simulations, a drag-and-drop activity, and downloadable worksheets to go along with the lesson.

To see all my posts about plants, click here.

Plant Hunters is a super cool interactive from The New York Botanical Garden that takes students on a journey through a Conservatory while learning about plants found in different biomes. From the site:

“Travel through a world of plants in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at The New York Botanical Garden. Discover 66 plants from around the globe that all live in the very same building. Each “house” of the Conservatory features a different biome, perfectly designed for the plants that grow there. You may be a Beginning Botanist now, but you can become a Professional Plant Hunter after you try out the seven different Plant Challenges.”

Check it out!