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!

Happy Valentine’s Day and Congratulations to Arielle for winning the 1-year StarrMatica Classroom Subscription! You will be contacted soon with details regarding your subscription. I would like to thank all of my readers and those who entered the contest, as well as a HUGE thanks to Emily at StarrMatica for offering this wonderful product!

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On this wonderful Friday I’d like to share something fun with you! It’s a Facebook Page Template for SMART Notebook! I’ve seen the idea before around Twitter and on this blog, but I’ve never seen a template using SMART Notebook. So I decided to make one! Your students can create a Facebook page on a famous person, an artist, an inventor, or a character in a book or movie! Every year our 4th grade students do a project on a famous Alabamian. They normally complete a project using PowerPoint or Publisher, but this year I hope to use this template. I have a feeling they are going to LOVE it! This template can also be used to teach students how to safely use Facebook or just about the “purpose” of Facebook (without being blocked by your school filter!). I tried to make this template as simple as possible, so students should only edit the photos and the text in black. I’ll be adding my project guidelines once I complete them, so more details are to come. Download it now. Enjoy!

Update: I’ve included a worksheet to be used in conjunction with this activity. Please download the updated version to access the worksheet. You will find it in the Attachments Tab of the SMART Notebook file.