SMART Board Goodies A Resource Blog by Amber Coggin 

What a fabulous site to learn about butterflies! There are several quiz activities, a field observation activity where you identify the parts of a butterfly, and a section where you can also build your own butterfly habitat! This would be a great extension to a lesson on butterfly life cycles. Enjoy!

Hams Hall Pond is a wonderful interactive site for teaching students about life cycles, food chains, and the variation and classification of living things in their environments. See a virtual pond and learn about its inhabitants, complete drag and drop activities on the life cycle of a frog or butterfly, and more. 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.

The Barnaby and Belinda Bear site is a nice interactive website for young children that covers several topics including geography, map skills, life cycles, and more. This site works great on the SMART Board and would be perfect for a Pre-school or Kindergarten classroom. Make sure you visit the teacher section as well. Check it out!