The SMART Spot

Now you can bookmark websites online so that you can access them from any computer at home or at school.  Even better--you can share your links with other teachers, students, and friends.  Check out my delicious bookmarking site, and let me know if you'd like to create your own (or maybe a grade level site)!  It's easy and really helpful!

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The BBC School website contains a ton of useful, interactive modules for classroom use.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/

On the BBC website, you can find short, but useful, learning activities in math, PE, language arts, science, music, art, and more.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revision/

This site has some great interactive lessons for math, science, music, art, and more.  The activities often include anticipatory sets, instruction, and assessment activities.

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/eng/index-new.htm

If you haven’t been to this site before, it’s a winner.  You can find many helpful online math manipulatives for grades K-12 in all areas of math.

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

A UK-based site that offers many, many interactive tools to help students better understand math, language arts, science, history, and more.  Because this site is geared for British students, you’ll need to use this conversion scale to find resources useful for your students:

·         Early Years/Foundation Stage for 4 to 5 year olds. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

·         Key Stage 1 for 6 to 7 year olds.
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Key-Stage-1.html

·         Key Stage 2 for 8 to 11 year olds.
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Key-Stage-2.html

This NCTM-created math site provides interactive activity lessons for grades K-12.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx

Another British site filled with resources for the interactive whiteboard.  Many of these lesson resources include starter/motivation activities, multi-part main instruction, and concluding activities.  Don’t forget to use the UK-conversion chart listed under the Crickweb description.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx 

Project InterActivate provides math-based interactive tools, lessons, and activities for students in 3rd grade and up.  You can search resources by type, topic, audience, and more.

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/

It’s yet another great British site.  You can find interactive resources for most subjects.  Use this conversion scale to find resources appropriate for your students:

·         Foundation is for 4 to 5 year olds: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/4.cfm  

·         Primary: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/7.cfm

o    Key Stage 1 is for 6 to 7 year olds.

o    Key Stage 2 is for 8 to 11 year olds.

·         Secondary: Key Stages 3 & 4 is for 12 year olds and up