SmartBoard Basics

Quick Reference pages from SMART Technologies
Short one or two page information sheets

SmartBoard and Airliner Activities
Activities from the Witchita Public School District

Smart Resources for Education
Smart Technology's main site for Teacher resources

Teacher's Hub from SMART Technologies
Training and curricular resources from Smart Technologies

Two-minute Tutorials
Videos with helpful information regarding the Smartboard

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Language Arts

Assessment Practice	Lesson Plans/ Internet Resources
Comprehension/ Vocabulary	Poetry
Literature/ Booklists	Writing/ Spelling/ Grammar

Assessment Practice

BrainChild Online Assessment

Comprehension/ Vocabulary

Everyday Vocabulary Anagrams
Reading Comprehension from ProTeacher
Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Literature/ Booklists

2007 Book Awards
California Reading List
Carol Hurst's Book Reviews for 6th Grade
Children's Book Reviews
Choices Booklists: Children's Choices

Lesson Plans/ Internet Resources

English Language Arts WebQuests
Open Court Resources
Learning Strategies Database
Read Write Think
Sponge Games

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Poetry

Alliteration in Headline Poems
Can You Haiku?
Favorite Poem Project
Giggle Poetry
Poetry Page Outta Ray's Head
Poetry Teachers
Simile and Metaphor Lesson

Writing/ spelling/ grammar

Commonly Misspelled Words
Etymologic: the Toughest Game on the Web
Graphic Organizers
Interactive Skill Builders
Language Arts Skills
Step Up To Writing
Writing Prompt Generator
Writing Prompt Generators
Writing Prompts

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Assessments	PDF's
Great Math Sites	Practice Problems
Internet Resources	Standards
Lessons	Word Problems
Manipulatives	Worksheets

Math Assessments

Arlington Central School District Performance Assessment Tasks
Brainchild Online Assessment
CST Released Test Questions
Edusoft

Great Math Sites

Math Games that Motivate and Educate
Math Topics for Grade 6
Math Resources on WCUSD site

Internet Resources

ClassZone from McDougalLittell
Hands-on Math Movies
Illuminations
Math Counts Problem of the Week Archive
Math Skills
Math Teaching Models from Houghton Mifflin
Math Teaching Tools from Houghton Mifflin
Math Topics for Grade 6
McDougal Littell Animations
McDougall Littell Course One
McDougal Littell PowerPoint Presentations

Lessons

Order of Operations
Decimals
Lesson plans

Order of Operations

Order of Operations
Order of Operations PowerPoint
Practice Order of Operations

Decimals

Multiplying Decimals
Multiplying Decimals Practice

Lesson Plans

Algebra Lesson Plans
Fibonacci Numbers and Nature
Identify Fractions
Great Yo-Yo Festival
How to Write a Check
King's Pathway
Menu Math
NCTM Illuminations lessons
PBS Lessons in Functions and Algebra
Power of Two
Practical Money Skills for Life
PreAlgebra Lessons
Pyramid Math
Suzanne's Mathematics Lessons
TanGram Fractions

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Manipulatives

Fraction Bars
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

PDF's

Alternative Algorithms
Big Numbers
Mathematical Terminology
Palindromic 89
Prime Factorization
Rules of Divisibility

Practice Problems

Algebra Flashcards
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
Interactive Skill Builders
Math Vocabulary Practice
Practice Problems for Math
Sample Problems in pdf for each standard
Shodor Interactivate Activities
Solutions to the Sample Problems

Word Problems/ Challenges

Absurd Math
Grade Six Problems
Math Challenge from the White House
Math Idea of the Month
Mystery Operations
Problem Solving from MathCounts
Set Daily Puzzle

Worksheets

Algebra Worksheet Generator
Create a Graph
Elementary Algebra Assignments
Math Fact Sheets
Superkids Math Worksheet Generator

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Ancient Civilizations
Current Events	Lessons

Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Egypt Lesson Plans for Teachers
Ancient Egypt WebQuest
Ancient Greece PowerPoint
Building the Pyramids: No Light Task
Greek Gods and Goddesses
Hieroglyphics
Past to Present: How Ancient Cultures Changed the World
Science of Ancient Egypt

Current Events

ChannelOne.com
Current Events from McDougal Littell
Kids Newsroom
NY Times News Summaries
PBS News

Lessons

Construct an Aqueduct
Interactive Skill Builders
Nova Pyramids
Social Studies Skills
Social Studies Textbook Site
Storm that Drowned a City

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Teacher Resources

Back to School PowerPoint
First Days of Middle School
Get Smarter
MiddleWeb
NetTrekker subscription
TeacherWeb- subscription ($27/year)
Teacher Workshops
Time4Learning- Subscription designed for Homeschoolers ($20/month)

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Science

6th Grade Science Skills- Tennessee standards, but skills are similar
Birth of the Himalaya
Earth Floor
Earth Science Clip Art
Earth Science World
Examine an Landscape Formed by Erosion
Fema for Kids- Hurricanes
Flash Activities form Nova
Glencoe Science
Hurricane Warning
Internet4Classrooms Science Resources
Life has a History
Middle School Science Homework Spot
NSTA Middle School Science
Nova Interactives Earth Science
Prentice Hall Focus on Earth Science
Science Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorial Links
Science Daily News
Science Skills
Science Spot
Smithsonian Science and Technology
US Geological Survey

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Smart Notebook Lessons

Share lessons with colleagues here! Send what you create to mburton@wcusd.org
Lessons from SmartEd Services

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Computer Resources

Fair Use and Copyright

10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained
Citing Electronic Resources
E-mail Etiquette
Evaluating, Selecting and Citing Web Resources
Teacher's Guide to Fair Use and Copyright
Web Research Guide from Class Zone

Clip Art Resources

Awesome Clipart for Educators
Classroom Clipart
Free Foto
Google Image Search
Pics4Learning

Professional Development

Annenberg Teacher's Lab Find the latest trends and the most recent educational research
ERIC- Education Resource Information Center
Online Practice Modules and Tutorials Tutorials for most software and projects you can do on the computer

General Resources

California Thinkfinity Resource Center Links to hundreds of content-specific lessons and activities
Computer Graphic Lesson Plans Computer teacher's lessons
EdSitement from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Edusoft Create instructional tools by standard for intervention or benchmark preparation
Filamentality List your lessons each day and archive favorite places on this site
Grade Level Skills Help
Internet Scavenger Hunts Indexed by months
Middle School Teaching Resources- WCUSD Site
Puzzle Maker Create word search, crossword, maze, cryptogram, and math puzzles
Smart Start worksheet to welcome the start of school
World Almanac for Kids
YourHomework.com Free classroom Web site template

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Daily Links

Daily Almanac
Daily Dose- Language Arts
Daily Dose Mathematics
Daily Dose- Science
Geobee Challenge
Idiom of the Day
Idiom for the Day-PowerPoint
On This Day in History
Today in History from the Library of Congress
TrackStar Track a Day

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