TEMPLATES

[|CENTER SCHOOL DISTRICT] A host of templates for teachers in all grades K-12. Wow, what an awesome site!!

[|TEACHERS FIRST] TeachersFirst.com is a website with a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, an dad-free format. They offer their professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using their subject/grade level search, keyword search, or extensive menus.

[|SMART Board Activities] Teachers in Winnipeg School Division are using interactive whiteboards with their students to foster learning and understanding in all curricula areas. They are seeing first hand its appeal to the variety of learning styles in their classrooms. To date there are 351 SMART Board activities and templates provided.

[|Samurai Sudoku] **Samurai sudoku** puzzles consist of five overlapping sudoku grids. The standard sudoku rules apply to each 9 x 9 grid. Place digits from 1 to 9 in each empty cell. Every row, every column, and every 3 x 3 box should contain one of each digit. The puzzles are changed daily and answers are provided.

[|Gaming Templates] Visit this fantastic website to create your own Jeopardy games, Sudoku puzzle, Wheel of Fortune and other familiar games. An excellent way to introduce a new concept or as a review for an exam.

[|Wordle] Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

[|Teachers Love SMART Boards] This site is fantastic. An educational consultant from Chicago has taken professional development to a new level creating a blog that assists his teachers in developing their creativity and knowledge about SMART Boards. If there is only one site that you visit make sure that it is this one!

[|National Library of Virtual Manipulatives] : This is a website that provides interactive activites for all grades that can even be used on the smartboard!!!!

[|Interactive Internet Resources] Interactive sites for SMART Board use with special emphasis on Science, Math, Social Studies and Communication Arts.

[|ToonDoo] - Another Web 2.0 tool to explore! Teachers and students can easily create one-, two,or three-page cartoons. There is a library of ready-made clip art to use, or you can upload your own graphics or pictures. Once cartoon pages are put together, they can be made into a ToonBook with up to 100 pages.

Smartboard in the Classroom Everything you ever wanted to know about Smartboards and more! Great tutorials too!