Photo by Doug Pizac

Some Teaching Ideas for the SMART Board™

• Handwriting practice with gallery lined pages
• Word Sorts
• YPP (practice exercises as a class)
• Math using manipulatives from gallery
• Pre-teach technology skills prior to lab time
• Check and chart daily moon phases
• Interactive Websites
• Reading strategies with short/long vowels, digraph, blends and chunking
• Presentations
• Brainstorming
• CD ROM activities as a whole class
• Vocabulary practice
• DVD clips
• Current events—news articles and clips