Group items tagged

"The site allows the teacher or student to control how they are viewing the solar system. Users can touch and drag to move things around and they have a complete set of controls to change scale, speed of orbits (passing of time), or planetary object to follow. For example, if you follow the Sun, the Sun is stationary and it shows the other planets orbiting the Sun. If you follow the Earth, then it shows the other planetary objects with a stationary Earth." (from Teachers Love SMartboards)

"Livebrush is a drawing application. It employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gesture. By combining simple motion controls with brush styles, Livebrush offers a fun and unique way to create graphics."

This activity allows pupils to investigate simple circuits by dragging circuit components into place to make a working circuit. The activities form an introduction to practical work exploring circuits. Pupils have the opportunity to experiment with switches to control components in order to find out that a circuit will not work if there is a break in it.

"In an effort to keep things grounded and only launch those planned missions, I have been searching some sites on Smart Board tips and have found a few things I am going to try out:"

"Hot Stuff: Volcanoes" showcases the richness and customizability possible when producing content in a vendor-neutral formatóin this case via Flash. The two activities within this lesson are specifically designed to facilitate both teacher control and student interaction.

site for sharing education ideas around Scratch program from MIT