Sometimes you just have to draw, and paint, and erase, and draw some more.
This Blog post has links to 12 free online drawing tools and has nice short annotations. Of these, I have only used Sumopaint and Aviary. I am looking forward to trying some other ones.
I have also had a ton of fun with sketchup on a smartboard.
Today as an extension to creating towers etc with blocks my grade ones and twos worked with google sketch up on both the SMARTboard and stand alone computers- pretty cool
Scroll down through this list to find 150 1-hour long podcasts from two talented Canadian educators, Joan Badger and Ben Hazzard. Listen to do these after shcool or load them on an iPod and take them for a walk. Many lessons contain files for download and immediate use.
Alissa I used the multiplication arrays and it was fantastic for teaching that 9 x 8 could be partitioned into (9 x 4) + (9X4). The kids made connections to partitioning and part-part-whole.
While these stories are not interactive, I listened to White Socks Only and it is a marvelous story which lends itself to predicting and cultural tolerances and racism. What kids don't like to have a story read to them with a different voice than their teacher's. Thanks Jan.
Yes, Alissa the lesson plan that Michelle is referring to is fanatastic and kids of all ages seem to grasp this concept pretty quickly. In fact my 6 year old son intuitively got it before my 10 year old.
Jan showed me this one and it was wonderful. I didn't have to say a word to remind the kids what a prime number - the buzz around the classroom produced the answer.