Getting to Know your Place Values on Interactive Whiteboards

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1) Dinosaurs Place Value
Grades: 1-2
Summary:  Here's another great game from ictgames.com.  Students much choose numbers in the tens and ones digit to create the number that the dinosaurs wants. 


How to Integrate: Modeled, Shared
Who doesn't love dinosaurs? The best part of this game is that students will start to recongize that 2 digit number consists of tens and ones.



2) Partitioning Numbers
Grades: 2-4
Summary: ictgames.com has a fast and easy game to get students thinking place values.  Students are given three choices to represent the model on the right. Start with counting the blocks and move towards knowing that each row represents 10 blocks.

How to Integrate: Modeled, Shared
It's a short activity that might not last for a full lab period but a great interactive whiteboard lesson.  Have kids come up one at a time to count the blocks.



3) Base ten blocks
Grades: 1-3
Summary: Lessonbox has a great games to start students on the idea of base-ten blocks.  Students must match the number by moving the base-ten blocks into the box.  The number line on the bottom really helps show the relationship between the ten blocks and the value of the number.  You can choose from two digit to three digit numbers.

How to Integrate: Modeled, Shared and Independent
I would introduce the idea of base-ten blocks with this game. Students can see the number move on the number line as you add more blocks.


4) Numbers to 1000
Grades: 3-5
Summary: hbschool.com has a great site to get students to familiarize with reading, and representing whole numbers up to 1000.  

How to Integrate:  Modeled, Shared and Independent
A great start or end any lesson.  Students can practice their place value and recongize what the numbers look like.



5) Who Wants To Be A Place Value Master
Grades: 3-6
Summary:  Based on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", students much identify which numeral value is asked from the word representation.  It goes all the way up to thousandths.

How to Integrate: Modeled, Shared, Independent
Why not split the class into teams and play this game as a review. 

4 Animals Classification Sites to use on any Interactive Whiteboard

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1) Animal Groups
Grades: 2, 6(review for diversity of living things)

Summary:  Ever wanted to find a good text to read as a class?  This great site goes through all the important characteristics of each animal group,

How to use it: Shared
This would make a great shared reading piece during literacy.  It is also a great review before the test.


2) Animal Characteristic Game
Grades: 2, 6

Summary: Drag and drop all the characteristics that apply to that animal. Great for any interactive board.

How to use it: Modeled, Shared
Now that you have read all the characteristics of each animal group why not show your understanding with a drag-and-drop game.  It's a great check-for-understanding game as well as a review before a test. It wouldn't take too long to complete and thus not that good as an independent lab work game.



3) Interactive Life Cycle
Grades: 2

Summary: Comparing the life cycle of the frog to the butterfly by clicking through each stages. At the end students can put in order the life cycle.

How to use it: Modeled, Shared, Independent
This is another great shared reading site, it has a nice follow-up activity after wards to allow students to show their knowledge.


4) Magnetic Fridge Poetry
Grades: 2-4

Summary: Create poems just like on the fridge. Words are based on animals. Great for any interactive board.

How to use it: Shared, Independent
Makes a great literacy center or a center when students are finished their work.

Parts of Speech - Top Interactive Whiteboard Sites

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1) Ice Cream Talk
Grades 1-2

Summary: Help the monkey collect 10 scoops of ice cream before the monster by finding the noun and/or verb in the sentence.

How to Integrate: Modeled/Shared/Independent
This game is great by Softschools.com to modeled on any interactive white board.  Why not make a game of it and have the students come up one by one to check for their understanding?  Or use it at the beginning of a lesson as a warm up.


2) Grammar Ninija
Grades: 1-4

Summary: Similar to Ice Cream Talk, students can choose their own difficulty ranging from beginners to experts.   It covers almost all parts of speech from adverbs to nouns and verbs.

How to Integrate: Modeled/Shared/Independent
I personally love to use this as a diagnostic with my class.  I can quickly assess who remember what is a noun, verb and adverb etc.  It's great fun for the kids and who doesn't love ninjas? 

3) Balloon Verb
Grades: 1-2

Summary:  Much like the other two games but it adds a change of scenery.  Students must pop the balloon that corresponds with the part of speech they are asked to find.

How to Integrate: Modeled/Shared/Independent
This is another great site I love to use on the interactive whiteboard because it's fast an easy.  Especially in a Primary setting - all students can have a turn trying to pop a balloon.

4) Conjunction popper
Grades: 3-6
Summary:  This game by BBC is designed for students to recognize different conjunctions and hte context in which to use them.  Students must try pop the balloon that has the most appropriate conjunction that would fit in the sentence.  Each time the students answers the question a pop-up will come up to explain why it is right or wrong.

How to Integrate: Modeled/Shared/Independent
I love using games by the BBC because it provides background information on lessons.  You can choose to complete the lesson together as a shared reading task or you can just play the game.  The most important part is to read the pop-ups together as a class and discuss why something is right or wrong.


6) Noun Dunk
Grades: 4-6

Summary: From Harcourt School Publishers comes a great game for students that combines basketball with nouns! Students will be given a word where they must decide whether it's a common noun or a proper noun.  If they choose correctly they get a basket.

How to Integrate: Modeled/Shared/Independent
This is a site I go use constantly when try to teach students the difference between common nouns and proper nouns. It's a great check for understanding as well as a refresher. Great for boys!

Money Talks

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Here are 4 sites that I find helpful when teaching about money.  Some make great hooks for lessons while others teach students how to be money smart.  Enjoy!

1) Design Your Own Bill
Grades: K-2

Summary:  A great hook for the money unit!  Have you students design their own currency with a few clicks of the mouse.  You can change the avatar on the bill to match the student's own face or just make silly designs.  The possibilities are endless.

How to use it: Shared and Independent - why not have your students create their own and share it with the class. A great intro to why money looks the way it does.