After having a SMART Board in your classroom for a couple of years, you are probably familiar with many of the things you can do with the SMART Board and Notebook software. The next level of SMART Board use is to focus on how your subject area can be enhanced by using the SMART Board.
While there are many things you can do if you are interested in creating your own work, there are many sources of pre-made Notebook lesson activities. For example, a great source of SMART Notebook lessons in math can be found at Harvey’s Homepage.
Harvey Almarode is a retired math curriculum supervisor who now works at James Madison University in their education department. He seems to spend most of his time creating SMART Notebook lesson activities for math teachers. It’s probably the most valuable math resource for SMART Boards in existence.
If you’re an elementary teacher, you might want to check out the Number Sense area, or if you are at the middle school, you may be interested in the Patterns, Algebra, and Functions area.
Something to look forward to? How about SMART Notebook Math Tools? This is a software plug-in for Notebook that adds a secondary toolbar which gives you access to an equation editor, math ink recognition, math actions (automatic simplification of terms and graphing!), irregular polygon creator, and MUCH MORE! Holy cow, if you are a math teacher and are wondering how to add afterburners to your SMART Board, this is it!