First Grade Jeopardy Powerpoint
I received a jeopardy template at my school's professional development at the beginning of the school year. I altered it for first grade. Included in the game are first grade level questions for reading, math, science, and social studies. This powerpoint can be used as a Jeopardy template and is really easy to change. My first graders love playing this game. The powerpoint even has the Jeopardy music! One thing that I did have to change to fit first grade was the structure of the questions and answers. On the real game show and the original version I recieved, the questions were stated as a statement, and answers posed as a question. This is very confusing for first graders and primary aged students. So I changed the format so that the questions are posed as questions and students answer using a complete sentence/statement.
First Grade Jeopardy.ppt
-Kamala Johnson
Creating Resources
I know the Smart Boards come with a lot of cool programs and resources. My Panaboard on the other hand does not. I have been creating my own resources though since I do not have the great calendar applications that Smart Boards can come with. I have been using google to find images and then saving them to my computer to use on the Panaboard. Some ideas are a hundreds chart, monthly calendar, days of the week charts, and months of the week charts. My students enjoy doing calendar daily on the whiteboard with these documents to view and write on.
April Calendar.notebook
- Laura Corrigan
Envision Math Resources
In an earlier post I mentioned that the RSD website allows access to all of the math documents used with Envision Math. Another cool resource I have been using in my classroom is the Envision Math Cd for math quizzes. This math game is great for review before math tests or for individual student practice. It can be played on the panaboard for all students to compete. My students love it! The only thing is that the cd needs administrator approval to use on our school computers. Just call tech support, and someone can come and install it once so you can use it whenever you would like. Enjoy!
Laura Corrigan
Back to School Night Powerpoint
During Back to School Night I wanted to keep all parents and students engaged, while also demonstrating the new Panaboard that their students would be using in my classroom. This powerpoint can be modified for your Back to School or 301 Night Literacy Night Back to School Night_JFK.ppt
I found that this powerpoint was helpful, yet I know that it would have been much more helpful if each slide were also translated to Spanish. Although I was able to verbally translate during the presentation, having done so in the powerpoint would have shown my Spanish speaking parents that I truly wanted them to be engaged and part of the presentation.
- John E. Cardenas
Author's Purpose
Here are some passages I found that are 6th grade level. If you can only make a limited number of copies, it can be annoying to waste those papers on one worksheet. So, I find I can put my worksheet up on the panaboard and it saves paper. These passages can be used to determine author's purpose: to entertain, to inform, to persuade, or to express; or to find point of view: first person, second person, third person limited, third person objective, third person omniscient. They are all short excerpts from books, and they are similar to passages that would be found on AIMs or 4Sight.
Diana Ward
Smartboard for Panaboard (Brian Ricker)
A cool resource I received for Panaboards is found on the Smartboard website. It is a document viewer that allows you to use and view Smartboard created resources on your Panaboard. This way you can use all of the Smartboard resources they have created on your Panaboard. Smartboard has a ton of resources since they've been around so long. The only drawback to the reader is that you cannot edit any of the documents. If you download a Smartboard lesson for example, you have to use it exactly as it was created, unless you decide to pay to download the Smartboard software completely. The website is: http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Board+software/NotebookIV.htm
Smartboard for Panaboard
Brian that is a really great resource you suggested. Thank you! There is one really fun program for Smartboards that I used and my students really enjoyed. There is a "puzzle piece" program where I can type in words for a sentence. The program puts all of the words on a different puzzle piece and then the students need to put the words back in the correct order to make the puzzle pieces fit. You can also do one for spaces and punctuation. My students and I find this educational activity very entertaining.
-Laura Corrigan
Enjoy.
Hey I have a question about this. I've used the Smartboard document viewer that you described. I used some Smartboard powerpoints with my class but found that we couldn't manipulate anything within the powerpoint. For example, the powerpoint was designed to have you click on specific objects that matched a category. If you were correct, it was supposed to tell you and so on. We couldn't get this to work. Is there a way to do this?
- T.J. Lovejoy
T.J. has this happened multiple times? Maybe try downloading the viewer again. Every time that I've tried it I've been able to do everything the ppt was supposed to do, just couldn't edit it or make changes.
Brian
How to access useful and fun activities on the Panaboard (Amanda Drucker)
1. Open the “RM Easiteach” software that was installed on your computer.
2. Click “register later” if it asks you to register.
3. Click “File” in the bottom left-hand corner.
4. Click “Open” and then “Starter Pack.”
5. You will then see options to browse the resources by grade, subject, or resource type.
6. For a game that the students will love and that will help them learn their math facts to automaticity, click the Math subject heading.
7. Click the “Trapdoor” option.
8. Pick any time limit.
9. Choose the type of math facts you want your students to practice. (My 3rd graders do the “Multiplication tables” option.)
10. Split students into 2 teams and give the stylus to the team that will have the first turn.
11. Click “Start game” and have your students race to solve the math problems!
How to Access EnvisionMath on Panaboard from RSD Website
Those are both really great tips! I know The Smartboards have better technology and software than the panaboards so it is great to know we can still take advantage of it. For those of us in RSD, the technology department has posted all of our math cirriculum online so we can use it on our panaboard, which has completely changed the whole way I teach math. All math worksheets, games, and tests for our cirriculum can be opened on the panaboard. To access EnVision Math:
Go to the rsd home page and click on the link "Our Distict"
Click on "Cirriculum Department"
Select "Instructional Resources"
Open up the cirriculum you would like to use. StoryTown is also on there.
Or use the following website: https://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/snpapp/login/login.jsp
Hope this helps!
- Laura Corrigan
Question - How To Erase Old Writing?
I have a question hopefully someone can help me with. I have not yet been trained on my Panaboard, and I am sure this is an easy fix. When I am writing on a document, such as a math worksheet, and then open up another document later, I have to click on the pen to write. When I click on the pen, the writing I did on the last document always pops up on the new document. Then my students and I laugh as I have to erase the old writing. This is really starting to get annoying. Does anyone know if there is a special button to click before I close documents so the writing goes away? Thanks!
- Laura Corrigan
How to Erase Old Writing
Laura,
I am assuming that you are talking about using the "elite panaboard draw" toolbar that you can use on any document on your computer, and not the easiteach program. So on the panaboard toolbar, there are two columns of buttons. In order to erase all drawings you made without using the eraser, click on the 5th button from the bottom, in the right hand column. It looks like a picture of a blue window.
Hope this helps,
Katherine LaTores
SUCCESS FOR ALL Powerpoints
At my school, we are required to teach from the Success For All reading program. Like all scripted curriculums, it can get dry at times. When my smart board was installed in my classroom this year, I decided to create powerpoint slides to walk the students visually through the teacher's manual -- this way they get to actually see what I am supposed to be reading. This has really helped boost engagement and comprehension during classwide discussions.
If you use SFA at your school, click here to see a powerpoint example.
SFA Manatees Powerpoint
At John F. Kennedy Elementary we are also implementing the Success For All reading program. I currently teach Wings 3.1 level and this is a powerpoint another teacher and I created for the Targeted Treasure Hunt: Manatees.ppt
*It includes all aspects of the Targeted Treasure Hunt except the Adventures in Writing.
-John E. Cardenas
Manatee Video Link
I also found a great video that can be used to get students much more interested in learning about Manatees. This video comes from a website that has all sorts of FREE games and activities that can be used as a whole class on the Panaboard to further explain or invest students in many topics. Specifically the website has links for Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Science, and much more. This video came out of the section called PG TV http://www.primarygames.com/videos/webosaurs/nigel/manatee/index.htm .
-John E. Cardenas
Save the Manatee Website
In addition to the video and powerpoint I was able to find many more useful, insightful, and engaging activities on a website dedicated to helping manatees. On this site you can find cool quizzes that can be taken online (my class got 10 out of 10 on the first quiz on Day 5 of our cycle). On day 4 of the cycle after the students have read about the cow and calf relationship you can use this link to actually have the students listen to a cow and calf manatee talking to each other. My students were amazed by the clearness of the sounds they were making because they were obviously communicating with eachother. Use this link to find a log more "Cool Manatee Stuff!" http://www.savethemanatee.org/coolstuff.htm
-John E. Cardenas
I was inspired by the use of this wiki for our class and created a wiki for my school. It serves as a Resource Exchange for John F. Kennedy Elementary because we are a Success For All school. Since the beginning of this school year teachers at my school have been creating different resources (word documents, powerpoints, easiteach files) and have inconsistently been sharing them with fellow teachers who currently taught, or in the future, would teach the same materials. Now we have a place to share all of our resources and make them available for all SFA teachers at our school. The wiki was presented to my school a few weeks ago, but already has significant contributions. On the wiki there is a Page for Kindercorner, Roots, and Wings level 2.1 through 5.2. You can find the wiki at http://jfksfa.pbworks.com When requesting access, let me know that you are from EDE 531.
- John E. Cardenas
Making Time for Art
This is link to an art website that teaches the students about primary and secondary colors. If your school is like mine and cut the art program, this is a quick, interactive way to keep art alive in school!
Primary and Secondary Colors
- Jacqueline Pugh
Question About CD Programs
I have a question I was hoping someone could help me with. The RSD website has been down so I have not been able to access the Envision Math workbook online to project onto the whiteboard. Instead, I have been using the workbook on a CD. But for some reason when I put the CD in I can only view the pages and not write on them. If I try to write on them with the Panaboard pen it goes through the page and only writes on the desktop. How do I get it to write on the workbook from the CD?
Laura Corrigan
Using Google and You Tube
I have discovered something interesting about the Roosevelt School District server. I have recently taught my students how to use Google images to look up pictures of things we are learning about. Roosevelt School District blocks a lot of sites so I cannot share them with my students on the whiteboard. I learned that if I use Firefox Google images is not blocked by the server, but if I use Windows Explorer it is blocked. Also, You Tube is always blocked by Internet Explorer, but sometimes it works on Firefox. I think You Tube is a great resource for finding informational videos to share with my students, and using Firefox is a great way to sometimes be able to access this resource.
-Laura Corrigan
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