Globetrotting With A SMART Board

Travel the globe with your SMART Board.

One of the greatest benefits of using a SMART Board interactive whiteboard is that it literally makes a bunch of resources available at your finger tips.

The internet has now opened up a whole world by allowing you and your students to access satelite imagery to view almost every corner of our planet.

Think back to the start of this year when the tragedy of the Tsunamis hit Indonesia. Using Google Maps or Keyhole.com, your class could view live satelite images. An exercise like this helps to put some scale to the event, lets your students realise how close to Australia this was happening and is a good introduction into studying natural forces such as tidal waves, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoe eruptions.

When I think back to my childhood I can't decide which subject I found more exciting Dinosaurs or Volcanoes.

A couple of other sites that you can have some fun exploring, wether it be for use in the classroom or to take screencaptures for use in your SMART Notebook files (or maybe just to waste some time) are http://www.googlesightseeing.com/ a blog put together by a group of people as a collection of popular tourist attraction in North America.

Or have a look at http://c2c6.earthinsite.com/city2see/index.htm, this site will let you look at your own backyard.

Have a SMARTer day,

Jeremy