Interactive whiteboard

Smart Notebook activity, overhead transparency or other on-screen resource.

The Average Briton is an interactive whiteboard cloze activity originally aimed at L1-2 ‘English at Work’ ESOL students but also great for literacy and numeracy students and ideal for prompting discussion about place value, British society, and much more!

Please note you must have the Smart notebook software installed on your computer in order to open, view and use this resource http://smarttech.com/

Level
Level 2
Level 1
English
General literacy / English
Maths
Place value and counting
General numeracy / maths
ESOL
General ESOL
Context
Employment skills & Public services

An interactive whiteboard problem solving activity suitable for many levels. Makes a fun starter activity and provides a good link between shape and space and algebra. Can also used as a hands on activity for all (rather than just volunteers at the smartboard) using pencil and squared paper, plastic squares or wooden/plastic cubes.
Adult numeracy element links are difficult to classify but include:

Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Maths
MSS2/E3.1
MSS2/L1.2
N1/E1.8
AN N1/L1.11

An interactive whiteboard guide that covers traditional long and short division, and division by repeated subtraction – complete with nifty features such as pull away screens (revealing practice questions), etc.
Please note you must have the Smart notebook software installed on your computer in order to open, view and use this resource http://smarttech.com/

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Maths
N1/E3.6
AN N1/L1.3

An interactive whiteboard guide that covers traditional. grid, lattice and Egyptian multiplication – complete with nifty features such as pull away screens (revealing practice questions), etc.
Please note you must have the Smart notebook software installed on your computer in order to open, view and use this resource http://smarttech.com/

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Maths
AN N1/L1.3

An interactive whiteboard guide to a very useful method of subtraction – complete with nifty features such as pull away screens (revealing practice questions), etc.
Please note you must have the Smart notebook software installed on your computer in order to open, view and use this resource http://smarttech.com/

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Maths
AN N1/E3.2
AN N1/L1.3

An interactive whiteboard guide to a very useful method of addition – complete with nifty features such as pull away screens (revealing practice questions), etc.
Please note you must have the Smart notebook software installed on your computer in order to open, view and use this resource http://smarttech.com/

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Maths
AN N1/E3.2
AN N1/L1.3

Fabulous word and number cloud activities for E1 (maths words), E2 (odd even nos. and 2D shapes) and E3 (recognise, sort and and order metric measures). With instructions, extension ideas and answer sheets. Ideal for display (and annotation) on a smartboard.
Wordle is a brilliant on-line, completely free word cloud creator.
See our blog articles for more Wordle teaching and learning ideas:

Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Maths
MSS1/E2.5
MSS1/E2.6
MSS1/E2.7
MSS1/E3.5
MSS1/E3.6
MSS1/E3.7
MSS2/E2.1
AN N1/E1.4
AN N1/E1.5
N1/E2.5
N1/E3.6
AN N1/E2.2 Read, write, order & compare numbers to 100; odd even nos.
AN N1/E3.1 place value <1000, odd / even, count in 10s /100s

Aron Ralston smartboard resources for Entry 1-Entry. Fabulous lesson plan and resources on the fascinating story of an American rock climber who sawed off his arm with a penknife in order to free himself from a rock fall and get some help. Includes interactive cloze exercises, photographs, lesson plan/objectives, syllable match, word sort and more.

An accompanying Word file (see below) includes an illustrated writing frame and differentiated word cards for word and sentence level work.

Level
Entry Level 3
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 1
English
General literacy / English

Titanic smartboard resources for Entry 1-Entry. Covers discussion, reading comprehension, phonics and writing composition. Great lesson plan and resources on this popular topic. Includes interactive cloze exercises, phonics/syllable exercise, ‘See, hear feel’ brainstorm, photographs, lesson plan/objectives, and more.

An accompanying Word file (see below) includes an illustrated writing frame and differentiated word cards for word and sentence level work.

Level
Entry Level 3
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
English
General literacy / English

Adding punctuation is a large print exercise (capital letters and full stops) that would also make a great group exercise if displayed on a whiteboard or smartboard.

Level
Entry Level 3
English
Ws/E3.4