Free Interactive Whiteboard Resources

Interactive whiteboard resources (IWBs) are superb way for teachers to engage learners in a classroom setting. They provide teachers with necessary tools to help them study about and uses of interactive whiteboard resources with learners in a classroom. These tools are cost friendly hence they widely promote use of and advancement of technology in classrooms.  IWBs provide various activities and resources that encourage learning. These IWBs resources are:

• TopMarks : This is an educational site that provides interactive whiteboard activities and lesson plans. This site also has educational sites for classrooms, teacher resources and homework help.
• EduScapes: This is a guide for beginner teachers who are just beginning to use interactive whiteboard technology in classroom.  The interactive whiteboard give an explanation on various activities and resources that can be used with IWBs.
• TeacherLED: This is a site that is meant to make use of IWBs easier and more fruitful. This site has resources to use with IWBs in geometry, mathematics and English.
• SMART: This is an IWB site that provides many lesson plans and activities for teachers to use in the classroom.  There are SMART lessons for different ages and for various subjects.
• Interactive Whiteboard in the classroom: this is a site for whiteboard users that provides interactive websites, tutorials and softwares.
• Promethean planet teaching resources: this is a site where members of a community are invited to share their lessons and activities for their whiteboards.
• Mimio connect lesson plans: a Mimio system helps learners to find lessons by searching key words, choosing preferred subject or sorting by grade.

Interactive whiteboard games and activities

• Mathframe.co.uk: this site is composed of several interactive math games designed specifically for interactive whiteboards. All activities are purposed to reinforce mathematical skills and concepts.
• Crickwebco.uk: it features math activities that are designed to teach basics of math to elementary students. It consists of 15 free resources for use with interactive whiteboards.
• Scholarstic: this is a site that gives interactive whiteboard lessons for phonics, math, science and history. The site has a search engine to help find more lessons across North America.
• PBS: this site has games that are age appropriate and screened by educators. It provides a collection of fun, interactive SMART board games.
• Funbrain: funbrain offers games that cover a range of topics and grades. These are interactive games for use with IWBs.
• Kerpoof: it is an educational interactive website meant for children to create, discover and learn; from the Walt Disney Company; that can be used with IWBs.
• Skeleton of the beast: it is an interactive game which is a useful tool for learning IWBs from Discovery Education Skeleton of the Beast. It helps in teaching children about the pre-historic animals through a four skill level timed games.
• Periodic table: it is an educational site for interactive periodic table that is designed to be by both elementary and high school students. The site collaborates with interactive whiteboard to introduce and engage students in learning the elements of the periodic table.
• Xpeditions: the educational site provides an Atlas that can be used on interactive whiteboards. The atlas covers every region of the world.

The Interactive whiteboard resources and activities help both teachers and students explore and understand various subjects in detail and make learning fun.

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