A show of hands is a great site to use when teaching students the students graphing. There are several different questions that can be used to poll the classroom on your SMART board. The results are put into a bar graph, pie chart, and pictograph. You could easily use Notebook's transparent background to overlay different questions.
Fraction Spinner is a wonderful tool to use when you start teaching fractions. The spinner reveals a fraction and the questions specify what a student should do based on what the fraction is - for instance, "stand up if it's a whole number," "put your hand up if it can be simplified," "hum if it is an improper fraction." What a great way to incorporate multiple intelligences. A great idea would be to borrow these types of questions to other content that you use in notebook software.
Probability Line is a tool that can be used to evoke discussion in cooperative groups. Each group can decide how they would rank the items listed (snow in London, seeing a UFO, rolling the die and getting a number bigger than 3 etc.) from most likely to least likely. They can then take turns moving them in their order on the board. The nice part is that there is no wrong or right answer and they can click on save and see how the majority of people who have done the activity believe they should be ranked. A great discussion piece and a nice segue into ranking content material items that they are currently learning.
These are very cool! Thanks! I like the fraction spinner a lot!
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