I love the customizable flash activities that are a part of the Lesson Activity Toolkit. I thought I would give a brief overview of each one and an example of how I might use it. Each activity comes in a variety of colours to suit your mood or theme.
| 1) Vortex – The vortex is a fancy sorting tool – the answers will only go into the correct vortex, and spin out of the incorrect choice. There are both text and image options. |
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| 2) Image Match – match the picture with the correct labels. |
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| 3) Pairs – just like classic memory – works with both text and images, just drag and drop images on to the tiles in the setup. You can change and modify the number of tile pairs. |
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| 4) Category Sort – Drag and drop the words or images into the correct category. Self checking! |
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| 5) Tiles – This application reveals what is behind it, one square at a time. You can select how many squares you want. You can put text, an image, or multiple images behind the tiles. I like it to interrogate a historical picture, breaking down a photo or painting into pieces, then looking at is as a whole. |
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| 6) Word Guess – Very fun! It’s just like hangman, with the choices of soccer, basketball, or my favorite the tomato splat. Choose the letters to try to guess the missing word. Fun vocabulary practice. |
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| 7) Anagram – Rearrange the letters to unscramble the words. It allows for hints, and even hints with a picture to help. |
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| 8 ) Multiple Choice – a simple multiple choice question option. You can add up to 10 questions to the same set. |
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| 9) Image Arrange – put the pictures in order. This one is great for sorting, ordering, or patterns. |
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| 10) Image Select – allows you to import up to 18 images. The images appear in a large box and the students have to select or write in the correct label. |
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| 11) Hot Spot – You place dots in a background based on the instructions in the top red bar. The background can be a grid, human body, map, or other custom image. |
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| 12) Word Biz – Spell out the answer to the question in the box. |
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| 13) Sentence Arrange – drag and drop the sentences (or single words) to put them in order. |
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| 14) Timeline reveal – click on a labelled dot to reveal information. Great for dates on a timeline, but the interval between dots is fixed. With some creativity it can be used for more than just time. |
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WOW! There are a lot more flash-based resources than I thought. I guess I have more to do over the summer. Thanks Jen for sharing!
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I enjoyed your article–very useful information!!
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Good article. I can’t seem to find a link to download the 2.0 version of the Toolkit. Is there a link for this?
Thanks.
I updated by clicking on the wrench symbol next to the search box in the gallery. Check for updates is one of the choices given, and even if it says Lesson Activity Toolkit 1.0, 2.0 is the version it updates to! Good luck.
I will use this site in my trainings.
Hey Jen,
These examples are great. Are these all from the toolkit, or are they ones you have altered/created on your own? Thanks for the awesome postings. Great resources.
All are from the toolkit – but you have to update to the Lesson Activity Toolkit 2.0.
Hi. Nice explanation of the new activities in LAT 2. What I want to know is the following? Is there a database available to use search words to find items in the Galery? Example: type apple in the search and the result will be pics, etc. BUT is there such a database available to share with teachers rather them struggling and not knowing what to search for?
My email address is added, PLEASE do reply.
Peter
The main search I use is the search box built into the gallery. If I’m searching for interactive content within the gallery, looking under the blue interactive and multimedia bar in the search results will give me the more dynamic content, instead of just static images.
http://www.smarttech.com has good notebook lessons with gallery content built in and it is searchable.
Another search option is a google advanced search for .notebook files.
My delicious bookmarks : http://delicious.com/jen.deyenberg/Smartboard have a bunch of great smart notebook resource links as well.
I’m not sure if I answered your question – but I hope this helps, let me know if I missed the point or if I can help in any other way.
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What a great resource! I was overwhelmed trying to find the flash activity that would get my kids matching words, and your blog post was perfect for answering my questions. Thanks!
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Is there any multiple choice resource with 5 instead of 4 options? Or a possibility to add or take off?
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I love the category sort. Is there a three column version of this activity?
Maria
If you go into the edit settings in the category sort you can select to add and label a third column.
Hi, this kind of activities are what I am looking for but I’m just wondering if I can edit or customize the design to adapt it to my lesson’s design. I love the functionality but not the way it looks… is it possible?
Where i can find software flash activities to download ?
I was looking it, but i can’t find it.|
Please some link.
Anna,
If you go to the Smart Website and do to the downloads section the lesson activity toolkits downloads are on the same page as the smart notebook (http://smarttech.com/us/Support/Browse+Support/Download+Software/Software/SMART+Notebook+collaborative+learning+software/Previous+versions/SMART+Notebook+for+Windows), but you just scroll down to the bottom and choose the Lesson Activity toolkit section