SMART+Board


 * African Safari is lesson plan geared towards first or second grade students. It is meant to teach students about several areas of science, including animal science, food chains, classification and sorting. The students will be required to apply terms and characteristics to animals while sorting animals into categories. Students will learn differences between predators, prey and scavengers. They will also have to apply knowledge about where animals live. Mammals and cold blooded animals will be discussed, so student will need to have knowledge on how to tell the difference and categorize.
 * The lesson is meant to last a week with 15 to 20 minutes a day working on the ciriculum.

Standards: Students know and understand the characteristics and structure of living things, the processes of life and how living things interact with each other and their environment. **Prepared Graduates** The preschool through twelfth-grade concepts and skills that all students who complete the Colorado education system must master to ensure their success in a postsecondary and workforce setting. **Prepared Graduate Competencies in the Life Science standard:**  Analyze the relationship between structure and function in living systems at a variety of organizational levels, and recognize living systems’ dependence on natural selection  Explain and illustrate with examples how living systems interact with the biotic and abiotic environment  Analyze how various organisms grow, develop, and differentiate during their lifetimes based on an interplay between genetics and their environment  Explain how biological evolution accounts for the unity and diversity of living organisms
 * 2. Life Science**

**Standard Seven: Knowledge of Technology:** The teacher is skilled in technology and is knowledgeable about using technology to support instruction and enhance student learning. **The teacher has demonstrated the ability to:** 7.1 Apply technology to the delivery of standards-based instruction. 7.2 Use technology to increase student achievement. 7.3 Utilize technology to manage and communicate information. 7.4 Apply technology to data-driven assessments of learning. 7.5 Instruct students in basic technology skills.

Future use for Smart Board in the classroom: Smart board has some wonderful ways of integrating technology and material into the classroom in interactive ways. Smart board has endless possibilities to engage students in new material, making learning fun. I feel that I can utilize the smart board in many ways to enhance my classroom. I look forward to learning more about all the uses and functions available in the programs

I have mixed while I finished this project. I had a fairly frustrating time with the smart board software. My computer did not like the software program and would freeze when I tried to add graphics to the slides. So this project took me at least twice as long as it should have to complete. I have seen Smart board programs used before so I know how impressive the programs are, however I didn't have a positive experience. I feel like this program is an excellent way to integrate material into my classroom in a fun way, So I will need to keep working with it until I can fully see the extent of capabilities it has. After that I know that I will be comfortable with using the program for my classroom for a wide range of subjects.