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SMART Notebook The summer of 2012 I presented Smart Notebook 11 at the Ripon Tech Academy. In the Winter of 2012 I presented SMART Notebook 11 in Mauston, WI for Naomi Harm. I am trained in the lastest version on Smart Notebook 11. I have created interactive elessons for my students in the area of health along with many other Smart Board lessons. We use our Smart Board every day in our classroom! I've spent many hours creating interactive lessons for our students.

**Standard 1**: Teachers know the subjects they are teaching. The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the disciplines she or he teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for pupils.

**Evidence1**: Smart Board interactive elessons on the Human Body.

(* this file needs to be opened with Smart Board Notebook 10 software or with SMART Notebook Express)

**Rationale 1**: This lesson was developed to strengthen 5th grade students' knowledge and understanding of the Circulatory System and in particular, the heart. It includes a review of the previous lesson and then interactive pages that teach the new content. In all 20 different elessons were created to cover the entire Human Growth and Development Unit.

The making of these Smart Board activities was important to my development at a teacher, because I had just learned about teaching classes online and I wanted to adapt the concept to my 5th grade class. I needed to learn the Notebook 10 software and how to build pages that were engaging and interactive. I also was able to justify how useful and successful the lessons would be with our students. Through my observations, I was able to conclude that the students were highly engaged in the use of the Smart Board and were willing to participate in the activities that were used.


 * KSD: **

1.K.1 The teacher understands the major concepts, assumptions, debates, processes of inquiry, and ways of knowing that are central to the discipline(s) s/he teaches. Developing a sorting activity for students to initially explore how to sort their words allows for the students to work through the process of inquiry. Giving students more than one way to practice using the word study words allows students to aquire a complete view of how to use all of the words in multiple settings.

1.S.3 The teacher can evaluate teaching resources and curriculum materials for their comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usefulness in representing particular ideas and concepts. Through the use of informal assessment, I was able to determine whether students were engaged in the activities that were planned and used on the Smart Board. Through the use of the formal assessment given on Friday in the form of a test, I was able to get data showing the development of word study and spelling.

1.D.4 The teacher is committed to continuous learning and engages in professional discourse about subject matter knowledge and children’s learning of the discipline. Due to the fact that my classroom is now a 1 to 1 classroom with laptop computers for every student, I have adjusted how this lesson is now taught and how the students use their laptops to complete the activities on a more individualized basis. Activities can now be adjusted to meet the individual needs of our special education students.