Welcome to TeacherLed.com. This site aims to provide teaching and learning resources to make the use of the interactive whiteboard in the classroom easier and more productive. Interactive whiteboard resources are categorised on the left. New interactive whiteboard resources are below.

This interactive whiteboard resource is intended to allow students at the interactive whiteboard to demonstrate their ability to compare numbers to varying decimal places.  It also allows practise at remembering which sign is which between the < and > signs.  After pressing start various decimal numbers will appear the student must then write a > or < on the large blue square.  The software will then recognise which of the 2 signs has been drawn and award a point for a correct answer and remove one for an incorrect answer.  As the IWB resource analyses a drawn sign rather than a button press this resource is much more natural to use with an IWB rather than a mouse and screen.  It is hoped that the drawing of the signs will be more effective in reinforcing knowledge that pressing buttons with the signs on them.

 The character recognition on this resource is not working too hard to distinguish between only 2 signs so it is quite forgiving.  It is up to the teacher to set rules on correctly formed signs.

Please comment on how you have found this resource and report any errors.  Note on the picture it looks like an answer has been marked incorrectly.  The “correct” is for the previous question and is fading out!

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A selection of interactive whiteboard spelling activities based on this IWB Resource put on the site last year.  Following comment from users there are now 2 new types of word s work with and a clear button for correcting errors.

 This resource is to be played at the IWB by students.  A common letter combination is shown at the top of the screen and the student is challenged to make the longest word they can from the variety of letters shown on the given tiles. Non-scoring words such as those that do not contain the given vowels or are incorrect will result in points being taken away.  A four letter word will score 1, a five letter word 2, 6 letters will score 3 and  more than 6 will score 5.  Each game is timed with the time available  be set by the teacher.  There will always be at least a 4 letter word that is possible for each selection.

Double consonants IWB Resource

Oe, oa, oi, etc IWB Resource

Random vowel blends IWB Resource

Further comments on this resource and your use of it welcomed.

An interactive whiteboard resource that you may find useful for practising multiplication tables with your class.  It is intended to support children in visualising what multiplication does.  The rainbows illustrate the counting on technique and the raindrops show the number of sets in the multiplication.  Led by the teacher, a  class  can work through each multiplication table tapping it to confirm the group’s answer with the appearance of the next rainbow.

At the bottom of the screen you will see a scroll bar.  Tap above this to move one along on the currently selected multiplication table.  The next rainbow will appear as well as the raindrops.  Holding and dragging the scroll bar will allow you to advance through the multiples (unless you have tapped enough times to make all of the rainbows appear some or all of this will be blank).  Or you can flick the scroll bar for it to move quickly to the opposite end.

Changing the multiple amount or pressing clear will make the rainbows and raindrops dissappear ready to start again on either the same or a different multiplier.

Suggestions, comments, problems are appreciated in the comments section.

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A paper copy of the chain of rainbows can be downloaded here for student use.

A  numberline that shows negative numbers for the interactive whiteboard.  It ranges from -50 to +50.  The numbers are categorised by colour with negative numbers underscored by red, and positive by black.  Which isn’t particularly asthetically pleasing but does reflect the financial phrases of “in the red” to represents debt etc.

You can annotate dirtectly onto the line using the built in writing tool.  These annotations will then scroll with the line as you move it about.  Scroll the numberline using the bar at the bottom. It has realistic physics built into it so the line can be quickly flicked from one end to the other.

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This resource could be used in conjunction with this Temperature Comparison IWB resource for teaching negative numbers.

Comments on the resource’s use are welcomed below.

An interactive whiteboard resource to demonstrate the measuring of angles to a class.  The two black lines can be moved to create varying angles.  The arcs signifying the angles in question can be toggled on or off leaving one or both on display by using the two buttons with the red and blue arcs in them.  There are two type of angle measurer that can be used: a 180 degree protractor and a 360 degree angle measurer.  These can be toggled by the appropriate buttons on the display or removed by using the very top button.  The angle measurers can be rotated by clicking and dragging.  They will always be centred over the point where the lines meet. 

Using this resource you should be able to realistically demonstrate the measuring of angles.

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Please report any problems or suggestions in the comments section.

A simple IWB resource to help with class quiz activites.  It works as a game show style  buzzer and nothing more.  There are two button on screen representing two teams.  Two students can be at the IWB and hit the button when they know the answer to a question being read out by the teacher.  The resource will show who hit the button first by lighting up and playing a buzzer sound.  Once illuminated the display dims one light at a time which can be used as an indicator for when the answer has to be spoken by.

Teachers can use this as a tool to suit however they wish their activity to run.  A few ideas to involve the whole class as well as just those at the IWB might be useful.  The students could revolve after each question.  An alternative would be to have all of the students in the class write their answers down.  If the student at the front is first on the buzzer and gets the answer correct a further point could be awarded if more than half of his/her team had the correct answer written down.  For questions involving long calculations the student at the front can buzz when he believes someone in his team has worked out the answer.

If you find this useful leave a comment witha description of how you used it.  Describing any problems with it would also be appreciated in the comments.

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There is a supporting article on using this resource in conjunction with others on teacherledplus.com.

A function machine interactive whiteboard resource.  Children seem to enjoy the concept of the numbers going through a process to be converted on a function machine.  Borrowing a graphical style from computer games this function machine IWB resource lets you set one or two function machines.  Click on the number and it will go through the function machine conversion process.  If the number is on the left it will move right going through the process to become the output.  If it is on the right the process will be reversed to go back to the input number.

The single blue button brings up a control panel.  From here you can determine the input numbers’ start value.  The number of functions lets you toggle between one or two function machines.  The hide details lets you disguise the the functions, input numbers and operations.  Of course, this means that while you can hide all of this from your class you’ll have to count your clicks to know what you are entering.  The numbers are also reset by opening and closing the panel.

To enable the whole class to work along with the IWB resource there are a couple of printable resources in a similar style.  On these the students can enter the start numbers and then the finish numbers after the process is complete and try to predict what the functions are.

On a technical note the particle effects in this resource may be a strain for older computers especially on larger numbers which don’t really suit the resource but are possible as outputs.  While the resource is new please check that any combination of numbers you wish to use in lesson work okay as there is quite a lot going on behind the scenes of this resource and it is impossible for all of the combinations of numbers and actions to be checked for bugs.  If you notice any problems or graphical glitches please comment with problem, the numbers that the problem was caused by, an if you know it, your screen resolution.  Other comments are welcome too.

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Single function machine printable resource.

Double function machine printable resource.