Get your students up from their seats and interacting with your whiteboard by using simple techniques

1. Graphic Organizers

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Incorporate graphic organizers into your whiteboard lessons. This type of activity will easily remind you to bring students to the board for interaction. 

Freeology                                                    Eduplace Graphic Organizers
Student Handouts                                       Daily Teaching Tools
Math=Love                                                  Science Graphic Organizers
Math Graphic Organizers      
If students are using mobile devices, a few of the most popular apps available are Popplet and Inspiration Maps.
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Popplet 
This Web App  and Mobile App allows students to create any kind of graphic organizers. 
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Inspiration Maps Lite
This mobile app has prepared graphics organizers which also turn into outlines.

2. Math and Science Problems

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Students truly enjoy solving problems in math and science on the interactive whiteboard.  Randomly choose students to come to the board to answer questions.  Try the Random Name Pickers below to help you choose.


Random Name Pickers

Why use a Random Name Generator?

Random Name Generators allow teachers to choose students in a random fashion.  

*No student is called on twice.

* Ensures student participation.
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Class Tools Fruit Machine Random Name Picker

This web tool is can be easily be embedded into your interactive whiteboard to select students randomly.
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Primary Name Selector is a great tool for quickly choosing names randomly.  Save the names and use over and over again.