Tequipment: Blogging About SMART Boards, Resources, Lessons, Training, Games…

There’s a brand new “Pi Day” lesson in the downloads section of our Educator Resource Center. The file features Teq Learning Objects, songs, videos, and a variety of New York State Assessment questions. For a preview, watch the video below.

Download the lesson here (remember to log-in).

OE-CAKE acts as a physics-based paint program. Users can insert objects and see them interact under the laws of physics. It has an advanced fluid simulator with support for things such as gases, rigid objects, and even elastic materials. With the escape-codes, users can also mix the properties of elements together. You can even add your own pictures to the simulation!!!

Download OE-CAKE for the Mac here and download it for the PC here.

Thanks to everyone who downloaded our “4-in-a-Row” learning object.  We’re happy we could make it available for free for hundreds of our customers.  We’ll be adding more free stuff soon, so keep checking the store.

If you use the calendars in the gallery, you have probably realized they end in 2009. To get the 2010 calendar and more visit the SMART Gallery Collections Online. Here you will find standalone gallery packs that can be downloaded separately from the main gallery. Some of the packs include “American States,” “Childhood Stories,” and “Spanish.” Once you download these gallery packs they will be added to your “My Content” Folder.

It is that time of year again, and those of us here at Tequipment are in the spirit of giving! If you’re looking for holiday activities to use in your classroom, check out The Polar Express lesson. This file was created to be used in conjunction with the popular book by Chris Van Allsburg. Within this file there are many interactive activities that will help your students practice their researching skills, increase their vocabulary, track narrative elements, and explore cross-curriculum concepts.

Visit the Downloads section in the Educator Resource Center (ERC) to download the Polar Express lesson and customize it to fit your classroom’s needs. Don’t forget to click on the attachments tab for a Word document describing how to use and edit the file. Happy Holidays!

We have created an interactive Chanukah lesson to help teach some important ideas to our young students.  This lesson contains some excerpts from the קצור שולחן ערוך and the portion of the גמרא מסכת שבת דף כ”א עמוד ב.  Use these pages to help teach the difference between the Menorah of the בית המקדש and the 8 branch menorah that we use on Chanukah.

You can download this file from our Educator Resource Center.

Continued success with all of your students.

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday!

Here is a great idea (CAUTION SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION AHEAD). Go to: http://teqsmart.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10&products_id=53 and download our free Word Scramble creator. Within seconds you will be making SWEEEEET word searches right on your very own SMART Board. Here is a picture of one we just created.