SMARTBoards and Downloadable Science Animations

While the content of interactive educational resources is growing on the Internet, very rarely do you find websites that allow you (and provide assistance) for downloading the content to your own computer.

Freezeray is a one of those few places where teachers can find and download interactive resources for Science investigations. In fact, these resources were developed specifically for Interactive Whiteboards.

The site organizes the resources into various categories including Physics, Biology, Technology, and Chemistry. They even have a fun place to practice  Science-related literacy. The resources here include a hangman type game and various key-idea interactive resources.

As I mentioned previously, the interactive resources are downloadable and can be used freely for non-commercial purposes. The really good thing about these resources is that they are flash-based and can be imported into your Smart Notebook files. 

While the site has instructions for downloading the resources by searching your Temporary Files folder, there is an easier way, especially if you have the Firefox web browser.

Here's a short video that shows how to save the flash-based (swf) version of these activities to your computer using the Firefox browser and import the file into Notebook. (This video is iPhone compatible.)

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Comments

[Colleen McLain]

Hey James! Great information. Can you explain how does this works? Why does this same "trick" not work at http://www.teacherled.com/all-interactive-whiteboard-resources/?

Colleen

[johnsonn@oakwood.k12.il.us]

Please Help!

I am tying to make a slide on Notebook and it is large, so we would have to extend the page. I add a background and it stops at the bottom of the page. Right at "extend page". Then it is white as you scroll down. Does anyone know how to get the whole screen with a background??

Thanks!