Using+a+Projector+in+Your+Classroom

Teachers, Here are some of the ways you can use a projector to enhance teaching and learning in your classroom. Feel free to click "Edit this page" and add some of your own ideas.


 * 1) Demonstrate math manipulatives using eTools (linked from Polarbear Resources)
 * 2) Project the Scott Foresman (KB) videos and activities
 * 3) Show Discovery Streaming Videos (and the quizzes that go along with some of them?)
 * 4) Show Brain Pop videos and quizzes
 * 5) Project Study island questions (and "lessons") for quick whole-class review.
 * 6) Demonstrate Geography concepts using Google Earth
 * 7) Demonstrate math concepts using the new math tools in Kidspiration
 * 8) Project graphic organizers onto your whiteboard and write on them (using the whiteboard)
 * 9) Show visuals for science experiments
 * 10) Show pictures you've taken with your digital camera
 * 11) Audio visual resources from internet
 * 12) Whole class participate in practice test - Use their whiteboards so they can interact
 * 13) Going over tests
 * 14) Isolate new vocabulary
 * 15) Show and Tell
 * 16) Current Events
 * 17) Highlighted good vs bad grammar in writing
 * 18) Showing selected DVDs or Videos
 * 19) Graphing, charts, tables
 * 20) Creative writing - add a line
 * 21) Step-by-step math problem solving
 * 22) Displaying student work
 * 23) Displaying class agenda/schedule
 * 24) Read-aloud
 * 25) Modeling note-taking
 * 26) Mapping and group editing
 * 27) Live web-cams
 * 28) Coins and manipulatives
 * 29) Use the digital microscope to view small objects.
 * 30) Finished project to look, model while going through directions
 * 31) No more big semicircle watching the teacher
 * 32) Video streaming (United Streaming and online videos)
 * 33) Sequence of pictures, time lapse, to demonstrate progression.
 * 34) Adding visuals to note outlines.
 * 35) Paperless handouts.
 * 36) Showing hands-on tasks.
 * 37) Compare and Contrast.
 * 38) Step by step instructions.
 * 39) Choral reading.
 * 40) Cloze activities.
 * 41) Labeling activities
 * 42) Display maps, charts, graphs, images from textbooks.
 * 43) Visualization of content-Reading comprehension-Making connections.
 * 44) Descriptive writing activities using image as writing prompt.
 * 45) Picture books with read alouds
 * 46) Display a timer for assignments
 * 47) Powerpoint Jeopardy
 * 48) Skype video chatting with classes around the world
 * 49) Online Textbook
 * 50) Teach songs using pp
 * 51) Graphic organizer- Inspiration- Kidspiration
 * 52) Worldbook Online & NetTrekker (model how to search)
 * 53) Surround your students with images from the unit you are studying. Show people, architecture, art, food, social scenes, etc. for a social studies unit.
 * 54) Show a powerpoint - Google online for powerpoints that may have already been made by someone else (They can usually be changed to meet your needs once you download it, rename it, and then save it to your desktop.) Check out the following link to get you started - []

Ultimate Pen - Types and draws on screen: [] Trial license - 20 days or 40 tries

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