A Window to the World
Just imagine the possibilities


A never ending challenge for educators is to make their lessons relevant for their students. It makes all the difference when students understand that what they are learning is significant to what’s happening in the world today. To accomplish that, we must bring the world directly to children right inside the classroom. That is exactly what the Promethean Activclassroom can do in ways that were unimaginable until today.

Just Imagine…




At 8:00 am… you start your school day with a history lesson on President Lincoln. You log into Google Earth, put in the street address for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. In seconds with Activpen in hand, you and your class are zooming into the latest satellite photo of the Lincoln Memorial. There it is… in real time, in living color on a 78” Activboard. You have their attention.











Then, you take your students through a walking photo tour through the inside the monument on About.com.













And finally, after teaching and discussing the issues surrounding the Lincoln-Douglas debates, you insert a C-Span DVD into your Notebook PC so your class can watch and listen to a dramatic 1994 re-enactment of the most famous Presidential Debate in US history.





To wrap the lesson up, you give a quick quiz using the Activotes… and then go back over the areas of the lesson that many of the students didn’t grasp.


At 1:00 pm… in science class, today’s lesson is on tsunamis and the geological events that cause them.


To start your lesson, you log onto a tsunami video website and show your students amateur camcorder footage of the 2004 tsunami disaster shot from the balcony of a motel. The cameraman (father) is with his wife and son looking towards the beach. At first, they are amazed to see a very large wave come crashing into the beach. A short while later a much larger wave suddenly appears and can be seen breaking right in front of the beach and has such force that part of it proceeds right into their resort instantly filling it with water and doing immense damage.

You’ve got them again…