The first and most generic use a Promethean ActivBoard is for the teacher to use it as an interactive presentation station. Since the ActivBoard connects to the computer, teachers can incorporate sound, video and images into lessons and activities. Student may also have roles to play in these activities by interacting with the whiteboard to answer questions and reveal solutions.
Promethean interactive activities are called flip charts. Teachers can find pre-made flip charts or create their own flip charts for math activities. Ideas for math flip charts include matching fraction shapes to their corresponding numerical fractions. Hundreds charts activities can also be very popular to help students find patterns. A hundreds chart is a square grid with numbers from one to 100 ordered in 10 rows, with 10 numbers in each row. For instance, students might come to the board and color all multiples of four on the ActivBoard. Students can use a hundreds chart to recognize patterns of multiples or even to add or subtract using patterns seen on a hundreds chart.
Flip charts for social studies often deal with geography, which an ActivBoard is well suited for. One common activity is to match names with places. Students might see a map of a certain region displayed, but names of countries are not in the right places. Students have to go to the board, use a special pen and drag the correct location names to the correct locations. They might also drag complete countries or continents to their correct locales.
The interactive nature of Promethean's ActivBoard is a great fit for science activities. Teachers can perform virtual experiments on topics for which actual experiments might be impractical or impossible. A web search will yield many interactive virtual experiments compatible with the ActivBoard. Though students can't actually preform the experiment, physically interacting with the whiteboard can be very engaging.
Like most other companies that offer interactive whiteboards, Promethean also makes a variety of other products. Student Response Systems are commonly paired with interactive whiteboards. Teachers create assessments with the proper Promethean software and display it on the ActivBoard. Students each have a response clicker which automatically records student responses and data. This is an effective way to include every student in interactive quizzes and tests. Teachers can also use student response clickers to allow students to answer questions discretely and anonymously. This can help even the shyest students to respond and participate