• Features
• Endorsements

• Edit child's paper without marking on it (mark on acrylic)
• Copy teacher material from board onto white marker board (erase)
• Figure math story problem by drawing quick illustrations (erase)
• Paint on acrylic or whiteboard
  Art projects - child's face - draw surrounding, etc. - other photos, animals, etc. (imagination), monsters (good story lead in)
• Drafting, design work
• Photocopy work from whiteboard to save
• Hocus Focus perceptual drawings
• Insert weekly reader: respond-mark on acrylic
• Insert photos, magazine pictures, cut-up cereal boxes, comic books
• Locate reference materials from data base
• Make own skill sheets to fit child's needs
• Greater on-task time (motivation)
• Edit child's work prior to re-write (mark on acrylic, not their paper)
• Save money on paper
• Excellent educational gift from relatives and unlike candy, it's not bad for their teeth
• Home schoolers, head start, day care, special education, hospital, bed-ridden, handicapped
• Graphs, fractions, telling time, calendar, measurements, geometry
• Other uses - imagination will create

Teacher: explain care / use of markers.

• Do not bang / jab / strike marker nib on surfaces.
  
  
• Always replace cap when finished

The Trace Erase Board® may be used by learners of all ages from preschool through high school. Even college students, professionals, and other adults may benefit from using this learning tool.

Here are a few additional uses for the different surfaces of The Trace Erase Board® that can be adapted to various age or skill levels:

• Decreases frustration when learning new skills - no need to "start all over" if mistakes are made.
• Eliminates messy erasing, paper wastes, time hunting for materials or sharpening pencils
• Lets children practice over and over at their own pace untill they feel proficient and competent.
• Encourages child to create both new things and new ways of doing old things.
• Fosters pride in achievement, ownership of work.
• Allows child to "trace over" magazines and other printed material without destroying them.

• Work homemade or commercial puzzles, word searches, mazes, dot-to-dots, hidden pictures...
• Trace shapes, letters, numbers, pictures, maps, or photos.
• Practice telling time by filling in clock faces.
• Work math problems or practice time tables.
• Practice handwriting from basics to calligraphy.

• Draw, then tell stories based on drawing.
• Practice a learned skill independently.
• Play games such as hangman & tic-tac-toe.
• List spelling or vocabulary words.
• Draft a letter or story.
• Practice math facts or problem solving.
• Create a story board.

• Encourages parental involvement.
• Portability allows freedom to give child opportunities to work while at home, school, or most anywhere.
• Eliminates providing a supply of paper.
• Does not become obsolete as a child advances.
• Can be used alone or with sibiling or parent.
• Lets parents & children create their own reusable pages.

• Check facts at a glance
• Use for practice or self-quiz

• Motivates even distractable children to stay on task.
• Greatly reduces paperwork; saves prep time.
• Lets teachers create reusable pages tailored to specific needs or skills.
• Adaptable for use with other commercial work sheets.
• Edit child's paper without marking on it - make correction on acrylic - not paper.
• Increases ability to use non-reproducible material without detsorying them.
• Gives students an opportunity to actively work along with you as you write on the chalkboard or overhead projector.
• Students copy teachers's work on their whiteboard.
• Can be used instead of "individual response cards".

Paper/pencil activities are fine for tests and work students want or need to save, but most learning activities invovled practice that need not be saved or even necessarily evaluated. The Trace Erase Board® has distinct advantages over paper and pencil in these situations:

• Allows child to experiment with responses (erase & repeat).
• Saves paper and forests.
• Encourages creativity.
• Increases time on task.
• Relieves pressure of "permanency"
• Provides multimedia opportunities.
• Is versitile - there are no age ability level restrictions
• Provides kinesthetic feed back.
• Motivates child to learn.
• Just plain fun to use!