welcome

About me

Teaching english when I was

a kid

Cone of learning

About smartkids

About me

Mert Balin – mertbalin@gmail.com

Born in Izmir – Turkey

Lived in Istanbul – Turkey

Have been working with kids for 16 years

Started own business “smartkids” in 2003

Living in Northern part of Cyprus, and doing smartkids activities in schools

teaching english when I was a kid (8)

BBC Follow Me – from a video tape

Workbooks - Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Smith go to the cinema.

Where do Mr. and Mrs. Smith go to?

Where do they go to?

Fill in the blanks with correct words.

They go to the _______________ . cinema

What do Mr. and Mrs. Smith look like?

What does Mrs. Smith look like?

She is blondeShe is tall

She has short hair

She has blue eyes

Fill in the blanks with correct adjectives.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

She is __________

What does Mrs. Smith look like?

Fill in the blanks with correct words.

Beautiful, sexy, nice, good looking, gorgeous, tall and thin, sexy, beautiful, attractive ....

Nice and long legs, tatoos, natural breasts, silicone lips, adopted kids, twins, golden globe award, handsome husband, long hair, big dreamy eyes, nice lips, fascinating body,...

She has got __________

different Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Edgar Dale – cone of learning

Edgar Dale (1900 – 1985) developed Cone of Learnig.

Here's what he says:

after two weeks,

we remember only 10% of what we

read

but 90% of what we do

zone of pain :)

what is smartkids?

ImagineCreate

ExploreShare

smartkids is a dynamic learning center providing activities in Lego, technology, electronics, robotics, science and digital multimedia. 

Combining art, technology and creative content, smartkids aims to provide meaningful learning experiences for children ages 3-14 yrs

How?

Smartkids is composed of curious kids who

transform their curiousity into a fun learning

process.

Smartkids provides the right spirit, materials and

the environment.

And learning is a natural outcome of the

process.

creative explorers program

3-6 age group

1 hour program once a week

Each week different topic

Each session has 4 different parts, selected from computer

game, video, lego play, science, art and drama

we had so much F U N !

Thank you...

Special thanks to all teachers,

who teach in an adventurous and fun way.

Thank you...

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission can not be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Project number 143337-LLP-1-2008-1-DE-KA2-KA2NW