Earth Day is coming soon, and SMART is looking for your best lesson activity on the environment. The winner will receive a SMART classroom package worth over US $3,500, including a SMART Board 600i interactive whiteboard system and an annual subscription to the SMART Learning Marketplace, a subscription service with over a million digital resources.

How to enter
Create a lesson activity about climate change, your local habitat or any topic relevant to the environment. Lesson activities can be for any subject or cross-curricular. Lessons that use Notebook software features and video, sound, Adobe Flash, screen captures, links and other interactive tools will be given preference.

To submit your lesson activity, follow these steps:

1. If you haven’t already, join the SMART Exchange
2. Click on the Downloads tab at the top of the page
3. Select the Lesson Activity Contest folder from the Browse Folders section
4. Click on the Upload button
5. You will be taken to the Upload File page.
6. Click on File/URL.  An upload window will appear. Complete the following:
1. Click the Browse button and attach the lesson activity file
2. Enter a title in the Name field
3. Enter the grade level and a brief description of your lesson activity in the Description field
4. Enter key words in the Tags field [NOTE: tags must be separated by a semi-colon and a space]
5. Once finished, click the Save button

You can upload lessons activities until February 21, 2008. A panel of SMART experts will select the top 20 lesson activities about the environment.

These 20 lesson activities will be highlighted on  the SMART Exchange from February 28 to March 27, so members can vote for the one they like best. The lesson activity with the most peer votes will be announced as the winner on April 1, 2008.

Contest details
Your lesson activity must follow the guidelines below:

• Lesson activities must be created in Notebook collaborative learning software 9.5 or higher. Download the latest version.
• All lesson activities must be a minimum of five pages long
• The file size must not exceed 4 MB
• Lesson activities must be easily adaptable by another teacher
• All submissions must comply with copyright laws

For a full list of the contest terms and conditions, click here.

 A quick update: If you need a demo on how to upload a lesson activity for this contest, please watch this video.

Hello,

I uploaded my file for the contest.  I realized a small mistake and fixed it.  I thought when I would be able to delete my original post, but I can't.  Now there are two submissions that are almost identical.  Is there anyway to take down the first file? 

 Hi cmary,

I've taken care of that and deleted the first file.
 

Is the vote based on the number of downloads?  Does it start on the 28th or can people start voting now?