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Kindergarten Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa social studies activities for SMART Notebook
Needs & Wants Social Studies SmartBoard Lesson for Primary Grades
Do you NEED a lesson on needs and wants? I hope you will WANT to purchase this one! My smart board lesson contains a detailed lesson plan for this 2 day lesson, interactive pages ( pull tabs, click to reveal), video link, website links and a printable responding sheet for your students. Literature book suggestions are included as well (you will need to get your own copy at the library). Your class will have fun learning about the difference between needs and wants! View the PREVIEW file to s
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K - 2nd
SMARTboard: How To Make Gingerbread Houses!
This is an 11 slide SmartBoard Lesson on How To Make Gingerbread Houses with milk cartons. This is done every year in the 1st grade at my school and this is to be shown to the students before their parents arrive, and the various forms of overview pages are to be left on the smartboard to help guide the parents to assisting their children in making Gingerbread houses!
Often, we'll assign different materials to each student, plus one can of frosting per child. Then we take all the materials and
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PreK - 5th
The Flag, A National Symbol of the USA SmartBoard Lesson
Learn about the flag of the USA with my interactive SmartBoard Lesson. The file includes and teacher's lesson plan, interactive pages, links to websites, yourtube videos and links to flag printables. Your students will learn about the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance, the history of the flag, Betsy Ross and answer true/false questions (interactive pages) about the flag. Finally, links to flag printables are included. Have fun learning about one of the National Symbols of the United States
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K - 2nd
Non-Fiction Exploration Unit: Lessons, Slides, Activities and More!
Smart Notebook slides for Non-Fiction unit: Includes 75 slides with lessons, activities, turn and talk, resources and more!
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K - 4th
Also included in:Â Non-Fiction Unit Plans, Activities and Resources
Gingerbread Place Value for SMARTboard (Christmas Smart Board)
Gingerbread Place Value for SMARTboardYour students will love to practice place value of tens and ones with the gingerbread man! Includes 34 pages with 4 different engaging activities. See pictures and preview to view.PLEASE NOTE: This was made using SMART Notebook 11 software. You must have SMART Notebook software to use this product. Clip art by:Other Smart board Products:Year-Long SMARTboard Calendar.Winter CVC Fun (Focus on Short i).SMARTboard Attendance Bundle.**************************
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K - 2nd
Christmas Lights SMART Board Attendance Activity w/ Animation and Sound
Let's have a day that's merry and bright! Students tap their Christmas light to turn it on. A Christmas bell chimes as the light turns from white to red or green!
This attendance activity comes with both a numbered page (if you assign students numbers) and a page where you can change student names. Directions for changing names are included!
Created by Deb Painter, 2013
*If you are concerned about students being able to reach the higher items on a SMART Board, consider having students use
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PreK - 8th
SMARTboard: 1st Grade Social Studies: Change Over Time
This 6 slide SMARTboard Lesson is fully interactive with clickable objects on most pages to reveal new and old means of transportation and forms of technology.
Excellent for discussions using CCLS questioning skills, think-pair-share discussions, as well as using descriptive words and writing about comparing and contrasting.
Use these slides in a multitude of ways to support the needs of your individual classroom!
Grades:
K - 2nd
Learn about Abraham Lincoln SmartBoard lesson primary grades
President's Day honors 2 American Presidents. Teach your k-2 students all about one of them, Abraham Lincoln, with my smart board lesson. The file includes:1. Teacher's lesson plan2. Links to websites (videos, information, pictures)3. True False interactive mini quiz4. Printable writing response sheets (show what you know). Differentiated for 3 levels of writing.5. Interactive pagesLearn about Abraham Lincoln and keep your students engaged!Open the preview to see all the pages in this .n
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K - 2nd
Abraham Lincoln Freebie for Smartboard
Kids will have a fun and engaging time learning about Abraham Lincoln with this interactive Smartboard.
Use as an introduction, unit review or for independent practice with your students.
Simply drag and drop the correct answer into the box. Picture cues and differences in answer box sizes will help younger learners. This can also be a great opportunity to use the Smartboard markers to locate sight words within sentences, find and mark punctuation and capitalization.
If you are interest
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PreK - 2nd
Holidays Around the World Performance- Diversity Songs/Poems
Looking to impress parents and put on a performance they will never forget? This is a smart board presentation that you can use to help practice and prepare your children for a wonderful night time performance for parents. We typically have two classes perform these songs/poems, but one or more is fine. The following holidays are covered; Diwali, Kwanzaa, Las Posadas, St. Lucia, Hanukkah, and Christmas. There is also a candle poem and song included.
**Please note- These are slides that are u
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PreK - 2nd
Christmas Holiday Measurement SMARTBOARD Activity
This activity is a perfect way to introduce or practice measuring skills with your students. They will love the fun graphics and interactive slides and you will love the variety of practice activities and discussion questions!
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to compare the lengths of a group of objects.
Students will be able to measure an object using a shorter object.
Common Core Standard Alignment
1st Grade: Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
1. Order three ob
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K - 2nd
Arctic SMART Board Thematic Unit
This is an interactive SMART Board presentation about the climate, culture, people, communities, and animals in the Arctic. It includes lessons, videos, interactive slides, lab ideas, and writing/craft activities for each subtopic including the tundra, the Inuit people, land animals and camouflage, Arctic animals with fur, Arctic animals with feathers, and Arctic animals with blubber.
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K - 3rd
Needs and Wants with Pigeon
Use the Pigeon books to teach needs and wants to your students. There are links to the books in the presentation. Also, there is a directed drawing activity with step by step directions!
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K - 2nd
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Smartboard Sorts Seasons Community Helpers
Smartboard sorts One is for the seasons winter and summer and the other is for community helpers. Each is self checking and can be reset in a different order. You must have Notebook software to use these activities. Please make sure you do before you purchase.I am licensed to sell products with the clip art from Thistle Girls Designs. You are not allowed to change or resell these items.
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PreK - 1st
Talking About Geography!: SMARTBOARD Activities
If you want to supplement your study of GEOGRAPHY, this is the resource for you! This file is complete with TWELVE different social studies activities that can be used in your classroom for whole group instruction, small group work, or individual practice! This SMART Board file includes the following:Geography VocabularyKWL ChartLabelsMap KeyContinentsGlobesMapsCardinal DirectionsVenn DiagramSortingBuilding Your Own MapLand and WaterThis file was created using SMART Board 15 and is supported by
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PreK - 1st
Gingerbread Fun An Adventure in Math and Language (Notebook 11)
This Gingerbread Unit includes 27 interactive SmartBoard pages as well as 19 PDFS full of delightful activities that will keep your class busy learner for a whole week. The unit includes
A gingerbread subtraction poem with bright graphics and lots of action!
Describing Words
A structured gingerbread poem that uses the descriptive words
A Write the Room activity
A Measure the Room activity
Peppermint Perimeters
Take a Bite graphing activity
Gingerbread Glyph
Measuring Height
This unit was develo
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K - 1st
The Nutcracker Suite-Dance Of Sugar Plum Fairy-(Listening Map) SMBD/NTBK ED.
This SMART NOTEBOOK Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 4 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will follow a listening map as they hear the sugar plum fairy dance her way from one section to the next. Students will be expected to read simple rhythmic notation including quarter notes, quarter rests, and paired eighth notes, repeat signs, as well as visual icons to help navigate their way through the map. Included in this lesson is a YouTube link to
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Grades:
K - 8th
Christmast Holiday Science Experiments/Activities
Four (plus one bonus) exciting, hands-on and engaging Christmas Science experiments you can do with your class using simple and easy to find supplies. In the older grades you can even explain the Science behind the chemical and state reactions!
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PreK - 8th
Marvelous Maps
This Smart notebook is an engaging, interactive way to teach and practice basic map skills in the primary grades. Topics include continents, map keys, cardinal directions, and more. Students can even drag and drop icons to create their own town!
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Telling Time to the Hour and Half Hour
What Time Will Santa Come?
Telling Time to the Hour and Half Hour
This SmartBoard Christmas Themed lesson will teach the First Grade Common Core Standard: Tell time in hours and half-hours using analog clocks.
Student will tell the teacher what time the clock is showing.
He/She will touch the circle under the correct time.
If correct the circle will turn green and the student will hear a Christmas sound.
If incorrect the circle will turn red and student will year a flat tone.
How to g
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Grades:
K - 2nd
The Nutcracker Suite-Waltz Of The Flowers (A Listening Map)SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK
This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students in grades 3 and up and is part 9 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will be expected to identify the 4 musical themes heard in this dance tune as well as the instruments that play each of those themes. Students will also be able to identify the main form of the piece as ABA form. Activities included in this file are a very colorful vibrant listening map, a theme identification activity, a form labeling activity, a
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K - 8th
BLACK HISTORY, INVENTORS THEME, CELEBRATING DIVERSITY
SMART NOTE FILE, PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SMART NOTEBOOK DOWNLOADED ON YOUR COMPUTER, COMPATIBLE TO USE WITH SMARTBOARDThe packet includes everything you'll need to teach about African American Inventors.This can be used during Black History Month, around Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, or really whenever you would like to teach about diversity.This packet includes:*** Lesson plans appropriate for use in an Early Childhood Education setting (CRAFTIVITIES!)*** Smartnote file t
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PreK - 2nd
Smartboard: Interactive Christmas Bingo
This is a Smartboard Interactive Bingo Game. There are 30 pages in this file. The first page is a random selector containing Christmas images. The following 29 pages are Bingo game cards for you to print. When I play with my class I choose a student to be the "selector". This student will press the select button and call out the image that was selected. The other students will each have their own game card and place a marker on the image that was selected. The first student to cover the e
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K - 4th
Cowboy Tunes & Songs from the Westward Expansion - SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.
It's finally here!! Mrs. Kuchta's Corner, An Elementary Music Wonderland presents to you this fantastic collection of famous historical American cowboy tunes and westward expansion songs that we all know and LOVE to sing. This collection is a GREAT addition to your elementary music classroom library and can also be a fantastic cross-curricular aide to add to any regular elementary classroom teacher's library as well to help supplement your American History units of study. Lyrics and melodic n
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Grades:
K - 8th
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