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4th grade critical thinking world history resources for SMART Notebook
Reading Strategies and Independent Reading Response Unit, SB & PDF
A best selling unit!
This unit is designed to set up your independent reading program, and to specifically teach each reading strategy through a series of 15 lessons.
This download includes the Smartboard file (50+) and all pdf handouts (70+ pages)
The unit is divided into 2 parts, the first 6 lessons are dedicated to setting up an effective independent reading program.
The second part of the unit is dedicated to teaching reading strategies through a variety of mini lessons, read-a-louds
Grades:
4th - 6th
NO PREP Main Idea Reading Response Unit, Smartboard and PDF
Just print and start teaching! This is a NO PREP resource! Students will learn to determine the main idea of a variety of high interest texts. Test their reading comprehension of a variety of non-fiction texts with a series of reading responses. Your students will be engaged and ready to rock their standardized test!
* A great unit to prep for standardized testing!*
What's Included:
Smartboard File (65 + pages)
Main Idea Unit PDF handouts (50+ pages).
All unit instructions and Assessme
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Ancient Egypt for Primary part 2
45 pages will help you teach Ancient Egypt with ease. 6 student interactive pages and 13 relevant/precise topic links to keep students engaged. Three lessons specifically focused on King Tut, the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Excellent illustrations/ pictures, and simplified text that will suit primary grades. Simple project or hands on activity to go with each topic. Part one is available for purchase if you would like to implement the entire 6 day unit. day unit.
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Grades:
K - 4th
Ancient Egypt Primary
47 page presentation is designed to use over three lessons. This smart board was specifically designed with the younger students in mind. Excellent illustrations along with simplified explanations make this smart board easy to use and engaging to primary grades. Nine links for relevant, short video clips or online activites. It provides many opportunities for student interaction. This presentation provides information on the importance of the Nile River to the Ancient Egyptians, Daily life an
Grades:
1st - 5th
NO PREP! Inferencing Author's Message Unit, Diversity, Smartboard & PDF
UPDATED: *Clarity has been fixed on this unit!* I also added name/date headers to handouts and links to each handout on SB lesson page for easy access*
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ABOUT THE UNIT:
Teach and challenge your students to use inferencing skills! This is a reading for meaning unit where students learn the basics of inferencing and are challenged to infer the author’s message of a variety of high interest texts. The commo
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Visual Word Puzzles -- 10 Fun verbal brainteasers for Smartboard
Are you m1llion (one in a million)? Do you have timing ti ming (split second timing)? Then you will love these puzzles. Try these ten verbal brain teasers with your class, and they will definitely ask for more!
The hidden answer is revealed by moving the blue circle around the page.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Primary/Elementary) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
Grades:
K - 5th, Staff
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First Colonies - Smartboard Lesson
This 18 slide smartboard lesson helps students identify the English, Spanish, and French colonies in North America and summarize the motivations for settlement.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Bats: Informational Text and Fact Or Opinion Sort-Smartboard 11.4-Windows OS
IMAGINE the look of wonder on your students’ faces as they read and apply fact/opinion skills while exploring the AMAZING world of bats! This complete unit includes:
-Fact/Opinion Introduction and Lessons
-KWL Fact Chart
-Opinion Graph
-Fact/Opinion Sign (signaling)
-Factual Informational Text Booklet
-Craftivity Bat (to hold booklet)
-Real-Life Micro- and Mega- Bat Pictures
-Fact/Opinion Sort-Apply Skills
-Craftivity Bat Cave for Fact/Opinion Sort
-Bat Anatomy-Label Body Parts
-Recommended Rea
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Text Features Unit, No Prep Technology Infused Learning, Smartboard & PDF
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Are you looking to try out some new instructional strategies to engage your junior learners? Try incorporating some technology! From beginners to tech savvy teachers, this unit has something for everyone! You do not need a class set of tech… you can use classroom computers, laptops, ipads and even phones! You can even plan a BYOD day! (Bring Your Own Device) OR no tech at all…you
Grades:
4th - 6th
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6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)
This activity encourages critical thinking and higher order questioning by having students write their own 6-word memoir. The lesson is a SMARTboard file, so you can edit it to fit your needs!
Started by Ernest Hemingway and popularized in the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning," students will write a story about their lives. The only catch - they can only use 6 words!
In my classroom, I had my students draw an illustration to accompany their six word memoir. We bound the memoirs in a boo
Grades:
2nd - 12th
SmartBoard Morning meeting - calendar, counting days, weather tally, skip count
This 16 page SmartBoard file is for you to use to start your day! The first page is a "Good Morning" page that you can edit to give your students instructions for the day, let them know what is to be turned in, or just a reminder to put their backpacks away and sit at their desks.
The second page is the calendar page. You can drag numbers, names of the days and months, and icons for the day, the date, the month, and the weather.
The next two days are to count the days of school. The first o
Grades:
K - 4th
Number the Stars - Smartboard Literature Unit
This unit introduces students to the historical background related to the holocaust that surrounds the story of Number the Stars. It includes a history lesson, journal and research activities, background information for each chapter, comprehension questions, and post-reading review activities.
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4th - 9th
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European Exploration in America
An interactive white board unit on European Exploration including 6 explorers (Cabot, Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Hudson, Cartier, Balboa) covering all 4th grade GPS for exploration. Including vocabulary activities, interactive maps, hands on activities, videos, and more.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Greece Jeopardy Game
This is a jeopardy game played on the Smart board to review the influence Greece had on the United States. Two teams play against each other. All the questions are multiple choice. The categories include location, architecture, government, sports, and more.
While all of the questions and answers are filled in for you, you may change the Smart board file to fit more to your classroom if you need to.
**Directly aligned to Georgia Social Studies Standards.
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Christopher Columbus and October 12th
This presentation is not only about Columbus, but also about how many Spanish speaking countries are there in the world, and other essential questions surrounding October 12th. It motivates the students to figure out the answer to these questions by involving critical thinking, and the use of cultural comparisons. It also has engaging activities that will have students wanting to know more! It includes links to videos and teacher's notes. In Spanish, with more extensive explanations in English.
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Habits of Mind
This SMART Notebook file was designed to be used with classroom Smartboards. The file contains 9 slides that introduce the "Habits of Mind" I use in my classroom to help children become better thinkers and better people. These habits include Judgment, Thoughtfulness, Craftsmanship, Openness, Connections, Viewpoint, Relevance, Evidence, and Bias. Each slide includes a specific Habit of Mind, a simple definition of the word, a sentence demonstrating the meaning of the word, a short list of related
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Addition and Subtraction Strategies
This smartboard covers the different strategies we teach for addition and subtraction. It gives several examples for each strategy using a gradual release - teacher models and then students do.
Addition Strategies covered:
Counting up on a hundreds chart
Breaking one number apart
Expanded Form Addition
Counting up on a number line.
Subtraction Strategies covered:
Counting up/down on a number line.
Breaking one number apart
Expanded Form Subtraction
Counting up on a number line
Counting down on a
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Critical Thinking: Crossword - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7VZogaRzSI
In this crossword mini, 18 vocabulary words are provided with across and down clues. This mini is great for vocabulary and comprehending all the words centered around the vocabulary in the Critical Thinking lesson plan. Vocabulary Words include: anticipate, attributes, brainstorm, conclusion, consequences, critical, evaluate, facts, independent,
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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History of Australia's National Anthem - Advance Australia Fair
This is a Smart Notebook file that forms a lesson on the History of Australia's National Anthem - Advance Australia Fair. It was originally made for a special needs class but can easily be used for a class of nearly any age or ability. It includes links to videos and a worksheet to be completed at the end to summarise the lesson.
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Odd vs. Even Higher Thinking
After students understand the concept of odd and even, use this SmartBoard Notebook to help students think about these numbers in a different way. There are odd and even mazes, guess my number, and a math journal entry.
The "can you guess my number" game has the student paper in the attachments tab.
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Ohio Industries in the 1800s using Smart Board
This set on Ohio Industries highlights Cincinnati, Cleveland, Akron, Zanesville plus the gristmill in Clifton. I have done a Smart Board "Keyword Match" using this vocabulary: manufacturing, land, labor, factors of production, and entrepreneurship. One page highlights Obed Hussey and the reaper. One looks at glassworks in Zanesville. One focuses on Cincinnati including meatpacking industry and Procter and Gamble. Akron looks at the impact of Benjamin Goodrich and the tire industry. Cl
Grades:
4th
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Character Change
This lesson takes your students, step-by-step through how the character changes. Students look back in the text and search for the BEST evidence to support how the character was feeling in the beginning, turning point, and how they changed at the end.
-Bell Ringer: Character Traits
-Objectives as I Can statements
-Modeling
-Collaborative Discussion
-Independent Work
-Pocket chart organizer
-Closure: Did we...statements
-Exit Ticket
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Discovery and Inquiry Learning Strategy SmartBoard Lesson
Want to train your students for hands-on, discovery learning? This is an incredibly fun, engaging way to introduce students to the four basic steps in inquiry learning. It uses Greg Tang's Grapes of Math patterns and poems to train students to think of a viable strategy, commit it to paper, share it with others, then reflect on their strategies and the strategies of others to revise their thinking. It is a great way to introduce and use the eight Common Core math practices needed for all effec
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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