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5th grade critical thinking astronomy resources for SMART Notebook
Space Unit - Instructional Smartboard Lesson - VA SOLs 4.7 & 4.8
Updated November 2015!! This SMARTboard lesson is a 24 page instructional unit lesson that covers all of the Virginia fourth grade SOLs for Space. This lessons focuses on:
1 - -Changes in Our Understanding of the Universe/Solar System - Geocentric vs. Heliocentric (Earth Centered vs. Sun Centered) - Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, & Galileo & our modern understanding of the Universe
2 - Our Solar System - Our Sun, Planets, Moons, Inner & Outer (Terrestrial/Gas Giants) Planets
3 -
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Grades:
4th - 10th
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Living Systems SMARTboard Lesson - Animals/Ecosystems VA SOL 4.5
This lesson is a 13 page instructional SMARTboard lesson about Living Systems. It contains tons of video clips and internet links as well as interactive parts for the SMARTboard. It covers all of the 4th grade Virginia SOLs for the Living Systems Unit (VA SOL 4.5) Topics include:
1 - Defining: Ecosystems, Populations, Communities, Habitats
2 - How Organisms interact with their habitats
3 - How Organisms ADAPT - including Structural Adaptations & Behavioral Adaptations
4 - Producers, Con
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3rd - 8th
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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
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
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K - 5th, Staff
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Gravity Smartboard Lesson
This Smartboard presentation can be used to teach gravity to students in grades 4-8. The lesson includes the following:
1) A KWL chart about gravity
2) An explanation about the difference between mass and weight
3) A 10 question quiz
4) A mass and weight comparison activity
5) Notes on the difference between mass and weight
6) Pictures of instruments that measure mass and weight
7) How to calculate surface gravity on other planets
8) An activity requiring students to put the surface gravity of
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Earth's Rotation and Revolution
Lesson with notes and videos to help students understand Earth's rotation and revolution. Help students define orbit, rotation, revolution, ellipse, and axis. Teaches how to diagram a planets orbit. Explains which words determine year and day. Lesson has a mix of videos, notes, and exit slip.
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4th - 8th
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Introduction to our Solar System Smartboard
This 42 slide smartboard lesson gives an overview of all the planets in our solar system, as well as the sun and the moon. This lesson also includes review and discussion questions at the end!
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2nd - 6th
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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
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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
Earth, Sun, and Shadows - Smartboard Lesson
This 14 slide smartboard lesson introduces shadows and includes review questions at the end.
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2nd - 5th
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Social Justice S.L.A.M. Reading Response Unit, Smartboard & PDF
A BEST seller!
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Recently updated to include BOTH SMARTboard presentation and PDF unit handouts.
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About the Unit:
As teachers we have many jobs! One is to teach and prepare our students, and the other is to inspire! Too often the second is put aside, as we get our students ready for standardized testing. I design
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Internet Hoaxes, Viral Emails, Viral Videos
This notebook file contains examples of true and hoax viral emails and viral videos as well as resources and guidelines for evaluating them. It is designed to give students the tools to evaluate them.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Compare the Sun, Earth, and Moon - Smartboard
This 27 slide smartboard lesson gives lets students compare the sun, the earth, and the moon in terms of size, surface type, and atmosphere. This lesson also includes beginning focus questions, as well as review and discussion questions at the end!
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2nd - 5th
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SMART board - Our Solar System!
Awesome SMART board presentation on our solar system!
-first slide, click on picture of planets for a video link
-interactive
-fun
-engaging
-motivating
-cooperative learning
-timers
-etc!
Your students will love learning about our solar system!
Enjoy! Emily Jo
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Introduction to the Universe - NOTEBOOK Gr. 5-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
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This is a Chapter Mini. It is just one chapter from the full lesson plan Galaxies & the Universe - NOTEBOOK Gr. 5-8.
About this Resource:
For understanding Introduction to the Universe of Galaxies & The Universe, this chapter mini provides curriculum-based content in the form of reading passages, before you read and after you read questions. Also included are printables, vocabulary flash cards, video, audio and int
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Introductory Activity to Space Units - Smartboard
If you are starting a new unit on space and need an activity to get students excited about it, then this activity is for you! This Smartboard presentation takes students through a series of ten pictures. Each picture has a question attached to it. As you show a picture, have students answer the question in their science groups on a looseleaf sheet of paper. Leave each picture up on the Smartboard for about two minutes each. The whole activity should take about two science classes (two 40 minute
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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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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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3rd - 5th
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Animated Rocket/Space theme Attendance for smartboard
This ANIMATED Rocket Attendance file will amaze your students as they tap their name to ignite their rockets and tap again to launch their rocket into an animated space background. This program is easy and ready to program with your students names. A great way to motivate your students and blast off to a good day!
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Grades:
K - 5th
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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