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6th 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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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.
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3rd - 12th
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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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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
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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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
Introduction to the Universe - NOTEBOOK Gr. 5-8
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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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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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Sun's Energy- Smartboard
This 16 slide smartboard lesson gives an introduction to the sun and how the sun's energy impacts living things. This lesson also includes review and discussion questions at the end!
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3rd - 6th
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Solar System: Constellations & Legends - NOTEBOOK Gr. 5-8
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This is a Interactive Mini. It is just one activity from the full lesson plan Solar System - NOTEBOOK Gr. 5-8.
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In this Constellations & Legends mini, students will learn about the origin and legends of 15 constellations found in the northern and southern hemispheres. Students touch a constellation to reveal and image, the origin, and the legend surrounding it.
Our content meets your State Standar
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5th - 8th
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SMARTBOARD lesson on earth, the moon, and the solar system
This smartboard lesson showcases our solar system and how the sun is responsible for much of our lives. It includes the following:
Why do we have seasons?
Why do we have day and night?
What are equinoxes and solstices?
How does latitude affect seasons?
What are the planets?
What are the types of planets?
What planets have moons?
What are some facts about the planets?
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Critical Thinking: Crossword - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
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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,
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3rd - 7th
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Moon Vocabulary Activity- NOTEBOOK- Ask an Astronaut
Vocabulary, Moon, The Moon, moon phases, Phases of the Moon, lunar phases, lunar cycle, Notebook, waxing, waning, gibbous, crescent, new moon, full moon, tides, crust, mantle, core, crater, and maria
This product will allow you to get the repetition needed to learn new vocabulary related to the Moon. Instead of the same old "drill and kill" teach/review the material in a different, fun and interesting way. This activity is a great way to engage those kinesthetic learners (especially if you have
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4th - 10th
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Space Technology Notes
A smartboard presentation to teach how space technology has evolved. Cover what technology is used such as, space probe, satellite, telescope, etc. There are notes, pictures, and video clips for each type of manned and unmanned technology.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Moon Lesson - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation effectively explains the different phases of the moon. It includes the following:
1) Pictures of the moon's location around the Earth during it's various phases
2) The names/pictures of each moon phase and definitions of each
3) A link to a two minute youtube video that explains the terms waxing and waning
4) An activity where you drag each moon to the correct phase (either waxing or waning)
5) A "group the phases" activity
6) A phases of the moon assessment
Please
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Space Travel & Technology: Memory Match Game - NOTEBOOK Gr. 5-8
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This is a Memory Match Game Mini. It is just one activity from the full lesson plan Space Travel & Technology - NOTEBOOK Gr. 5-8.
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In this memory match game, 6 matching pairs of spacecrafts are hidden in the puzzle. For middle school, this mini is great for comprehending the 6 spacecrafts covered in the topic of Space Travel & Technology.
Our content meets your State Standards and are written t
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5th - 8th
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