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8th grade science resources for SMART Notebook
Virginia's Natural Resources SMARTboard Unit Lesson - VA SOL 4.8
Updated September 2015 - New links added!
This is an 18 page instructional unit SMARTboard about Virginia's Natural Resources. It covers all of the Science VA SOL's for this topic for fourth grade. (VA SOL 4.8) It contains tons of interactive elements, video clips, & games.
Topics include: Natural Resources, Human Resources, Capital Resources, Water Resources - groundwater, reservoirs, oceans, bays, rivers, & lakes, watersheds, Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Atlantic Ocean, Animal Res
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3rd - 8th
ZONK Monsters Review Game (SmartBoard)
Zonk is a FUN review game that can be used for all grades and all subjects! One of the best things about ZONK is that it is a game based not only knowledge, but luck as well! This keeps the students interested and those who may not know the answers are still engaged and have an opportunity to score points!
You can break the students up into groups or have them play as individuals. If playing with groups, establish your rules from the start. I typically tell the students that the person who
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K - 12th
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AWESOME MONSTEROPOLY SMART BOARD REVIEW GAME TEMPLATE
Are your students tired of playing BORING review games to prepare for assessments? Undoubtedly, your answer must be YES! Well, here's A SMART Board review game template that your students are sure to beg you to let them play. The MONSTEROPOLY SMART BOARD REVIEW GAME TEMPLATE allows your class to review as many questions as you want while playing a MONOPOLY-like game that includes crazy stunts and monster money. The main board slide on the SMART Board presentation has moving animated monsters
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2nd - 12th, Staff
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Hallowe'en Science Experiments/Activities
Four exciting, hands-on and engaging Hallowe'en 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! This file also links to two videos on YouTube demonstrating the experiment.
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PreK - 8th
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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Mendelian Genetics Unit: Lesson 7: Your Monster and Punnet Squares
Now that students know how to set up Punnet squares and predict future genotypes and phenotypes, have them do the same with their monsters!
Students will pick a partner in class, and their two monsters will fall in love and have many monster babies! Students will select traits, and will create 10 punnets squares that will show the possible outcomes for four different babies.
Finally, students will put together a packet with their adult monsters (illustrated with their genotypes and phenotypes
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6th - 8th
Weather SMARTboard Instructional Lesson - 26 Pages-Clips & Interactive
This SMARTboard lesson is a 26 page instructional lesson for my 4th grade Virginia Science SOL Weather Unit. It covers all of the Virginia 4th grade Science SOLs for Weather. It contains tons of video clips & interactive activities! (Twenty web links in all!) Topics included are: The Water Cycle, Types of Clouds (Cumulus, Cirrus, Stratus, & Cumulonimbus), Types of Precipitation (Rain, Snow, Sleet, Freezing Rain, & Hail),
Weather Instruments (Thermometers & Temperature, Anemo
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3rd - 8th
Mink Dissection
This is the presentation I created to help my students through each major step of a mink dissection.
While the presentation came in handy, I also modeled each step for them, but tried not to show them TOO much as I went-- there's something great in the discovery being theirs.
As they started opening each mink, I would call them back, show more pictures on the board, or model through mine a bit more, quizzing as I went.
(The first day is the toughest as students have to find the trachea and e
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6th - 9th
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Plants Interactive SMARTboard Lesson - VA 4th Grade Science SOL Unit
This is a unit SMARTboard lesson covering Plants. It has interactive features, animations, and video clips. This lesson covers all of the VA SOLs for 4th grade about plants. Topics include: Plant parts & functions (roots, stems, leaves, flowers), Flower parts (Petals, Sepal, Pistil - Style, Stigma, Ovary, Stamen - Anther, Filament, Pollen, Pollination, Spore Reproduction, Photosynthesis, Plant Adaptations, Plant Dormancy.
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3rd - 8th
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Electricity SMARTboard Unit Lesson - VA SOL 4.3
This 20 page Instructional Unit SMARTboard Lesson teaches kids all about Electricity. It follows the Virginia 4th grade SOL requirements for Electricity (VA SOL 4.3), but would be appropriate for grades 3-8. This lesson is FUN - with TONS of web links and interactive parts. My students LOVE this SMARTboard! It takes about 1-2 weeks to complete, and I use it in conjunction with my Electricity Interactive Notebook, also featured here on TPT. If you're teaching 4th grade science in Virginia, t
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3rd - 9th
SmartNotebook Hangman Game
Fun and easy classroom activity for any age student to use the SmartBoard and participate in the game.
Easy as 1) download, 2) open and 3) play.
This SmartNotebook file includes 2 pages "hangman boards" - 1 with female student and 1 with a male student.
Check out our other SmartNotebook Games & Templates:
SmartBoard Checkers Game
Connect 4 Gameboard
Crossword Gameboard Template
Magic Words Teacher Template
Free Sudoku Math Template
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1st - 12th
Smart STEM Tallest Christmas Tree
Tis the season for holiday STEM! Here is a SmartBoard activity that I made for a 2nd grade class. This Smart has directions, materials, charts and timers for the activity. Students are to build the tallest Christmas tree that they can in 15 minutes. At the beginning, I have the jobs broken down. For my class, I will not assign specific jobs, but for some classes it could be needed. For older grades, have the students graph their data they collected.
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1st - 8th
Jeopardy Game Template for SMART Notebook
Do you want to create your own Jeopardy games, but don't have the time? Now with this neatly designed, bright and colorful template you can create Jeopardy style games for your classroom in a snap! Just add your own categories, questions, answers, and save it! Create as many different jeopardy games as you like.
The scoreboard arrows keep score by the hundreds for up to 4 teams. This Smart Notebook file contains 54 pages: 25 question pages, 25 answer pages, a game board, a scoreboard, and ins
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Force & Motion SMARTboard Unit - VA SOLs
This ten page instructional SMARTboard covers all of the 4th grade VA Science SOLs on the topic of Force and Motion - VA SOL 4.2. It is colorful, well organized, and contains lots of interactive parts including tons of video links. Use this lesson to teach your entire unit!
Topics covered include:
position & location
motion, speed, direction
energy, potential energy, kinetic energy
force, push, pull
friction
inertia
and more!
I also offer an interactive notebook for this unit that c
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3rd - 10th
A WHOLE Year of Science Bell Ringers
This Smart Notebook File contains an entire year of bell ringers (fully editable) with a key. Topics included are: Scientific Inquiry, Lab Tools and Safety, Cells, Rocks and Minerals, Distance and Time, Energy, Matter plus extra bell ringers focusing on Scientific Inquiry. The bell ringers are specifically aligned with sixth grade standards, but could easily be adapted for 5-8. If you don't have access to Smart Notebook, I also have a PDF file.
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5th - 8th
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Wave Interactions - Refraction, Reflection, Diffraction & Interference
A Beginning SMART Notebook Lesson on Wave Interactions with matter including the definitions and differences between reflection, refraction, diffraction and interference. Compares how these differ in mechanical and electromagnetic waves. Includes images, linked video clips, animation and a review science song from YouTube. Must have Smart Notebook software to run.
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5th - 9th
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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Natural Disasters SMART Board Thematic Unit
This is an interactive SMART Board unit with lessons based upon thirteen different types of natural disasters. They are alphabetically sorted from brush fires to tornadoes and tsunamis. It includes creative writing prompts, videos, fact sheets, and how they each relate to and impact humans. It also includes information and lessons for the process of a cumulating event of a Natural Disaster Science Fair in which pairs of students can base their own individuals science experiments on one of the na
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4th - 11th
Mendelian Genetics Unit: Lesson 6: Intro to Punnet Squares
Before students can continue their monster project, they need to learn how to organize information about alleles, and predict future offspring using Punnet squares!
This lesson focuses on how to organize information without a Punnet square, and looks at the pros and cons of solving a different way, then shows the more streamlined Punnet squares with side by side comparisons so students can see the exact same information is in both.
There are levels of practice problems ranging from simple (fil
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6th - 8th
Science Animal Adaptations - Body Parts and Coverings
This is a SMARTboard lesson that reviews the concept of animal adaptations. It focuses specifically on body parts and coverings.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please follow me to keep up with my sales, new resources, and freebies on TpT! Just click the ★ next to my store name.
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3rd - 12th
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Wind and Water Currents and their effect on Weather Patterns-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. understand that wind is the result of unequal heating of Earth’s surface as air moves from areas of high to low pressure,
2. understand how winds and the Coriolis effect influence global circulation patterns and climate,
3. explore surface and deep water currents,
4. identify some of the major water currents of the world,
5. understand how water currents affect weather.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio
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6th - 8th
Plants: Lesson 2: Transpiration & the Xylem
In this lesson, students will take the journey through a plant via the perspective of a water droplet (traveling with a mineral). By reading an adventure-like story and illustrating it, the teacher can easily check for understanding, then later, explain the science behind what is happening.
By using a story instead of a boring text, students are more engaged and visualize processes much better. This then, can provide an excellent foundation for building vocab or understanding larger scientific
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6th - 8th
Smartboard Lesson: Histogram Creation
Smartboard Lesson on How to Create a Histogram by Miss Middle School Teacher
Learning Target: Students will be able to analyze and display data in various ways.
I Can: create and analyze a histogram.
This is a 21 slide lesson introducing students to graphing and graph analysis. The following components are covered in this lesson:
1) What is a histogram?
2) What is the purpose of a histogram?
3) How do I make a histogram? (this takes students through histogram creation using a step-by-step ap
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5th - 10th
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Koosh Ball SMARTboard Game Template
This cupcake-themed SMARTboard game template is a fun way to review for all grades and content areas! Students toss a koosh or soft rubber ball at the board to play the game. Directions are included to easily add your own questions/problems to this template. You must have Smart Notebook software to open this file. *************************************************You may also be interested in these other products:Frog Money Game (Smartboard Game and Task Cards)Pirate’s Treasure Addition Facts (S
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Grades:
K - 8th
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