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Library skills resources for SMART Notebook and for International Baccalaureate
Historical Fiction Genre
This Smartboard lesson is an introduction to the historical fiction genre. It was created for elementary students by a second grade teacher turned elementary library media specialist.
This lesson explains the term genre and describes the characteristics of the historical fiction genre. Students will view several examples of historical fiction texts and will be given a few activities to complete after a historical fiction read aloud.
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1st - 5th
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Library lesson - Alphabetical Order
This SMART Notebook file will help you teach how fiction books are arranged in the library. Students will practice arranging books in alphabetical order. There are four work pages, in which the ordering of books gets more difficult as it goes. This file is editable so you will be easily able to make more pages to fit your lesson needs. Please see my free file "Library lesson - Dewey Decimal System" for an example of how students place books in order. Michele Green
Grades:
1st - 6th
The Big 6 Research Steps
Students are often clueless when it comes to doing a research project. They don't know where to begin or what information they are looking for.
In this Smartboard lesson, students will be introduced to each of the 6 research steps in "The Big 6" model. The steps will be explained as each one is introduced. Then, after an overview of the 6 steps, students will be taken through each of the steps as part of a whole group research activity. This lesson will serve as a way to prepare students
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3rd - 5th
Library lesson - Dewey Decimal System
This SMART Notebook file will assist you in teaching about the Dewey Decimal System. Students will be able to practice ordering non-fiction books. This lesson is editable for your own use.Michele Green
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Introduction to the Encyclopedia
This Smartboard lesson was created by an elementary library media specialist, who was previously a second grade teacher. The lesson was created with students in grades K-4 in mind. Students will be introduced to the encyclopedia as a reference tool. They will learn what an encyclopedia is and what it is used for.
At the end of the lesson, students will be given situations and will have to determine whether or not an encyclopedia could be used to find the information.
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K - 5th
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Las Silabas-SMART Board Activity
This SMART board activity begins with two syllable words, then progresses to words with three syllables. It provides picture support in the beginning. This activity can be used daily to reinforce reading by syllables and to help with fluency for beginning readers.
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PreK - 1st
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Fiction vs. Nonfiction Smart notebook lesson - Elementary Library or ELA class
A quick library or classroom lesson for elementary students. Introduces the concepts of fiction and nonfiction to students, and allows them to sort books into fiction or nonfiction categories.
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K - 2nd
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Book Care Smartboard Sort
This is a SmartBoard activity that reinforces library book care. Students drag the picture to the appropriate category (good book care or bad book care). Great for non readers and readers alike! Quick and easy to use!
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PreK - 2nd
IB Theory of Knowledge - What Knowledge is important?
This exercise ask ToK students to work in groups to design their own IB curriculum. What subjects should be mandatory? What subjects should be optional? Why? All of these prompts are used to help guide students to produce a "new" IBDP curriculum. Groups share their conclusions with the class. The teacher can then discuss with the class the various choices. Why did you choose to make that subject compulsory? Which knowledge is important? What if we disagree about which knowledge is important? The
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11th - 12th
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Dictionary Guide Words
Practice guide words with this Smartboard activity. Students will practice identifying guide words, putting words in ABC order, sorting words to the correct guide word page, and completing a color-by guide word activity. You can also download a Word version of the color by guide word from my store.
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2nd - 4th
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Name that Genre! Smart Notebook Lesson
Am I the only one that loves to review the genres at the beginning of the school year? I think it's a great time to review, and it's always a way to organize our classroom library.
This smart board lesson contains 3 different fiction and non fiction matching activities, and 5 different multiple choice examples.
Pair this with my FREE Genre posters and labels for a great lesson!
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3rd - 6th
Library Draw and Guess Game- Grade K-5
This game can be used in library with students in grades K-5. The content covers library skills and allows students to engage with classmates in an interactive game on the Smart Board.
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K - 5th
Library Bookshelf Attendance on the Smart Board™
This Smart Board™ attendance board works by having the students drag the book with their name to the bookshelf. The books “disappear” when they reach the shelf. Leftovers indicate absentees. It could also be used for students to show when they are done with their work. Great for library classes or any classroom.Includes instructions on adding or deleting students, as well as resetting it for the next day.**This is a file designed for the SMART (brand) Smart Board (not Mimio, Promethean, or Activ
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PreK - 5th
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Introducing the Thesaurus
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This lesson was designed to introduce the thesaurus as a reference tool useful in reading and writing. Students will begin by learning the term: Synonym and will do some whole-group practice with identifying synonyms for words.
Then, the thesaurus will be introduced as a resource for finding synonyms for words. Students will discover that this is especially useful in writing.
At the end of the lesson, students will work as a
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K - 4th
Library lesson - Dictionary
This SMART Notebook file will assist you in teaching about dictionaries. Students manipulate words to the correct locations based on alphabetical order and guide words on pages. The lesson ends with a link out to an online game reinforcing dictionary skills. This lesson is editable. Michele Green
Grades:
1st - 5th
Secondary Website Evaluation
Teach your students the R.O.C.A.A. method when using the internet to research topics. Interactive Smartboard Lesson keeps students engaged and helps them understand what it takes to make a website valid for research.
Grades:
8th - 12th
Guess the Famous Bear
I created this Smartboard file to use during my teddy bear sleepover. Children guess the famous bear that is peeking through the door.
Winnie the Pooh
Berenstain Bears
Gummi Bear
Paddington
Corduroy
3 Little Bears
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PreK - 2nd
IB Theory of Knowledge - Prohibit, Tolerate, Respect Game
A fun way to start teaching Ethics in ToK. Students are given index cards that have the names of various ethically controversial behaviour on them, for example arranged marriages, cloning, homosexuality etc. Students work in groups to place the cards in one of 3 categories - behaviour that is so offensive, it should be prohibited, behaviour that they feel is perhaps is unethical but should be tolerated, and behaviour that is acceptable and should be respected. When the groups are done with their
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11th - 12th
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Dictionary Skills - Alphabetizing - Notebook interactive challenge
This notebook file is suitable when introducing skills to navigate a dictionary easily. Each of the pages introduces an increasingly challenging interactive activity; moving from alphabetizing of simple pictures according to the first letter of its name - through to alphabetizing according to second and third letters when words share same beginnings.
At the end of the notebook file, students will have gained adequate skills to begin navigation of simple student dictionaries. File is 11 pages l
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1st - 3rd
IB Theory of Knowledge - Justifying Knowledge Claims
A series of SmartBoard Notebook slides that are discussion prompts that could be done as small group discussions or as a whole class. The slides take students through the process of justifying knowledge claims. What makes a claim believable? Why do we believe some claims and not others? How do we discover if a claim is false? Easily convertible to PDF format if you choose to use this as a handout.
Grades:
11th - 12th
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Informational Text Features for SmartBoard
A SmartBoard friendly version of my Informational Text Features Notebook.
It includes the following features:
Titles of Books
Title Page
Table of Contents
Headings
Photographs
Labels and Diagrams
Captions
Types of Print
Glossary
Index
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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IB Theory of Knowledge - The Strengths and Weaknesses of Induction
A 3 page SmartBoard Notebook file that contains discussion prompts about induction as a tool of logic and reasoning. The first page asks students to work in groups to identify generalizations that they routinely use in their IB subject classes and to assign some importance to them. Then the second and third slides move to a discussion of why we use inductive thinking (generalizations) and what makes a good (or not so good) generalization. All slides are easily convertible to PDF format if you pr
Grades:
11th - 12th
IB Theory of Knowledge - Degrees of Certainty
An easy, accessible way to start your ToK course. Students view the SmartBoard Notebook file and place the various statements, all of which begin with "I know..." on a "Certainty Graph" ranging from 100% certain to highly doubtful. Students share their choices and must defend them to the class. Students are then asked to discuss what criteria they apply to a knowledge claim to decide its certainty. This could be done as a writing assignment too.Students can do this activity in groups or individu
Grades:
11th - 12th
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IB Theory of Knowledge - History and Inventions
A single-page SmartBoard Notebook file that contains 3 separate discussion prompts asking students to think about, identify and justify their "most historically significant" invention. This could be done as a whole class or in small groups. Students are then asked to discuss the predictability of history vs. the predictability in other natural and human sciences. The file is easily convertible to PDF format if you choose to use it as a hard-copy handout.
Grades:
11th - 12th
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