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High school earth sciences activities for SMART Notebook
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
Rocks & Minerals Unit: Lesson 4: Mineral Identification Investigation!
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Today, we take the level of rigor higher! To review mineral property vocab, students do a quick crossword puzzle, and then read a rap/poem about a girl who'd asked for diamonds but got something questionable. Then, after checking their borax/Epsom salt crystals for the last time, we break out the mineral kits and go to work.
Using the properties they learned about and tested the day or two before, students will identify all of the minerals in their kit cooperatively. When finished, st
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6th - 9th
Rocks & Minerals Unit: Lesson 1: Mineral Relevance
While some students are inherently interested in rocks and minerals (I always get a rock hound or two) most middle schoolers find the topic boring. To start the unit on rocks and minerals, I've designed a whole lesson on mineral relevance so students can see the enormous role they play in our lives.
In this lesson, students experience real minerals through centers, a reading jigsaw, an online interactive and more, and will begin to see that some of the products they use the most (like their ce
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7th - 9th
Weather Review Game
This is a Jeopardy style review game that covers all Virginia 4th Grade Weather SOLs. This is a great way to review with your 4th or 5th graders for the Science SOL! It includes pictures, diagrams, Jeopardy Music, and great questions! Topics are covered in my Weather SMARTboard lesson, also offered on Teachers Pay Teachers!
Have Fun!
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3rd - 9th
Rocks & Minerals Unit: Lesson 3: Mineral Properties
This lesson, designed to take 2-3 90-minute class periods, introduces students to mineral properties through a mystery story. Through a series of hands-on tests (including hardness and streak), categorization activities (including luster), logic puzzles (putting together the hardness scale) and hints given by the story, students gain knowledge and determine if the giant, crystal filled cavern they inadvertently stumbled into is dangerous, can be used for industrial uses, or may be used for beaut
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7th - 9th
Theory of Continental Drift Lesson and Activity
This smart notebook includes a bellwork slide with puzzle pieces, as a lead in to continental drift. It has guiding questions for the students. It then shows all the continents, with markings such as fossils, mountain ranges, glacial striations. The continents are separate pieces and can be moved around and rotated to fit together. The goal is to create Pangea and try to fit the continents together. This is a great station or whole class introduction or summary activity to continental drift
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9th - 10th
Physical Features/Landforms Smartboard Lesson
This Smartboard acitivity teaches students about the different landforms around the world. Students learn the definitions, as well as examples of many landforms. They are able to interact with the lesson on an interactive whiteboard, completing activities such as matching pictures with definitions. It is a great lesson that can be used as an introduction to the topic, review, or assessment.
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3rd - 9th
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
Air Mass Interactive Smartboard Activity
Students will be able to assess their knowledge on Air Masses using this Smartboard Activity.
Students must move the Air Mass types to the correct Source Region. cP, cT, mT, mP, cA.
A great tool for visual & kinesthetic learners.
Student's arms will fall off their body as they volunteer to show their learning.
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5th - 11th
Rocks & Minerals Unit: Lesson 2: Mineral Structures & Composition
This lesson will take at least two 90-minute class periods to execute!
In this lesson, students do everything from building their own marshmallow (and block) models of minerals, to making crystals using Epsom salts or borax and handling geodes. There are embedded video links to cool crystal caves as well as animations of crystal formation. By the end of this lesson, students should not only be excited about minerals, but also be able to explain how the underlying chemical nature of minerals cr
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7th - 9th
Smart Board Interactive Front and Pressure Review
Use this interactive tool to have students move arrows and words to the correct places on 9 different pages of smart board created Fronts and Pressure systems. Slides include Cold Front, Warm Front, Land Breeze, Sea Breeze, Air Masses, Source regions,High Pressure and Low Pressure systems, and Mid-Latitude Cyclone.
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5th - 10th
Solar System Smartboard
This smartboard is a great kickoff of any unit on the Solar System, any grade level. Students can arrange the planets into their correct orientation. A great way to see if students know the layout of the Solar System, as well as that each planet is within it's own orbit.
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1st - 9th
Ecology Review- Jeopardy
This resource is a complete Ecology Review including topics from whom eats who, biomes, everything cycles and random. There are 25 questions with answers. For this to work you click the question once the students have answered. This will bring you to the correct answer and then you click on the home button to bring you back to the jeopardy screen. This is a fun interactive review game that has students engaged.
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7th - 10th
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scientific method metric system 1 vs 100 review game smart board
This is a smart board review game in which I used the ideas of the gameshow "1 vs 100". I pass out small white boards to all students (paper could be used instead) and I choose one person to be the "1" and come to the front of the room. He/she will face the white board and use that area to write the answer. For each question, the entire class has 20 seconds to answer. Once time is up, the students show their answers. Anyone in the class witht he wrong answer, sits out for the rest of the gam
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6th - 10th
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Timezones on Smartboard for Earth Science Regents Class
This is an excellent lesson that I use in my first unit. It is on timezones and takes one 43 minute class period. This lesson is geared toward the Earth Science Regents. There is also a bonus of a worksheet on the last slide.
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7th - 12th
Phases of the Moon Smartboard Activity
Students are able to demonstrate/Teachers are able to assess student's knowledge of the positions of the Earth, Sun & Moon to create each of the Phases of the Moon.
This will be a BIG HIT in your classroom, and student's who are reluctant to learn will become motivated.
Interactive, Motivating, and connected to the Standards.
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6th - 10th
Mohs scale of mineral hardness
Exercise for Mohs scale.
Students are able to order minerals of Mohs scale.
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9th - 12th
Cornell Notes - Earth Science
SmartBoard page. Example of Cornell Notes utilizing Earth Science concepts.
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5th - 10th
Branches of Science
Introduction to the 3 main branches of Science.. Sort game included
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5th - 9th
Mohs scale of mineral hardness
Exercise for Mohs scale.
Students are able to order minerals of Mohs scale.
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9th - 12th
Earth Science Reference Tables
Attached is a Smart Notebook version of the Earth Science Reference Tables.This is 30 pages long as some of the diagrams have been enlarged so they may be easier for students to see on the screen.I hope this helps you!Please consider following me as I am new to TPT and will be adding more content!Educating the World Together!Get Science
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8th - 12th
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