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High school science activities for SMART Notebook
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
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
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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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
Scientific Method & Inquiry SMARTboard Lesson
This is a 24 page instructional SMARTboard lesson on the subject of Scientific Method & Inquiry. It is full of interactive parts, pictures, and video clips. This lesson coordinates with my Scientific Inquiry SMARTboard lesson also featured here on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Topics covered in this unit lesson:
*What is Science?
*What is a Scientist?
*Scientific Method
*Quantitative vs. Qualitative Observations
*Formulating Questions
*Developing a Hypothesis
*Designing an Experiment
*Collect
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2nd - 9th
6 Investigations: How does learning happen? (Based on Brain Rules!)
During the first week of school, before I start digging into inquiry, I like to illuminate how I use brain research in my teaching-- no matter what content or process is. The easiest way to show students the rationale behind everything from homework to dancing about chromosomes is to prove it to them.
John Medina wrote a book entitled "Brain Rules" that serves as the basis for this series of investigations. Within each investigation, we explore the inquiry process, look at data from Medina's we
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6th - 9th
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
Cell Unit Review Jeopardy Game, Middle School Science, Life science, 6-8 Science
This is a smart notebook format jeopardy game of Cell unit.
It is good for unit review and no prep days:)
In the preview document you'll see only 2 questions.
The Categories in this game;
The Characteristics of Cells
Chemistry of Life
Cell Structure and Function
Levels of Cellular Organization
Cell Processes
Have fun!
Thank you for downloading.
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5th - 12th
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
Molecule Construction
Hands on activity to practice constructing molecules, identifying element names and number of atoms in a chemical formula. Students can create the molucules using a molecule construction kit, candy dots and toothpicks, or just draw in notebook. This lesson allows students to show answers on the smartboard.
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3rd - 9th
Use Candy to Balance Chemical Equations - SMART Board Presentation
Use this SMART Board presentation with the "Using Candy to Balance Chemical Equations" activity (link below) or by itself to give students a visual representation of balancing chemical equations.
Using Candy to Balance Chemical Equations: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Use-Candy-to-Balance-Chemical-Equations-2442094
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7th - 12th
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
BIOLOGY - SMART Notebook - Protein Synthesis with Dino DNA
This SMART Notebook activity involves translating DNA strands, from the book Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, into a polypetide chain for protein synthesis. The notebook lesson includes three student worksheets, an amino acid chain and an mRNA decoding wheel.
Students can translate and transcribe a forty amino acid polypetide segment of DINO DNA.
This work by SMARTERTEACHER is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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9th - 12th
SMARTBOARD lesson on inherited traits and heredity
This smartboard lesson showcases how to track dominant and recessive traits in plants and animals. It also hits on common dominants and recessive traits in humans, so students can search for them in their classmates as a lab exploration.
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
SMARTBOARD lesson on plant and animal cells
This smartboard lesson showcases how the human body is organized from cells to tissues, to organs, to organ systems to bodies. It also discusses the structures within plant and animal cells, comparing them to each other and to the organs of the human body.
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Scientific Method Review & Graphing Practice - Living Environment- (Notebook 11)
This product contains 30 slides reviewing Graphing and the Scientific Method. There is enough work to keep your students busy for three hours! Just open and start teaching. You will find interactive activities, Regents questions (with answers). 5 graphs (with answers), and a study guide with questions and answers. (To show your students the answers, just click on the lines and the answers will fade in.) *This lesson was designed with a lot of visuals and scaffolding techniques in order to help E
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7th - 12th
SMARTBOARD lesson on atoms, elements, and basic chemistry
This smartboard lesson showcases how atoms are structured, as well as explains how some atoms like to share electrons to fill their levels or shells. It's kid-friendly and a quick approach to compounds and molecules.
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
SmartBoard Jeopardy Game with questions
This is a Jeopardy game in smart notebook format. The game has five categories; LA, Math, Social Studies, Science and Miscellaneous. There are five questions in each categories. Questions are from 4-8 grade curriculums and editable. This Jeopardy game can also be used as a template.
The game template was prepared either full screen view or page width view.
This is a good school wide or class wide activity. The Game board is designed up to three teams. Once clicked on the question the answer is o
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4th - 9th
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
Popcorn Game - Template
This file contains Popcorn Game Template which has 16 open ended questions (blank questions for now). The game is played using Koosh ball or Softball.
If you purchase, please leave feedback!
Enjoy!!!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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