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2nd grade social studies song interactive whiteboards
The Story of Jamestown Powerpoint
This powerpoint summarizes the story of Jamestown, the first English colony. My students love reading along and clicking through the colorful pictures illustrating the story.
The words are lyrics to accompany the song Jamestown, Virginia by Classroom Classics, but the powerpoint can be used with or without the music.
Hope you enjoy!
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K - 6th
Rural, Urban, Suburban Poems (Smart Notebook File)
This Smart Notebook file includes three poems to help students remember the challenging vocabulary of: suburban, rural, and urban. Three of the slides have images to make a visual connection to the poem and the vocabulary. Each also has just the image with no poem to encourage students to say the poem without the words!
In my classroom, we add motions and expression as we read them! When it says "horns honking all night," you better believe that all the students are honking horns!
Anyway,
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PreK - 3rd
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Cowboy Tunes & Songs from the Westward Expansion - SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.
It's finally here!! Mrs. Kuchta's Corner, An Elementary Music Wonderland presents to you this fantastic collection of famous historical American cowboy tunes and westward expansion songs that we all know and LOVE to sing. This collection is a GREAT addition to your elementary music classroom library and can also be a fantastic cross-curricular aide to add to any regular elementary classroom teacher's library as well to help supplement your American History units of study. Lyrics and melodic n
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K - 8th
Dinosaurs and Paleontology
Students place the steps of uncovering a fossil find in the correct order on the first slide. On the second slide, students discover different kinds of fossils by touching a dinosaur. The dinosaur will disappear and reveal a type of fossil. On the third slide, there is a link to a very cute palentologist song. My students absolutely love this song!! Very cute!
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PreK - 2nd
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The Seven Continents (Interactive Video and Song)
The perfect complement to your geography or map skills unit, this lively song/video will have your students engaged and identifying the names and locations of the seven continents. The Seven Continents has been utilized by elementary teachers across grade levels with great success! The only problem is that it's so catchy, students will be singing it everywhere they go!
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K - 4th
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Holidays Around the World song and music
For ActivInspire software: This Promethean flipchart contains the music and lyrics to the song "It's a Holiday." The song includes 3 verses, each followed by a chorus. The first 7 pages divide the song into sections and provide piano and vocal accompaniment to allow students to practice. (Note: The vocal accompaniment is provided by a group of my 2nd-graders.) The last page provides piano-only accompaniment that can be used once students have learned the song and for performances. "It's a Holida
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2nd - 3rd
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Native American Songs Say What? Virginia SOL 2.2
Three fun songs to get your students to master all 3 Native American Tribe.
Powhatan, Pueblo, and Lakota
Student will be actively engaged singing these sons. ALL STUDENTS will love these songs. There are also two review games included in the last two slide.
Students will comment to you, that they can't get the song out of their heads. Music is included (pardon my singing) Some of the songs are my actual voice without music. I can add the music to those slides if you wish.
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K - 4th
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Famous American's Say What Virginia SOL 3.11
This is 7 slides full of Famous Americans that we have to teach in 3rd grade in Virginia.George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington Carver, Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez. Have fun teaching these famous Americans with fun songs. Tests, quizzes, and study guides are included as well.
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PreK - 3rd
Mimio Consumers & Producers Activity with Song
This Mimio lesson introduces students to the consumers and producers unit with slides that provide the definitions, a great song with music and lyrics, and four sort activities that include 64 objects that can be sorted as either a consumer or a producer.
The song is to the tune "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" and the music is a pop version popularized by the Beatles. The first stanza is similar to the older version and the second stanza rocks! It was a huge hit with 2nd graders.
The song i
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1st - 4th
"Being Polite" a character trait
This is a power point to show what the character trait politeness means. I have included the lyrics of the song of being polite. I can easily email you the lyrics if you need them. Please enjoy this and my honesty along with sharing power point. I have created a series of 3 so far.
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K - 3rd
Also included in: Ten character traits Bundle
Apple Songs and Poems (SMARTBoard Notebook)
Here is a collection of 7 Apple Songs and Poems for your class to enjoy.
Away Up High in an Apple Tree
God Gives Us Apples on a Tree
I Love Red Apples
The Lord Is Good To Me
I'm a Little Apple
Up In the Apple Tree
Apples
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PreK - 2nd
Morning Meeting
A seven slide morning meeting presentation designed for use with Smart Notebook and Smart Board products. Slide 1 includes a welcome page, good morning song links, and a drag &drop attendance. Slide 2 includes a monthly calendar, months of the year song link, days of the week song link, and sign language day of the week link. Slide 3 includes various weather song links. Slide 4 includes an interactive "What to Wear" weather bear. Slide 5 is a link to a sign language alphabet song. Slid
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PreK - 3rd
Black History: The Reconstruction
Video Version: https://youtu.be/es719h0Wf8EMuch of the Southern United States was destroyed during the Civil war. Farms and plantations were burned down and their crops destroyed. Also, many people had Confederate money which was now worthless and the local governments were in disarray. The South needed to be rebuilt. The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War is called the Reconstruction. The Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877. The purpose of the Reconstruction was to help the South b
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2nd - 6th
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Latino Culture: Latin America
Video version: https://youtu.be/EFo0VKfhj60Latin America is a region made up of Mexico, Central America, and South America. Some of the islands of the West Indies, in the Caribbean Sea, also are included. The area is known as Latin America because most people speak languages that came from Latin (the language of the ancient Romans). These languages include Spanish, Portuguese, and French.Many Latin Americans have a mixture of American Indian, European, and African ancestry. Most people speak Sp
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1st - 5th
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Black History: Harriet Tubman
Video Version: https://youtu.be/kHxfXlfXUJ8Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement
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2nd - 6th
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Black History: Beginnings of Slavery
Video version: https://youtu.be/XZR7ruZfifMMost groups that immigrate to the United States leave their homeland in search of a better life. African Americans are the only ethnic group whose ancestors were brought her against their will.White colonists bought them as if they were property. Then they transported them to the New World.Whether traded by enemy tribes or kidnapped by European raiders, Africans were herded into slave camps on the West coast of Africa starting in the 1500’s.
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2nd - 6th
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Black History: The Harlem Renaissance
Video version: https://youtu.be/lhER1OOpzVIThe Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. The movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected by the Great Migration, of which Harlem was t
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2nd - 6th
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Latino Culture: Panama
Video version: https://youtu.be/ptYZAtyCCHkAl tambor, al tambor, al tamborde la a- le -griaYo quiero que tu me llevesAl tambor de la a - le- griaPlay the drum, play the drumPlay the drum from PanamaC’mon let’s play the drumTum, tum, tum, la, la, la, la, laPanama is located in Central America. It is a narrow land bridge, or isthmus, connecting North and South America. Panama is slightly smaller than South Carolina.Their main language is Spanish.The national traditional dress for women is a long,
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1st - 5th
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Black History: Ida B Wells
Video Version: https://youtu.be/6v2OM7IkWNYIda Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, especially that of women, Wells arguably became the most famous black woma
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2nd - 6th
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Black History: James Weldon Johnson
Video version: https://youtu.be/F1i_1aQv-bMJames Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rightsactivist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. In 1920, he was the first African American to be chosen as executive secretary of the organization, effectively the operating officer. He served in that position fro
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2nd - 6th
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Black History: Civil Rights
Video Version: https://youtu.be/enx5LQYqZ3YSong: We Shall Overcome Civil rights are basic rights that every citizen has under the laws of the government. In the United States the civil rights of each individual citizen are protected by the Constitution. Civil rights for every person means that regardless of gender, skin color, religion, nationality, age, disability, or religion, a person should not be discriminated against. Civil rights include the right to free speech, privacy, religion, assem
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1st - 5th
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Black History: African American Pioneers of Science
Video version: https://youtu.be/7DM8FMia0XgScientists, engineers, and inventors find the solutions to the world's problems. Learn about the work that these Black scientists and inventors have accomplished that make our lives better.George Washington CarverDorothy Johnson VaughanMark E DeanMae C JohnsonPercy L JulianSarah Breedlove WalkerGarrett MorganThurgood MarshalSarah Goode
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2nd - 6th
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Latino Culture: Mexico
Video Version: https://youtu.be/eulm-tV7llAEl ChocolateUno, dos, tres, ChoUno, dos, tres, COUno, dos, tres, LAUno, dos, tres,TeChocolate,Chocolate, bate, bate el ChocolateMexico is a land of extremes, with high mountains and deep canyons in the center of the country, sweeping deserts in the north, and dense rain forests in the south and east.Few nations on Earth support as many plant and animal species as Mexico does. Located partway between the Equator and the Arctic Circle, it is a refuge for
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1st - 5th
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Black History: Jackie Robinson
Video version: https://youtu.be/u9X2luSBnJcJack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson w
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