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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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Grades:
K - 6th
Veterans' Day PowerPoint - Mini Book Slides, Songs, Poems & Vocabulary Slides
Teach young learners about Veterans Day with this PowerPoint Presentation containing both levels of my mini books, as well as animated illustrated vocabulary slides. Poems and songs are also included!❤️ This presentation may be used with or without the products from which it was created. I have included in the PowerPoint:✅ Both levels of the Veterans Day mini books are included as slides✅ I added a page for each branch of the Armed Forces as well. ✅ There are animated illustrated voca
Grades:
K - 1st
Music Showdown - Canadian Hit Songs
NEW: This is the project I use with my grade 5 arts education students in Saskatchewan. Applies to SK ED's Critical Responsive outcome 5.2 (Respond critically and creatively to a variety of pop culture expressions). Simply make a copy of the entire slide presentation, save it to your files under a new name and enjoy the hyperlinked activity! I let me students work in their sketchbooks while listening to these 16 classic Canadian tunes. After each paired showdown, students vote on the winner.
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4th - 7th
10 South Carolina History Songs for Third Grade
I've added a smartboard file of all the songs that includes a recording of me "singing" the song. I hope this helps you in teaching these to your kiddos!
10 Teacher created "piggyback" song lyrics about SC history set to familiar tunes. I taught 3rd grade for 7 years in a title 1 school, and by using these songs I was able to help 90% of my students achieve basic or above on the PASS test each year. Music and singing are very strong mneumonic devices and I heard many students humming the songs
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3rd
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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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CHINESE NEW YEAR - GONG XI - Smartboard - Ti pitch, TimKa rhythm, Instruments
This 19 page interactive lesson covers the background behind Chinese New Year, offers colorful photos, interactive maps and explanations, as well as Dragon Dance Music and the song Gong Xi. RHYTHMS IN THE SONG ARE: ta, titi,and tim ka. MELODY IN THE SONG ARE: low la, low ti, do, re, mi, fa.
HERE IS WHAT YOU GET:
*BACKGROUND (9 pages) including colorful photos and explanations of the holiday.
**DRAGON DANCE MUSIC (2 pages) for both the younger children and older. The younger child's page has n
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Grades:
K - 5th
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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European Explorers Say What Virginia SOL 3.3
This interactive smart notebook is designed to help all students master the VA Social Studies SOL's on European Explorers. This interactive notebook is designed with numerous activities. There are songs to help the children learn each explorer and music as well. There is also fun review games. Any 3rd grade student will be able to master their Explorers by using this activity!
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3rd
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BACH - Little Fugue in G Minor- Prepare/Present TAM TI- Smartfile- Interactive
Brought to you by Kodaly Music With Mrs Perry, this gem is perfect for preparing and presenting the rhythm Tam Ti. It is also VERY friendly to teaching the concept of a fugue. Read on to see what you get:
*14 pages of material
*Portrait of JS Bach
*Background information page about JS Bach
*Interactive maps showing where Bach was from
*Photos of contemporary organ, Baroque organ, Bach's church, original manuscript
*Prepare page for Tam Ti with interactive icons. Find the new long - short symbol
Grades:
4th - 6th
Teacher Created Explorer Songs
I have found that "singing the standards" really helps my kiddos remember all the things they need to know. They LOVE it! We make up movements together and sing them to start our history lesson each day. You can also use them to review for tests and as shared reading in your class.
South Carolina 4th grade Standards Covered:
Land bridge theory
Early Explorers
Inventions that helped the Age of Exploration
Includes:
3 Smartboard files with lyrics and my "voice" singing
3 Word document
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3rd - 5th
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'AUSTRALIA' (Grades 3-7) ~ Curriculum Song Video
‘AUSTRALIA’ (Middle/Upper Primary), is a professionally produced, curriculum-aligned song that discusses such things as states, capital cities, seas, islands, rivers, significant places, sites & environments, Aboriginal place names, etc.MP4 song & lyrics video ~ students READ / SING & LEARN along as the curriculum-aligned song plays, and lyrics and images display on your classroom whiteboard and other technological devices! *View a Grade 3 assembly performance videoN.B: To celebrate
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3rd - 7th
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.
Grades:
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
TONGO ~ Polynesian Folk Song~ Timka~ Low so~ Pentatonic~SMARTboard
Brought to you by Kodaly Music with Mrs Perry, this fun 'echo' song is great for teaching low so or timka. Included are 10 pages that allow you to teach one or the other. Read on to see what you get with this purchase:
*BACKGROUND - The name "tongo" is explained, as is what a mangrove is, as well as it's importance.
*MAPS - There are 4 clickable maps that zoom in on the Solomon Islands, Polynesia, where this song is from. You can relocate the star to indicate your school's location.
*PREP
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3rd - 6th
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Learn the Continents & Oceans
This 5 page NOTEBOOK document for SMART boards is an excellent and proven way to teach and assess student knowledge of the Continents & Oceans. The file includes classification of the Continents & Oceans, labeling maps with Continents & Oceans, and Songs to help learn the Continents & Oceans, as well as assessments for knowing the Continents & Oceans that can be used on all levels of ability.
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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
Grades:
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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