3rd grade critical thinking resources for SMART Notebook

Critical Thinking, Spelling, Vocabulary

Smartboard Color Word Mix Up - 3 Levels

Created by

Leigh Majer

*Updated October 2019 for a fresh new look with the same great activities:) * 3 differentiated and interactive levels with self checking pull tabs *new fonts*updated clip art Looking for students to learn their color words on the Smart Board? This activity can be used Whole Group, Small Group or individually and is a GREAT addition to your literacy stations. My kids LOVE building these words! Differentiation is key to meeting our students' varied needs and this activity will allow for your child

Subjects:

Grades:

PreK - 3rd

Types:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Tools for Common Core

CCSS:

RF.K.3c

, RF.1.3

, RF.2.3

, RF.2.3e

Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Primary/Elementary) by Jennifer A. Gates

Created by

Education Evangelist

Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths? This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart. Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 5th, Staff

Types:

GATE, Interactive Whiteboard

Bats: Informational Text and Fact Or Opinion Sort-Smartboard 11.4-Windows OS

Created by

Smart Lesson Plans 2 Go

IMAGINE the look of wonder on your students’ faces as they read and apply fact/opinion skills while exploring the AMAZING world of bats! This complete unit includes: -Fact/Opinion Introduction and Lessons -KWL Fact Chart -Opinion Graph -Fact/Opinion Sign (signaling) -Factual Informational Text Booklet -Craftivity Bat (to hold booklet) -Real-Life Micro- and Mega- Bat Pictures -Fact/Opinion Sort-Apply Skills -Craftivity Bat Cave for Fact/Opinion Sort -Bat Anatomy-Label Body Parts -Recommended Rea

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Critical Thinking, Informational Text

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Printables

6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)

Created by

Life Long Teacher

This activity encourages critical thinking and higher order questioning by having students write their own 6-word memoir. The lesson is a SMARTboard file, so you can edit it to fit your needs! Started by Ernest Hemingway and popularized in the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning," students will write a story about their lives. The only catch - they can only use 6 words! In my classroom, I had my students draw an illustration to accompany their six word memoir. We bound the memoirs in a boo

Subjects:

Character Education, Creative Writing, Critical Thinking

Grades:

2nd - 12th

Types:

Projects, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

SmartBoard Morning meeting - calendar, counting days, weather tally, skip count

Created by

Joanne McFarland

This 16 page SmartBoard file is for you to use to start your day! The first page is a "Good Morning" page that you can edit to give your students instructions for the day, let them know what is to be turned in, or just a reminder to put their backpacks away and sit at their desks. The second page is the calendar page. You can drag numbers, names of the days and months, and icons for the day, the date, the month, and the weather. The next two days are to count the days of school. The first o

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects

Grades:

K - 4th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

CCSS:

...

Patterns in Skip Counting Full Lesson (Day 2 Smartboard)

Created by

Critical Thinking, Numbers, Writing

This is the second lesson in which students use a hundred chart to analyze patterns in skip counting. This file includes a voice thread in which I explain how I teach the lesson. It also includes Spiral Review, Problem Solving, Mini Lesson, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, and Closure. Analyze Patterns in Skip Counting Day 2 by Lindsay Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Critical Thinking, European History, Spanish

Christopher Columbus and October 12th

Created by

Aprender es divertido

This presentation is not only about Columbus, but also about how many Spanish speaking countries are there in the world, and other essential questions surrounding October 12th. It motivates the students to figure out the answer to these questions by involving critical thinking, and the use of cultural comparisons. It also has engaging activities that will have students wanting to know more! It includes links to videos and teacher's notes. In Spanish, with more extensive explanations in English.

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects

Habits of Mind

Created by

Steve Reifman

This SMART Notebook file was designed to be used with classroom Smartboards. The file contains 9 slides that introduce the "Habits of Mind" I use in my classroom to help children become better thinkers and better people. These habits include Judgment, Thoughtfulness, Craftsmanship, Openness, Connections, Viewpoint, Relevance, Evidence, and Bias. Each slide includes a specific Habit of Mind, a simple definition of the word, a sentence demonstrating the meaning of the word, a short list of related

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Basic Operations, Critical Thinking, Place Value

Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Created by

Stacey Nobles

This smartboard covers the different strategies we teach for addition and subtraction. It gives several examples for each strategy using a gradual release - teacher models and then students do. Addition Strategies covered: Counting up on a hundreds chart Breaking one number apart Expanded Form Addition Counting up on a number line. Subtraction Strategies covered: Counting up/down on a number line. Breaking one number apart Expanded Form Subtraction Counting up on a number line Counting down on a

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Vocabulary

Critical Thinking: Crossword - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8

Created by

CCP Interactive

**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version** View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7VZogaRzSI In this crossword mini, 18 vocabulary words are provided with across and down clues. This mini is great for vocabulary and comprehending all the words centered around the vocabulary in the Critical Thinking lesson plan. Vocabulary Words include: anticipate, attributes, brainstorm, conclusion, consequences, critical, evaluate, facts, independent,

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Games

Patterns in Skip Counting: Student Created Book (Day 3 Smartboard)

Created by

Critical Thinking, Numbers, Writing

This is the third lesson in which students use hundred charts to analyze patterns in skip counting. They then create a Skip Counting Book using their hundred charts. This file includes a voice thread in which I explain how I teach the lesson. It also includes Spiral Review, Problem Solving, Mini Lesson, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, and Closure. Skip Counting Book by Lindsay Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Elizabeth Leigh Creations

Classifying Words Under The Big Top SMARTBOARD

Created by

This interactive SMARTBOARD lesson allows students to determine what category words will be a part of by looking at their characteristics, their similarities, and their differences. Students will decide which part of the group does not belong or what an appropriate category heading would be. All slides are self-checking so it can easily move from a teacher directed mini-lesson to additional practice in a center or independent station. Great way for students to use their critical thinking skil

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Odd vs. Even Higher Thinking

Created by

BeachyTeach

After students understand the concept of odd and even, use this SmartBoard Notebook to help students think about these numbers in a different way. There are odd and even mazes, guess my number, and a math journal entry. The "can you guess my number" game has the student paper in the attachments tab.

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Math, Numbers

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

Character Change

Created by

Adrienne DeMarco

This lesson takes your students, step-by-step through how the character changes. Students look back in the text and search for the BEST evidence to support how the character was feeling in the beginning, turning point, and how they changed at the end. -Bell Ringer: Character Traits -Objectives as I Can statements -Modeling -Collaborative Discussion -Independent Work -Pocket chart organizer -Closure: Did we...statements -Exit Ticket

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving

CCSS:

RL.3.3

, RL.3.5

, RL.3.6

, RL.4.1

, RL.4.3

...

Penguin Inquiry Lessons

Created by

Littlest Wizards

This inquiry based plan is based on the true story of a little penguin.

Subjects:

Grades:

PreK - 3rd

Types:

Creative Guidance and Counseling

Character Education Bucket Filler vs. Bucket Dipper SMARTboard

Created by

Students will learn about being a “Bucket Filler vs. Bucket Dipper”. The lesson is based on the book “How Full is you bucket”, by Tom Rath. Students will learn about filling each other’s invisible buckets when we show respect and kindness and when we are unkind to others we dip in their bucket ant it empties our own. Students identify and discuss examples of “bucket filling” and “bucket dipping” from their own lives. Also, with interactive lesson. -Smartboard

Subjects:

Character Education, Critical Thinking, School Counseling

Grades:

2nd - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Activboard Activities

Patterns in Skip Counting Full Lesson (Day 1 Smartboard)

Created by

Critical Thinking, Numbers, Writing

This lesson follows the Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) format. It guides students through analyzing patterns in skip counting by using hundred charts. I have included a voice thread that explains how I use the lesson in my classroom. This lesson also includes a Spiral Review page as well as two Problem Solving problems.

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Patterns in Skip Counting: Galloping Vs with Quiz (Day 5 Smartboard)

Created by

Basic Operations, Critical Thinking, Mental Math

This is the fifth lesson in which students analyze patterns in skip counting. This lesson review the Galloping V strategy and follows the EDI format (APK, Mini Lesson, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, and Closure). A Patterns in Skip Counting Quiz is also included. Creative Commons License Patterns in Skip Counting: Galloping Vs with Quiz (Day 5 Smartboard) by Lindsay Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Patterns in Skip Counting: Galloping Vs (Day 4 Smartboard)

Created by

Critical Thinking, Mental Math, Problem Solving

This is the fourth lesson in which students analyze patterns in skip counting. This lesson introduces students to the Galloping V strategy and follows the EDI format (APK, Mini Lesson, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, and Closure) Creative Commons License Patterns in Skip Counting: Galloping Vs (Day 4 Smartboard) by Lindsay Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types: