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8th grade problem solving basic principles resources for SMART Notebook
Hallowe'en Science Experiments/Activities
Four exciting, hands-on and engaging Hallowe'en Science experiments you can do with your class using simple and easy to find supplies. In the older grades you can even explain the Science behind the chemical and state reactions! This file also links to two videos on YouTube demonstrating the experiment.
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PreK - 8th
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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Becoming a Scientist Unit Plan
This is the first unit that I use in my sixth-grade science class. It covers classroom expectations, lab safety rules and symbols, the metric system, and includes an experiment where student compare and test their unique designs. My students use a lab notebook, so pages are meant to be cut and glued into the notebook. However, the pages can be easily completed on their own without the notebook.
This unit also includes references to the New Generation Science Standards (public draft from June 20
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4th - 8th
Visual Word Puzzles -- 10 Fun verbal brainteasers for Smartboard
Are you m1llion (one in a million)? Do you have timing ti ming (split second timing)? Then you will love these puzzles. Try these ten verbal brain teasers with your class, and they will definitely ask for more!
The hidden answer is revealed by moving the blue circle around the page.
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3rd - 12th
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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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Grades:
7th - 9th
Gravity Smartboard Lesson
This Smartboard presentation can be used to teach gravity to students in grades 4-8. The lesson includes the following:
1) A KWL chart about gravity
2) An explanation about the difference between mass and weight
3) A 10 question quiz
4) A mass and weight comparison activity
5) Notes on the difference between mass and weight
6) Pictures of instruments that measure mass and weight
7) How to calculate surface gravity on other planets
8) An activity requiring students to put the surface gravity of
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Christmast Holiday Science Experiments/Activities
Four (plus one bonus) exciting, hands-on and engaging Christmas Science experiments you can do with your class using simple and easy to find supplies. In the older grades you can even explain the Science behind the chemical and state reactions!
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Properties of Waves Smart Notebook Lesson
Teach our students about the three types of waves and a comparison of their characteristics of wavelength, frequency and amplitude while defining the types of mechanical waves and if they need a medium to travel. Complete with sound effects, embedded video clips, additional links for resources on transverse and longitudinal waves as well as review video and classroom diagram activity. As a bonus, there is a drag and drop image activity for the interaction of waves at the end for review. All r
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5th - 9th
Scientific Method Notes and Interactive Flow Chart
This 12 slide NOTEBOOK file includes:
- Link to 2-page WORD student worksheet with Key Vocabulary note-taking page and blank Scientific Method Flow chart
- Key Vocabulary with definitions: Scientific Method, Observation, Inference, Hypothesis, Experiment, Control, Independent Variable, Dependent Variable, Theory
- Colorful Interactive Flow Chart illustrating the steps for the Scientific Method - challenges students to correctly order these steps. Flow chart offers opportunity to check answe
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5th - 9th
Plants: Lesson 7: Experimental Design-- Writing Procedures
By this point, students should have the basics of their experiment underway-- their independent, control, and dependent variables.
We will then focus on writing good procedures by trying to follow directions that clearly do not work! After a jigsaw activity, students will come up with the rationale for writing a good procedure, fix poorly written procedures, and come up with rules for writing good procedures. Finally, students (in teams of 2-3) will begin writing their own. If time, students w
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6th - 8th
Riddles and Brainteasers
This is a collection of 54 riddles/brain-teasing exercises that are great for weekly warm-up activities or as a brain break activity when students are overwhelmed. Also great to use as sub plans for an unexpected absence. Each of the questions has an answer as well as an explanation of the answer when necessary.
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7th - 12th
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Experimental Design Diagram Lesson
A lesson designed to teach students how to use the experimental design diagram to design their experiments. Gives notes on how the form should be filled out. Use with the EDD word document for note taking. The final slides 3 slides are a practice using a short Mythbusters video. This can be used to assess how well students understand completing the EDD. This also reviews variables in an experiment.
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5th - 9th
Scientific Method
This notebook presentation was created for a 3rd grade lesson on the scientific method. The lesson goes over each step of the scientific method. After the mini-lesosn, students complete an experiment involving M&Ms and follow each step of the scientific method. This lesson goes with the M&M Formal Lesson Plan in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.
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K - 12th
Scientific Method Interactive Smart Notebook
This 16 slide presentation can be used to introduce the scientific method. It provides a detailed explanation of each step of the process along with interactive activities that provide reinforcement of key concepts. It provides instruction on the following terms: scientific question, purpose, research, variables, hypothesis, experimentation, analysis, inferences, observations, graphing and analyzing data, drawing conclusions.
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4th - 8th
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Scientific Method -- SMARTBoard Lesson Plans
A SmartBoard application of working on the scientific method. A excellent lesson/demonstration activity with graphic oirganizers, a flow chart of the scientific method and more.
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Simple Machines SMARTboard presentation (ramps, levers, pulleys)
This is a SMARTboard I used to teach 6th grade science units on simple machines. The focus of the the lessons is what simple machines are and how they help us to do work. I taught these lessons over a 4-5 day period.
I designed the interactive SMARTboard presentation to be used with a science notebook, where the students complete each page in their notebook. If science notebooks are not available, handouts could be generated from the presentation pages.
The presentation can be used as an entir
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Lab Safety Lesson
A lesson on lab safety skills designed for middle school. Students work together to discuss why lab safety is important and create a poster. The lesson includes an activity that allows students to move around the room and identify the lab safety equipment and its use. There are several slides of lab situations and students identify the right and wrong. Several video clips reinforcing lab safety are also embedded. The final two slides are an exit slip to assess student mastery of the lesson.
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5th - 8th
Toothpick Geometry
This is a SMART Notebook file full of geometry puzzles. There are 18 puzzles that students can solve. With each puzzle, there is a linked solution page that is animated to show the movement required for each puzzle. From the solutions pages, there is a link to get back to the next puzzle. This is a great activity to do the day after a test or right before holiday break. Enjoy!
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5th - 12th
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Plants: Lesson 6: Creating an Experimental Design
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Before conducting their own experiments on plants, students must first understand the thought processes behind experimental design.
This lesson introduces control, independent and dependent variables through a series of brainstorming activities. Using graphic organizers and students' own thoughts, we work through the design process and rationale. Students should be able to metacognate or "think aloud" why the variables are important, look for connections between them, and differentia
Grades:
6th - 8th
"States of Matter" SMART Notebook
This is a presentation SMART Notebook on the States of Matter. It covers the basic 4 states, as well, as Endothermic, Exothermic, Kinetic Theory, Boyle's law, and Charles' Law. It does have an interactive vocabulary game on the last 2 slides. It does have an accompanying Study Guide you can purchase.
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7th - 10th
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Classroom Community - Teamwork/Comm. Blindfolded Potato Head (SmartBoard)
TEACHER'S INSTRUCTIONS
GOAL: To build classroom community by having participants use communication and teamwork to successfully assemble Mrs. Potato Head blindfolded.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS:
SL 6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL 6.2 Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g
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3rd - 12th
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Thinking time (loads of cognitive reasoning slides)
I created 'Thinking Time' last year and now all the classes in my school are using it. There are over 100 slides. This is a brilliant tool to have in the class room. It can be used as an exciting early morning work, a time filler on any given day or as a way of really getting the kids into a thinking state of mind. There are slides appropriate to all ages and different cihldren will get different things from the activities. I use this every single day that I'm teaching and the children LOVE
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PreK - 12th
SMART Notebook Chemistry - Introduciton to the Gas Laws
This SMART Notebook lesson introduces the basics for Boyle's Law, Charles' Law, Gay-Lussac and Combined Gas Laws.
The lesson begins by introducing the units and conversion factors for pressure (atm, mmHg, kPa and torr), Temperature (C, K and F) and Volume (mL, L, cubic decimeters and cubic centimeters).
There are five (5) unit conversion problems for each measure.
The notebook lesson introduces the formulas and calculations for Boyle's Law, Charles' Law, Gay Lussac and Combined Gas Laws. Th
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Grades:
7th - 12th
MATH GO FOR THE SMART BOARD
IF YOUR STUDENTS LOVE POKEMON GO THEY WILL LOVE “MATH GO”.
THIS IS A SMART BOARD PROGRAM WHERE STUDENTS CAN WORK AT THEIR OWN PACE. THE STUDENTS SOLVE A VARIETY OF MATH PROBLEMS (CONVERTING MEASUREMENT, WORD PROBLEMS, AND UNDERSTANDING MATH NUMBERS). THE STUDENTS CHOOSE FROM THREE ANSWERS. IF THEY TAP ON THE CORRECT ANSWER THEY WILL BE SENT TO A SCREEN WHERE THEY CAPTURE A “MATH GO” CHARACTER. IF THEY TAP ON A WRONG ANSWER THEY WILL BE TOLD THEY ARE WRONG AND SENT BACK TO THE QUESTION AGAIN
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Grades:
5th - 9th
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