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8th grade problem solving other (social studies) resources for SMART Notebook
Central America and The Caribbean - Spanish Lesson
This Notebook file is a great introduction to the countries and capitals of Central America and Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries. Students can move around the labels of the countries and capitals, play a dice game to practice what they know, and enjoy several rap songs. Spanish sentence-starters will help students talk about where the countries are located. Also included are pictures from around Central America and flags.
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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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.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Selling Colonial America
Project Based Learning (PBL) Activity in which students are placed into 13 small groups. Each group is provided one of the thirteen american colonies to create a presentation in the form of a 30-70 second commercial to their peers. Lesson comes with plan, rubric and technology (available free apps, computer web sites, etc.) description/s for student development and use.
Grades:
8th - 11th
World Telecommunications Day - The History of Telephones
This is a Smart Notebook file that forms a lesson on World Telecommunications Day - The History of Telephones. It was originally made for a special needs class but can easily be used for a class of nearly any age or ability. It includes links to videos and a worksheet to be completed at the end to summarise the lesson.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Investigate the Boston Massacre using Common Core Skills (Smartboard)
This lesson is a hit each and every time! The students love it and I love teaching it! The smartboard file has seven slides including a bell ringer, Boston Massacre Obituary (primary source), lists of facts/background information, Paul Revere's engraving, a concluding activity, and "Notes to the Teacher.
The Notes to the Teacher slide gives step by step directions on how to complete this activity with your class.
The activity promotes class discussion (not lecture) and allows students to pra
Grades:
7th - 10th
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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.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Great Depression and the New Deal SmartBoard Notebook
This Smartboard Notebook contains everything you would need to teach the Great Depression and New Deal. This interactive notebook is great for giving notes, showing video clips, and pictures, and even having your students participate with the activities. It follows the America pathways to the Present textbook sections and information, but with a whole lot more. It has questions and answers for two sections for the book built in. I do a mini assignment on Dorothea Lange and there are pictures bui
Grades:
7th - 11th, Adult Education
Roald Dahl
This is a Smart Notebook file that forms a lesson on Roald Dahl. It was originally made for a special needs class but can easily be used for a class of nearly any age or ability. It includes links to videos and a worksheet to be completed at the end to summarise the lesson.
Grades:
2nd - 9th
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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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Minecraft Kooshball Trivia Create Game
Are you students obsessed with Minecraft? This template allows them to create trivia questions based on anything you are studying. From word problems in math, to history, to science, this template allows you and/or the students to create and be engaged. Each Minecraft character links to a new page where questions can be added in. Once a question is answered, drag the diamond sword over the linked character to show that that question is answered. Your students will love this!
Grades:
K - 10th
Plants: Lesson 6: Creating an Experimental Design
Overview:
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
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
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Westward Expansion and Native Americans Smartboard Notebook Lesson
This Smartboard Notebook Lesson contains everything needed to teach manifest destiny including; transcontinental railroad, gold rush, Oregon trail, Mexican American War, transforming the west, which includes relocating Native Americans and Trail of Tears. This lesson has plenty of pictures, information, activities, and notes for students to take. Videos and links to the internet and mini assignments for students to complete as they work through the lesson. Begins in late colonial times and ends
Grades:
7th - 11th, Adult Education
Lesson on Eminem's Mockingbird for Ukulele
Learn to play "Mockingbird" on the ukulele. Watch the rapper, Eminem, describe his feelings about being away from his daughters in his rap hit "Mockingbird." Reflect on the feelings expressed in both the original folk song and Eminem's rap hit.
The lesson includes five videos, historical information and color-coded lyric sheets to aid students in learning the song and playing it on the ukulele. Sound files are embedded on the lyric sheets, so students can just sing the song without playing an i
Grades:
5th - 9th
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
Grades:
PreK - 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
John F. Kennedy
Who was John F. Kennedy?
*Early Life
*Road to Presidency
*Family Life
*Impact
*Legacy
*Fun Facts
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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SS8H6b. Civil War Smart Notebook
an Interactive Smart Notebook Activity that engages students and will help them understand element b of SS8H6.
-videos embedded
-interactive weblinks
-interactive page links
Grades:
8th
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Progressive Era Smartboard Notebook Lesson
This lesson covers the Progressive Era and the major muckrakers involved. Pictures, information, videos, and links to the internet.
Grades:
7th - 11th
Continents and Oceans Interactive Map
The map is interactive and self correcting. When you drop the ocean or continent name in the right spot it sticks. If you are in the wrong spot it will snap back to it position in the oval. Have fun.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Women's Suffrage Movement SmartBoard Notebook lesson
This SmartBoard notebook lesson includes information about the Women's suffrage movement with pictures and links to the internet and videos. Helps bring the movement to life.
Grades:
7th - 11th, Adult Education
New Deal Smartboard Notebook Lesson
The SmartBpard Note book lesson contains information and charts about the New Deal and Roosevelt's for 100 days in office. Could be used as a supplement to my Great Depression and New Deal bigger lesson, or on its own. Also includes information and a graphic organizer for an essay on the New Deal.
Grades:
7th - 11th, Adult Education
Executive Functioning- End of the Day Routine SMART Notebook Guided Discussion
This is a guided discussion SMART Notebook lesson on making an end of the day routine. Examples are written in but I suggest you delete them and write down the steps your students come up with for their routine. I also took the list we made and created a checklist to laminate and put on my students desks.
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Grades:
K - 9th
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