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Middle school 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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Virginia Science SOL 4.1 and 5.1 Review Questions
This resource covers the 4,1 and 5.1 Standards of Learning (SOL) for Science
Each slide in this file displays a different question that could be seen on the SOL. Students will get practice with answering questions that cover the standard below:
The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and the nature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which:
a) items such as rocks, minerals, and organisms are identified using various classification keys
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4th - 6th
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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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Grades:
4th - 8th
An Interactive SmartBoard Intro to the Digestive System for Gr. 3-6
How does my body do that? How does food get broken down and processed? What organs work together to break down and absorb nutrients? How is waste created and eliminated? The Digestive System is a fascinating system to study!
This 36 slide interactive presentation will take students through the fundamentals of the digestive system. It introduces the body as a group of systems working together, and the digestive systems as a group of organs that work together, each organ has a distinct rol
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3rd - 6th
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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
Introduction to Light - Smartboard Lesson
This 27 slide smartboard lesson gives an introduction to a Light Unit. Vocabulary includes:
-Reflection
-Refraction
-Absorption
-Prism
As well as discussion and review questions throughout the lesson.
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3rd - 6th
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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
Series Circuits- Smartboard Lesson
This 13 slide smartboard lesson introduces series and parallel circuits. Students should have a two bulbs, a battery and wires to work along with this lesson.
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3rd - 6th
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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
Scientific Investigation SOL 5.1 Kooshball Smartboard Review Game
This is a fun review game where the kids get to throw a kooshball at the SmartBoard and answer questions! On the main slide, there are multiple magnifying glasses linked to questions about scientific inquiry, the scientific method, hypotheses, and traits of a scientist. The kids toss a kooshball to try to activate a link and then answer a science question. Directions are on the first slide. I use this during the first week of school to teach/review science as inquiry and the parts of an inve
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4th - 6th
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
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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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Scientific Method Smartboard Lesson
Students learn the steps of the scientific method with a hypothetical or real lab of crickets and temperature.
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5th - 7th
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
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