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Elementary english language arts projects for SMART Notebook and for parents
Family Culture Project: Activities, Resources, Google Slides and Lessons
The Family Culture Project offers an engaging exploration of students' ancestral roots, inviting them to delve into the rich tapestry of their family histories and original countries. Through interactive activities and research, elementary and middle school participants embark on a journey of discovery, celebrating cultural diversity and fostering a deeper understanding of their heritage. With hands-on projects and presentations, students not only learn about their own backgrounds but also gain
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1st - 8th
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Family Culture Project: Slides and Lessons
The Family Culture Project offers an engaging exploration of students' ancestral roots, inviting them to delve into the rich tapestry of their family histories and original countries. Through interactive activities and research, elementary and middle school participants embark on a journey of discovery, celebrating cultural diversity and fostering a deeper understanding of their heritage. With hands-on projects and presentations, students not only learn about their own backgrounds but also gain
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1st - 5th
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Also included in:Â Family Culture Project: Slides and Resources
Letter Scramble / Boggle Game For SMARTBOARD
This game is perfect to use as a word work activity, spelling game, center activity, or as a whole class game. Divide students into two teams and have them race the clock to find as many words as they can in the jumbled puzzle. The team that finds the words that are worth the most points wins the round. Works just like Boggle. This Smartboard file contains ten game boards to keep your students playing over and over again! Enjoy!
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3rd - 6th
Pennsylvania Regions Research Project (Common Core)
Students in this activity will be in charge of their own learning and then presenting (or teaching) their research to their peers. It ties into the social studies curriculum nicely for 4th grade while also addressing 8 common core standards for language arts. Students will need to create a PowerPoint and a poster to present to the class as part of their requirements. This project can be extended for deeper research for up to two weeks.
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4th
Distinguiendo entre ficción y no ficción (grados inferiores)NotebookSlides
¿Es ficción o no ficción? ¿Cómo puedes saberlo? Les aclara a los estudiantes lo que deben esperar ver en un texto de ficción y no ficción. Úselo antes de hacer una lectura en voz alta o de introducir cualquier texto. Eche un vistazo a tu libro y obtenga del alumno el género del texto. Presentenlos con la primera diapositiva. Pregunte, ¿Este texto se parece más a ... un texto de ficción ó más a ... un texto de no ficción? Haga que los estudiantes comparen. Dependiendo del género del texto que es
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PreK - 3rd
Phonics - Long Vowel Sounds - Magic e - Interactive Whiteboard
Having trouble teaching the long vowel sounds when words are made with an e at the end of the word? eg, cake, line, rope.
Here are 35 pages of interactive activities and games using your SMART Board to help students learn and better UNDERSTAND how the long vowels sounds (a, i, o, u) are made in words, particularly when they are made with the 'magic e' at the end of the word.
Copy and paste this link into your web browser to watch a video about how to use and teach these phonetical understandin
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K - 7th
5 Senses Smartboard
This is a small Notebook file that deals with the 5 Senses. It has a graph, observation chart, silly man (that could be a cut out worksheet if printed off), and a writing prompt.
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PreK - 1st
6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)
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
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2nd - 12th
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First Summer Adapted Book
Celebrate summer with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and his friends. Have fun exporing the season of summer. Enjoy all the sensory experiences of listening to noisy bugs, feeling the heat from the sun, smelling all the wonderous scents of cookouts and more while listening to the pages read for you as you interactively click on the sentences on each page as the music plays.
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PreK - 2nd
Snowflake Bentley - A Symmetrical Adventure
In this hands-on activity, students will apply mathematical concepts to everyday life while using technology based learning to create and display discoveries based on concepts and principals of rotational symmetry. Through internet research and inquiry-based learning, students will discover just who the Snowflake Man was and his contributions to math, art, and literature.
While working in pairs, students will use the notes they take from the various website viewings and create a PowerPoint p
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4th - 6th
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I See Summer Adapted Book
The warm summer sun means time for a splashing good time. Picnics with friends and family, sand castles at the beach. I see the sun and bright blue sky. This book is adapted with Mayor Johnson symbols throughout. You are prompted to turn each page as well. It encourages taking turns as you read and fosters independence.It helps to summarize and makes reading fun.
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PreK - 2nd
African American Leaders and Inventors using Smart Board #2
African American Leaders and Inventors using Smart Board #2 focuses on ten prominent men and women including: Benjamin Banneker, Rebecca Cole, Archibald Alexander, Benjamin Bradley, Thomas L. Jennings, Edward A. Bouchet, Daniel Hale Williams, Norbert Rillieux, David N. Crosthwait, and Fredrick M. Jones. This group was born from 1731 to 1893. This is an 18 page Smart Board lesson and has fast facts on each person as well as a photo. In fact, on the first page you will see an activity to e
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2nd - 6th
The Bad Seed Goes To The Library Adapted Book
The Bad Seed is in a good mood... for once. That's because there's a really cool book at the library available for checkout. The Bad Seed reads, and reads until the book can't be read anymore. But suddenly, he gets bad news: The book must be returned to the library so another seed can enjoy it. This is an adapted book and you can hear it read to you as you click on the written pages of words and/or sentences. This book is the smart notebook version and also available as a pdf. Have fun reading a
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PreK - 2nd
Distinguishing Between Fiction and Nonfiction (Notebook Slides)
Fiction Vs. Nonfiction (Lower Grades) Is it fiction or non-fiction? How can you tell? Outlines to students what they should expect to see in a fiction and a nonfiction text. Use before doing a read-aloud or introducing any text. Do a sneak peek of your book, and direct them to the first slide which introduces the students to fiction and nonfiction by eliciting from them if the text they are about to read resembles more a fiction text or a nonfiction text. Have students compare. Depending on th
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PreK - 3rd
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Fantasy Vacation Internet Research Project
This lesson plan was designed to increase the computer literacy and internet research skills of 7th and 8th grade English Language Learners with very little experience with computers. Students use the internet to schedule a flight, hotel, transportation and visits to attractions within a two-week time span. Students must carefully budget their expenses. Students use power point to organize their information and photos. The assignment sheet and grading rubric are within the Notebook file.
Grades:
4th - 9th
Acrostic Family Poem - Smartboard
This Smartboard is for helping your students understand how to write an acrostic poem using their family's last name. These poems are great presents to parents for holidays! The Smartboard includes: an explanation of how to write the poem, examples, and other poetry activities students can do with their name.
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4th - 6th
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Writer's Workshop
SMARTboard Writer's Workshop organizational tool. Students can write their names with the Notebook pens, then move names between steps of the writing process.
Steps in this interactive notebook include brainstorming, drafting, peer conference, teacher conference, editing, revise, publishing, and finished.
There is a second slide for the steps that are not currently in use to "hide."
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K - 12th
Falling Leaves Music Poetry Composition
Fall right into composition with this cute fall-based poem used with C Pentatonic boomwhackers and quarter and eighth note rhythms. Get students right into music composition early in the year, brush up on last year's concepts and start building in new concepts. Editable to your needs. Smart board interactive.
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Engineering project for Mrs. Brown Goes to Town
Mrs. Brown Goes to Town is a story about animals who go into a farmer's house and the weight of the animals crash through the upstairs floor. This activity is a teamwork/ Engineering activity. Students are instructed to build a new house for Mrs. Brown and her animals.
Incorporates:
math- size/ shape/ weight
Reading- Mrs. Brown Goes to Town
engineering- problem solving
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1st - 3rd
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Character Suitcase
Use this lesson to complete a study of character traits. This lesson includes an introduction to character traits and how to isdentify them. You students will create a "suticase" using a file folder which highlights their selected character's traits. Additional resoucres and a rubric are also included.
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4th - 8th
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Phonics - Short Vowel Sounds - Interactive Whiteboard
Having trouble teaching the short vowel sounds?
13 pages of interactive activities and games using your SMART Board to help students learn about the a, e, i, o, u sounds in words.
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Copy and paste the link below to watch a video about how to teach and help students to understand LONG VOWEL SOUNDS using an engaging teaching tool...
http://youtu.be/rjYplePU_FU
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PreK - 5th
Parent Night - Common Core Modules (Quarter 4) + NYS Testing
Anyone presenting to parents what is going on with your classroom as well as state testing???
We have in my district. This Smart Board presentation gives a brief overview of: Module 3 (ELA) as well as Module 5, 6, 7 (Math). Also this presentation gives a brief overview of what the FORMAT of the state testing is like. I used the released questions off of Engage NY as examples of the questions students will be asked to answer.
I hope this helps you educate your districts on the Common Core Stand
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3rd
Frog and Toad Compare and Contrast
Great lesson with an activity to complete at the end. 6 pages!
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PreK - 6th
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Hero Essay Writing Project
This SmartBoard outlines a Hero Essay Writing Project. The project will be a five paragraph essay. This includes the hook, brainstorming and formatting for your students to follow in their Writer's Notebooks.
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3rd - 6th
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