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3rd grade social studies resources for ActiveInspire Flipchart and for Gifted and Talented
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The study of this book will meet the CCSS-RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words or actions).
It will also open the minds of your students to become real world problem solvers and get a glimpse into the lives of people of other cultures
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3rd - 5th
Landforms Promethean ActivInspire Flipchart Lesson
This flipchart lesson has everything you need to teach landforms to your students. It includes over 50 pages of interactivity, along with three printable pdfs (a landforms booklet, graphic organizer, and quiz) for formative assessment, reinforcement, and extra practice. Included within the flipchart are tons of voting along with graphic organizers, containers, games, and online resources. Make sure to read the page notes included by going to your notes browser. Directions are given on each page
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1st - 6th
Needs and Wants Promethean ActivInspire Flipchart Lesson
Your students will be sure to learn all about needs and wants with this colorful and interactive Promethean ActivInspire Flipchart Lesson. This flipchart contains the following: a title page, objectives, wants and needs definitions and discussion pages, a video, interactive sorting activities, and voting questions to use with or without voting devices. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
YOU MUST HAVE PROMETHEAN ACTIVINSPIRE SOFTWARE INSTALLED ON YOUR C
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1st - 4th
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World Map (Continents and Oceans) Review Game - Promethean Flipchart
This 1-page Promethean flipchart helps students learn the location of the continents and oceans through a container game. Students can drag and drop continent and ocean names to their proper locations, with incorrect answers being "kicked" back. This flipchart can easily be used as a whole-group or small-group activity.
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1st - 8th
Transition Words in Narrative Writing for PROMETHEAN Board
This lesson may be used to teach students about transition words. After defining transition words, the lesson guides students through a gradual release method ending with an exit ticket and writing prompt about a new animal at the zoo.ATTENTION: Please make sure you have ActivInspire Software before downloading this product. If you do not, this resource will not open on your computer. You may purchase it as a PowerPoint at: Writing With Transition Words Powerpoint. This resource is also availabl
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Writing Lesson Plans Bundle PROMETHEAN BOARD Version
The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal? Louisiana Guidebook grade 3
This is a flipchart for ActivInspire Promethean Boards.
The text is The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal? written by Elaine Landau. It's a guidebook text for Louisiana grade 3 teachers. It covers RI CCSS 3.1-3.7. The unit was designed for 3 weeks of study. You can edit the days of the week titles on the slides to fit your needs. Each lesson contains an interesting hook to grasp the students' attention. Some are embedded website links to videos from the History channel, PowerPoi
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3rd - 5th
Subtracting Three Digit Numbers with Regrouping for PROMETHEAN Board
Are you looking for an evaluation ready, directed lesson to help you teach subtraction with regrouping? This gradual release lesson takes students through the process of subtracting three digit numbers with regrouping. The flipchart also contains multiple problems involving borrowing across zeros because this is where kids seem to have the most difficulty. After the students complete problems to show their knowledge, they are given a word problem with a writing prompt to encourage students to ma
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Addition and Subtraction for PROMETHEAN Boards
Map Scale Activity for Promethean Board
This is an interactive map scale activity for users of Promethean boards. Students are introduced to the concept of map scale and shown an example. Then, students visit a town and use the onscreen ruler tool (found under math tools) to measure the distance between points in inches. Students convert inches to the unit found on the map scale.
Two different map scale activities are included - one with inches converting to miles, the other with inches converting to yards.
You will need Activinsp
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2nd - 3rd
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U.S. States by Region Review Game - Promethean Flipchart
This 5-page Promethean flipchart helps students learn the location of the 50 U.S. states by region through a container game. Students can drag and drop states to their proper locations, with incorrect states being "kicked" back. This flipchart can easily be used as a whole-group or small-group activity.
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3rd - 8th
All About New York State
This is a flipchart file about the state of New York. It is intended as an introduction to the state. It contains state symbols, places of interest, fun facts, regions, history, jobs, wildlife, and more.
It includes 2 wrap up activities, quizzes, worksheets, and video clips. Teacher notes and suggested uses are also included as are some answer keys. It can be modified to suit your classroom's needs.
Grades 2-5
A FLIPCHART file is a presentation created with ActivInspire, an educational lesson
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2nd - 5th
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Main Idea and Supporting Details Passages for PROMETHEAN Board
Are you wanting a way to teach main idea but all you have is a boring textbook? To involve your students in meaningful learning, use this colorful main idea flipchart in ActivInspirInspire Software that will engage your primary students in a gradual release formatted lesson.Inside you'll find:"I can" statementConnection to previous learningExplanation of "Main Idea"Teacher modelsGroup workPartner workIndependent practice on simple paragraphs.Choice of writing prompt options.ATTENTIONPlease make
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1st - 3rd
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Frindle Novel Study on PROMETHEAN Board
Are you looking for a way to teach Frindle to your students? If so, here is a complete literary unit in ActivInspire Sofware to go with the novel! Engage and challenge your students with this standards based literary unit for this novel by Andrew Clements. The Promethean Board flipchart will guide teachers through strong instruction for bright or intellectually gifted students. This colorful unit is packed with 132 pages. Inside you'll find: "I can" StatementListed StandardsIntroduction to Novel
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Frindle Novel Study Bundle for Promethean Board Software
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) League Flipchart
This flip chart is designed around a lesson on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) League. Each flip chart has information and illustrations in addition to teacher instructions in the note browser. This flip chart also includes a fun, interactive game based on the Haudenosaunee League to solidify what the students have learned. The flipchart is made on the Actvinspire program and you will need an interactive Promethean board. Teacher tested and student approved!
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3rd - 7th
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Black History Month Jeopardy Game - Promethean Activinspire Flipchart Lesson.
Your students will have fun learning all about famous African American while playing this engaging Jeopardy game. There are so many fabulous famous African Americans that not all could be covered in this Jeopardy game so here are the 25 that your students will be learning about:
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Benjamin O. Davis SR,
Sojourner Truth,
Barbara Jordan,
Garrett Morgan,
Jackie Robinson,
Guin Bluford,
Billie Holiday,
Booker T. Washington,
Fred D. Jones,
George Washinton Carver,
Co
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2nd - 6th
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Branches of United States Government Promethean ActivInspire Flipchart Lesson
This flipchart will be sure to engage your children as they learn about the three branches of the United States government. The students will learn about the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch including Congress, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, along with the Judicial Branch. This flipchart lesson includes container activities, links to outside videos and games, as well as ten pages of voting for your students. Enjoy!
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PROMETHEAN ACTIVINSPIRE SOFTWAR
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3rd - 8th
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Interactive Goods and Service Anchor Chart flip chart
Looking for a new way to teach your students about economics? Look no further! This Flip Chart gives you a fun interactive way to engage your students. Complete with key vocabulary. Don't forget to view the VIDEO!! View the FULL VIDEO here!You may also LIKE:Words Their Way Phonics Program BUNDLE Letter Recognition & Beginning SoundsInteractive Anchor CHART "The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything"Everything APPLE Bundle!!***********************************SAVE MONEY BY LEAVING FEED
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K - 3rd
Map Labeling Activities: Continents, North America, USA, Tennessee
This flipchart has 4 different activities, with answer key slides.
1) Labeling major cities in Tennessee
2) Labeling TN on the USA map, and filling in the blank for the name of our country
3) Labeling major countries/areas of North America
4) Labeling the 7 continents
Let us know if you have any questions! Enjoy! :)
~Megan and Jenn
Map Labeling Activities: Continents, North America, USA, Tennessee by Megan and Jenn in First is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDe
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1st - 3rd
The Seminole
This is a 31-page Activboard flipchart that contains information about the Seminole tribe, taught as part of the 4th grade social studies Georgia Performance Standards. The flipchart includes information and pictures depicting the Seminole's environment, food, clothing, and shelter. A graphic organizer and writing opportunity are included at the end of the lesson.
The flipchart was designed for English Language Learners and is rich in vocabulary and illustrations. However, the content is appropr
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3rd - 6th
Ruby Bridges Biography Flipchart- Black History Month
This is a flipchart I created to use on my Promethean Board. I used it during my Ruby Bridges unit. I created it to along with Black History Month which is in February.
The flipchart includes
- KWL chart
-where she was born
- questions to start class discussions
-her first days at the all white school
-pictures
-videos (embedded into the flipchart)
-a page to describe her character traits
-various facts about Ruby
It is an interactive flipchart that provides students the opportunity to learn
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2nd - 8th
What is technology? Interactive Flipchart 1-5 grades (video, click/drag, etc.)
Thank you for your interest in this file. I designed this flipchart to be used as a tool for teachers in a whole class situation or as an independent/center work. Each of the ten pages are interactive; whether it is through click and drag, click and identify, annotate or list examples of technology. The purpose of this flipchart is to get students to think of technology as something that makes life easier. Many students believe that technology must be “electric”, “plugged in”, or a “computer
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1st - 5th
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El Camino Real - ActivInspire Flipchart
El Camino Real is ideal for social studies instruction, as this book uses maps, illustrations, informational graphics, and text to describe life in the California Spanish missions and the road that connected all the missions. Developed to CCSS-ELA. Companion printable leveled reader available at TpT.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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2nd - 4th
Making Inferences for PROMETHEAN Board
Do your students have trouble making inferences from text? This standards-based flipchart lesson guides students in third through fifth grade in the art of making inferences. It also includes a funny photo with the chance to make an inference and an exit ticket. Students are engaged by being asked to make inferences from written passages. #MillieProducts Inside this complete PROMETHEAN BOARD lesson, you'll find:I Can statement and Core StandardExplanations of InferencesGradual Release Instructio
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Skills for PROMETHEAN Board
Simile Practice for Promethean Board
If you need a fun and easy way to introduce similes to your students, while teaching them how to write these, too, look no further. Students learn what a simile is and then go through a gradual release teaching method so that they may write one. I used this to teach about similes and then I pulled reading groups while other students wrote their responses to prompts.Lesson includes:I can statementListing of standardsConnection to previous learningClear explanations and examplesWhole group, small
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2nd - 4th
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Writing Dialogue For PROMETHEAN Board
This lesson was written for my evaluation in my fourth grade gifted class and includes work station suggestions after the flipchart presentation, which I ended up not including as part of my evaluation. My students are reading George Washington's Socks, so I used passages from the book to teach the rules of dialogue. The lessons includes photos of the worksheet I used which could be screen shot and reproduced on Word. Having this flipchart was like having a friend at the board reminding me of wh
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Writing Lesson Plans Bundle PROMETHEAN BOARD Version
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