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Professional development resources for SMART Notebook and for Gifted and Talented
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Disability Awareness Activities
The SMART notebook provides the user with activities for participants to engage in that simulate various learning challenges. It is appropriate for students or for adults in a professional development seminar.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Primary/Elementary) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
Grades:
K - 5th, Staff
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How to use SMARTboard Notebook Software Training Professional Development
This is a beginner introduction to the Notebook software that comes with SMARTboards. This would be helpful for those just beginning to use a SMARTboard or who have limited knowledge of the software. Learn how to create a fun welcome page, add pictures, layer objects, animate objects, and more.
Grades:
K - 6th
MEDIEVAL TIMES UNIT FOR SMART BOARD!!!! Grades 4,5,6
Medieval Times Unit
Grades 3-6
*Make your focus topic selections based on how appropriate for the grade you teach
Time Frame approx. 2-3 weeks
Document includes:
• Full unit of smart board lessons and slides to teach Medieval Times in your classroom
• Made for a 3rd grade Gifted Class, you can adapt it for topics using books of your choice OR the books I’ve suggested.
• Graphic organizers
• Format for research paper
• Format for poster
• Materials needed
• Information about
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Surviving the Applewhite Complete Unit (Smartboard)
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan complete SMART board unit. This unit includes reading response questions, 28 slides, 2 kahoots, 3 vocabulary reviews, and many smart board activities. Use with my "Surviving the Applewhites" reading response and vocabulary packet or by itself!
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Do you differentiate your instruction?
Differentiated instruction has been a big "buzz" word for a long time now. What does that really mean and how can I differentiate in my classroom? This Smartboard presentation will teach you everything you need to know about differentiating the daily instruction, as well as classwork, homework, and tests in your general education, special education, or inclusion (ICT) classroom. Your students will love a classroom where everyone can be successful!
Grades:
2nd - 8th, Staff
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Daily Brainteaser Activities - Week One
A Smart Notebook file with a daily word problem/brainteaser for your students to discuss and/or write about.
There is no right or wrong answer so all of your students will feel confident discussing their ideas. Extend your gifted and talented students.
I use this as the early morning activity as the students walk into class.
Grades:
1st - 4th
Creative Writing Prompts & Activities
This is a HUGE source of fun writing prompts, activities, and games. It's editable as a Notebook file so you can add your own! My kids LOVE these so much that I have had to promise that we'll do at least one a week!
Enjoy!
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Creative Writing Journal Topics
These colorful and thought-provoking Creative Writing journal prompts encourage all levels of students to write in ways both playful and serious. Most of the slides feature humorous or inspiring visuals. In my classes I gave the kids ten minutes to write, and afterwards we spent a few minutes sharing our entries. Many ideas for larger writing projects (stories, plays, memoirs, etc.) evolved from some of these prompts. Or course, if students wanted to write on another topic or alter the one that
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Hands-on Activity for Recognizing Patterns & Creating Equations
This Smart Board presentation walks the teacher and students through an excellent hands-on activity, using goldfish crackers and post-it notes, to work on discovering patterns. It also allows the teacher to show there are multiple ways to solve a problem as some kids will draw pictures, some will make charts, and some will find a math problems. AT the end of the lesson the class works together to create an algebraic equation from the pattern they learned. This is a fabulous intro to equations
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Using Learning Intentions and Success Criteria to Backwards Plan! (Presentation)
This Smart Notebook can be used for you, your site, or grade level professional development on Visible Learning, backwards planning, and good curriculum design practices. Notebook comes with a planning template (in files). Both are editable.
Grades:
Staff
Which Program Do I Use
This is a Smart Notebook collection of activities to teach students about Word Processor Programs, Spreadsheet Programs, etc. It includes interactive activities explaining the use of Microsoft Office programs such as, Word, Excel, Outlook, One Note, Access, PowerPoint, and Publisher. It ends with a quiz that can be used with the clickers in the Rapid Response program.
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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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
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Secondary/Adult) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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SMART Notebook Strategies: 10 + Ways to Engage Students; Interactive Learning
This instructional SMART Notebook file provides users with 10+ ways to utilize interactivity on the interactive white board to engage students. Strategies include erase to reveal, layering, and picture transparency, just to name a few. The Notebook file contains directions (on pull tabs) to create each strategy, and example of each strategy in use, and 5 opportunities to practice the strategies. This file provides a hands-on opportunity for staff development in implementing SMART Board techni
Grades:
Staff
How to Create a Master Teacher
This is a Smart Board Version of what you should expect if you hire me or any other Teacher Support Specialist. All of your new teachers should have at least an hour a week of effort put into their concerns, questions, and guidance provided by an experience Teacher Support Speicalist to ensure that she will perform at her best. She will be much more likely to be happy and stay in the profession and will be more likely to smoothly meet the needs of the students and district.
Grades:
Staff
Mythology Jeopardy
A fun interactive SMART board jeopardy game to play as a cumulative assessment at the end of greek mythology unit.
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Code Breaker Logical Thinking Smartboard Game
In this game one person (the code maker) comes up with a four color code and the others (code finders) have to guess the code. The code maker provides hints to the code finders via colored feedback. Red feedback means the finders have the right color in the right place. White feedback means the finders have the right color in the wrong place. No feedback means the finders have the wrong color completely.
The finders are given anywhere from five to seven rounds to solve the code.
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Ender's Game Unit (Smartboard)
This is a smartboard unit on the book "Ender's Game." It contains 42 slides including T-charts, compare/contrast, response questions for each chapter, 2 Venn Diagrams, 5 smart activities (including vocabulary and perception checks), 3 Kahoot links, animated gifs and activities. A great unit that is all ready to go! Use it with my Ender's Game Resources for all included worksheets and materials.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Do You Believe You Know What It Takes To Be A Teacher?
This is a 20 page 5 chapter booklet sharing my observations and experiences, as a 32 year teacher of things that you may not know fresh out of college that can make things difficult for you. It also shares a final chapter of some major rewards for those of you who stay in the teaching field.
Grades:
Staff
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Imaginative Narrative Brainstorm
This is a set of Smart board slides meant to be used as a way to introduce students to writing an imaginative narrative. This prompt is to imagine the life of a dollar bill, traveling to various owners. The slides will take them through the brainstorming process, as well as drafting paragraphs for each owner they would travel to. It also leads the students through adding details to their writing as well as facts about money to make a stronger story. This would integrate perfectly with a money
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Teamwork
Lesson planned for 16-18 year old students about the importance of the teamwork with some activities to practise.
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Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Thanksgiving Smartboard lesson
Here's a Smartboard lesson for Thanksgiving. It uses several videos from Scholastic and Discovery Ed to answer a variety of questions that first graders need to know about Thanksgiving. I also included a Jacob's Ladder activity for higher level thinking.
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Socratic Discussion - How do you feel about soda? and The Case Against Soda
Socratic Discussion 1 - Students work in small socratic discussion groups with assigned jobs and discuss an issue that applies to them. How do you feel about soda?
Follow-up with Socratic Discussion 2 - The Case Against Soda
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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