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4th grade social studies lessons for SMART Notebook
Intro to Branches of Government (Smart Notebook)
A Smart Notebook presentation that I made for my 3rd grade class. It walks through the 3 branches of government with the kids. It also has opportunities to click on attached links to visit various government sites. I also tried to include some matching games for definitions, pictures of important government buildings, charts showing how government power "flows", and some fill in the blanks. It would be a good review (if you had already taught the 3 branches) or a good introduction.
For other f
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3rd - 5th
Non-Fiction Exploration Unit: Lessons, Slides, Activities and More!
Smart Notebook slides for Non-Fiction unit: Includes 75 slides with lessons, activities, turn and talk, resources and more!
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K - 4th
Also included in:Â Non-Fiction Unit Plans, Activities and Resources
Elements on a map
This Smart Notebook focuses on the elements of a map. MUST HAVE SMART NOTEBOOK APPLICATION TO USE THIS PRODUCT. There are 8 key terms, including title, scale, compass rose, cardinal directions, intermediate directions, contiguous, inset map and legend. It is 4 slides long with visuals for each vocab word as well as a formal definition. It is followed by two pages of interactive practice for students.
Grades:
3rd - 7th
All Around Town Map Skills Lesson SMARTBOARD
This interactive smartboard lesson provides practice is cardinal directions and reading a map. A little red car can be moved around the board to make the lesson more concrete and easier to understand. Skills begin easy by asking what street buildings are on to get students accustomed to reading the map. As you move through the lesson, questions become more difficult and higher level thinking skills are needed. Students practice east, north, south, west, cardinal directions, locations on map,
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Early Map Skills
This UNIT contains Smartboard lessons that are geared towards children who are just learning basic map skills. Some key concepts covered are the following.
Introduction to a variety of maps, Early maps, Parts of Maps, Directions (N,S,E,W), Compass Rose, Map Symbols, Map Keys, Scale, Standard and Metric Scale Measurements, Map Titles, Map Labels, Types of Maps, Globes, The Equator, Hemispheres, Landforms, Relief Maps, Product Quilts. This Unit also includes printable worksheets available in PDF
Grades:
1st - 4th
Coordinate & Mapping Skills
This is an introductory lesson about coordinate mapping. It begins by demonstrating the X and Y axis and teaching them how to read them in the correct order. Then it moves into asking the children to identify the location of certain items on the map. Lastly, it asks them to write the locations of the items on the lines on the board. Great thing about Smart, is that if a child is absent, print the pages, and send them home for homework, or great for make-up work! This lesson is aligned with the N
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3rd - 5th
Chapter 1: Discovering the Social Sciences, Social Studies Alive! Grade 4
Social Studies Alive! Chapter 1: Discovering the Social SciencesEssential Question: What do social scientists do?*Please note: This is a NOTEBOOK SMARTboard FileIt would be helpful to print this presentation out (be sure to remove the shields that cover up some slides before doing so) so kids can follow along, jot down notes and participate in the activities and brainstorming process on their own at their seats.You may edit the text in each slide. I wanted to be consistent and use a specific fon
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3rd - 5th
CHINESE NEW YEAR - GONG XI - Smartboard - Ti pitch, TimKa rhythm, Instruments
This 19 page interactive lesson covers the background behind Chinese New Year, offers colorful photos, interactive maps and explanations, as well as Dragon Dance Music and the song Gong Xi. RHYTHMS IN THE SONG ARE: ta, titi,and tim ka. MELODY IN THE SONG ARE: low la, low ti, do, re, mi, fa.
HERE IS WHAT YOU GET:
*BACKGROUND (9 pages) including colorful photos and explanations of the holiday.
**DRAGON DANCE MUSIC (2 pages) for both the younger children and older. The younger child's page has n
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K - 5th
History of Money
As an opener to my classroom economy, I teach a brief history of money. Used in a 3rd grade classroom.
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3rd - 5th
13 Colonies - Map, Text Reading (SMARTboard)
Using 2 reading strategies (visuals/graphics & summarizing), students learn about the 13 colonies in Social Studies. This SMARTboard flipchart offers two or more lessons in one file. 4th grade Social Studies (GA) and Common Core Reading/Writing standards.
Map reading is a key trait for Social Studies. Using summarization technique (tri or 3 key words), students gain understanding of how to summarize by finding key words. They then use key words to create a short summary. Supporting resour
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Three Little Pigs Cost Benefit Analysis
This is a SMARTboard lesson created to introduce Cost Benefit Analysis. The lesson uses The Three Little Pigs story to assist students. For a free cost benefit analysis worksheet look on my teachers pay teachers store.
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3rd - 5th
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
BACH - Little Fugue in G Minor- Prepare/Present TAM TI- Smartfile- Interactive
Brought to you by Kodaly Music With Mrs Perry, this gem is perfect for preparing and presenting the rhythm Tam Ti. It is also VERY friendly to teaching the concept of a fugue. Read on to see what you get:
*14 pages of material
*Portrait of JS Bach
*Background information page about JS Bach
*Interactive maps showing where Bach was from
*Photos of contemporary organ, Baroque organ, Bach's church, original manuscript
*Prepare page for Tam Ti with interactive icons. Find the new long - short symbol
Grades:
4th - 6th
{Declaration of Independence for SMART Notebook}
I hope you enjoy this short SmartBoard activity on the Declaration of Independence. This interactive file covers England's control over the colonies, the role of Thomas Jefferson, opportunities to use ipads and/or dictionaries, and even activates prior knowledge regarding the pilgrims and the original colonies.
**Covers the 3rd grade GLE: State the main purposes of the Declaration of Independence.
Happy teaching!
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2nd - 4th
Black History Month Circle Maps with linked videos
This Black History Month item is a smartboard notebook file that includes pictures and linked classroom-appropriate youtube.com videos! I've highlighted 16 important figures during Black History Month that include Obama, Goode, Robinson, and many other important figures that we can celebrate during this month! Each page is designed as a bubble map to brainstorm facts that you know or learn about each individual and the lines at the bottom are great for guided, shared, or modeled writing!
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Know Your Cardinal Directions SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson is a fun way to teach the concept of cardinal directions. It begins with a short explanation of N, E, S, W and then explains the other directions of northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest. Students are given 25 slides with practice determining the correct direction. Difficulty of questions increases as the lesson progresses. The first questions provide a compass rose and items are on a graph. Gradually the compass rose disappears and the items are
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Three Branches of Government- Smart Board lesson
This Smart file I created to use to teach my 5th grade students about the three branches of government. I used it for my formal observation lesson. The file goes along with my "Three Branches of Government" guided note sheet and text-based questions page which are also in my TpT store.
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3rd - 5th
Geography: State of the Day
This Smart Notebook document is part of a bundle in which students are given one state to focus on each day. They will record key facts about the state from this document, such as abbreviation, population, state nickname, etc., and record it in their "State of the Day" booklet (part of the bundle). They will also utilize the labeled map to color in the state on the blank map in their booklet.
Grades:
4th - 5th
Nonfiction Reading Strategies Smartboard Lesson
Students will learn what good nonfiction readers do to succeed with this interactive smartboard lesson.
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4th - 8th
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What is Geography? - Lesson Plan & Smartboard - Editable
This lesson is the first lesson of a Geography Unit in which students will begin by understanding the terms "geography" and "geographer." The unit culminates in a Document Based Project to answer: does geography determine the development of civilizations? All lessons are planned using the Workshop Model. Students are encouraged to take notes using the "Cornell Notes" setup. This encourages students to strategically place notes, questions, answers, vocabulary, and lesson summary on a daily basis.
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3rd - 6th
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SMART Celebrate Martin Luther King, JR. Day & Practice Reading Skills
This activity is a companion to the free lessons and activities found in Celebrate MLK Birthday and Practice Reading Skills document. There are instructional slides and activity slides, including Guess the Mystery American, Facts and Opinion vortex, timeline sentence arrangement, and balloon popping discussion questions. A fun way to include an important Social Studies, U.S. History topic with research based reading skills. MaryBeth Grecsek
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Theme: Independent Exercise or Companion for Journeys - 5.22 Smartboard
This Smartboard Notebook exercise is a short, original text based on Lakota Myth. It can be used as a stand alone or as a companion for the Journeys Fifth Grade selection "The Birchbark House" lesson 5.22 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) Theme is the primary concept covered, in addition to characterization and prediction. The format of the exercise is based on items found on the Smarter Balance ELA practice test.
Native American cultures often consider all female elders to be grandmothers, hen
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4th - 6th
Agriculture - Plants
This is a Smart Notebook file that forms a unit about Agriculture - Plants. It was originally made for a senior special needs class but can easily be used for a class of nearly any age or ability. It includes 7 lessons that can be taught over a week or a term.
If you do not have SMARTnotebook you can still view and use this lesson, as long as you are connected to the internet:
http://express.smarttech.com/#
Simply go to this webpage and upload the file. Some of the formatting will change, and m
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Grades:
K - 10th
Inventions SMARTBoard Lesson
This is an interactive SMARTBoard lesson meant to introduce the concept of inventions. The first few slides ask the students to use their prior knowledge to identify and define the term invention. A video is incorporated to discuss what factors make a good invention. The lesson ends with a variety of SMART activities for students to identify inventions and inventors.
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
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