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Critical thinking lessons for SMART Notebook
Internet Hoaxes, Viral Emails, Viral Videos
This notebook file contains examples of true and hoax viral emails and viral videos as well as resources and guidelines for evaluating them. It is designed to give students the tools to evaluate them.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Text Features Unit, No Prep Technology Infused Learning, Smartboard & PDF
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Are you looking to try out some new instructional strategies to engage your junior learners? Try incorporating some technology! From beginners to tech savvy teachers, this unit has something for everyone! You do not need a class set of tech… you can use classroom computers, laptops, ipads and even phones! You can even plan a BYOD day! (Bring Your Own Device) OR no tech at all…you
Grades:
4th - 6th
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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
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Patterns in Skip Counting Full Lesson (Day 2 Smartboard)
This is the second lesson in which students use a hundred chart to analyze patterns in skip counting. This file includes a voice thread in which I explain how I teach the lesson. It also includes Spiral Review, Problem Solving, Mini Lesson, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, and Closure.
Analyze Patterns in Skip Counting Day 2 by Lindsay Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Patterns in Skip Counting: Student Created Book (Day 3 Smartboard)
This is the third lesson in which students use hundred charts to analyze patterns in skip counting. They then create a Skip Counting Book using their hundred charts. This file includes a voice thread in which I explain how I teach the lesson. It also includes Spiral Review, Problem Solving, Mini Lesson, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, and Closure.
Skip Counting Book by Lindsay Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Classifying Words Under The Big Top SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTBOARD lesson allows students to determine what category words will be a part of by looking at their characteristics, their similarities, and their differences. Students will decide which part of the group does not belong or what an appropriate category heading would be. All slides are self-checking so it can easily move from a teacher directed mini-lesson to additional practice in a center or independent station. Great way for students to use their critical thinking skil
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Penguin Inquiry Lessons
This inquiry based plan is based on the true story of a little penguin.
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Patterns in Skip Counting Full Lesson (Day 1 Smartboard)
This lesson follows the Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) format. It guides students through analyzing patterns in skip counting by using hundred charts. I have included a voice thread that explains how I use the lesson in my classroom. This lesson also includes a Spiral Review page as well as two Problem Solving problems.
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Discovery and Inquiry Learning Strategy SmartBoard Lesson
Want to train your students for hands-on, discovery learning? This is an incredibly fun, engaging way to introduce students to the four basic steps in inquiry learning. It uses Greg Tang's Grapes of Math patterns and poems to train students to think of a viable strategy, commit it to paper, share it with others, then reflect on their strategies and the strategies of others to revise their thinking. It is a great way to introduce and use the eight Common Core math practices needed for all effec
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 9th
Analogies
This Notebook file contains a minilesson about analogies, interactive whole class practice, partner practice and an exit ticket for assessment.
Grades:
4th - 5th
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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9/11 Tribute Lesson
This is a lesson I have put together to pay tribute to the victims and fallen heroes of 9/11. In it are actual photographs that I took when I went inside the 9/11 Museum in New York, where I spent 3 hours in an emotional place where we will never forget. You will also an informational video at the beginning (click the bottom left globe).
At the end of the slides, small group discussion questions, a journal writing entry, and a list of possible small projects are given. This lesson can be used a
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Right vs. Left, Same vs. Different, Opinion vs. Fact
This is a series of ten interactive Smartboard Slides that create lessons within the titile for children to manipulate pictures and discuss reasoning for choices made.
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Massing with Kindergarten
Use this smartboard lesson to teach the concept of mass with kindergarten students.
Grades:
PreK - K
Weather Bear
Dress the bear so that he is prepared for his day. That depends on the weather of course! Children can choose the appropriate clothing in this interactive Smart board activity. Can be used as a stand alone lesson or as a center activity. Great addition to a morning calendar routine.
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Expeditionary Learning Engage NY Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 1 grade 3
Guiding slides for the first lesson of the first unit for Expeditionary Learning Curriculum...grade 3! This lesson is all about students talking to their peers about noticings and wonderings. These SmartBoard slides are also ELL friendly with pictures and symbols.
Grades:
3rd
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