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8th grade lessons for SMART Notebook
Reading Activity - My Life- Why reading is so important simulation
TEACHER DIRECTIONS
Purpose: A simulation activity that allows students to see the realize the consequences of not trying to become better at reading and writing. This activity puts students into random socioeconomic groups based on a random number on a die. This number will determine how much money they get to spend on six different areas of their life (house, location where they live, food, entertainment, transportation, and college). Students will have to make some difficult choices based
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Friendship Salad SMARTBoard Lesson
SMARTBoard lesson walking you through the process of making a friendship salad, which is a fabulous idea by Mrs. Durning at http://teacherweb.com/NY/MTA/durning
The salad is a metaphorical representation of the things we need to run a classroom-kindness, manners, nice words, etc. There is also reference to what we don't need-a rotten banana. The children will then decorate printable rotten bananas. (attached in this file)
Grades:
K - 8th
Wave Interactions - Refraction, Reflection, Diffraction & Interference
A Beginning SMART Notebook Lesson on Wave Interactions with matter including the definitions and differences between reflection, refraction, diffraction and interference. Compares how these differ in mechanical and electromagnetic waves. Includes images, linked video clips, animation and a review science song from YouTube. Must have Smart Notebook software to run.
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Grades:
5th - 9th
An introduction to major and minor tonality
A basic introduction to major and minor tonalities.Click on the scales and song samples to listen.12 song sorting activity on the last slide (click on the song # to hear the example, drag the Song # to the correct amplifier to see if you are correct!)*updated product to remove flash application
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Paraphrasing Tips and Practice SMARTBOARD
This SMARTboard lesson and activity introduces what paraphrasing is and gives the students a chance to put it into practice. Complete with tips and ways to learn to paraphrase for any report. Linked to You Tube video to help explain paraphrasing and plagiarism. Great for whole group/teacher directed lesson or center activity. Grades 4-8. MUST have SMART Notebook to download and use.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Making Thinking Visible with Patricia Polacco Mini Unit
This Mini Unit introduces 7 Making Thinking Visible thinking routines with 7 reading strategies using a variety of books by award winning author, Patricia Polacco. This is the perfect unit to introduce or review these MTV thinking strategies!
Making Thinking Visible Routines Covered:
Zoom In, Chalk Talk, Step Inside, The Explanation Game, I Used to Think...Now I Think..., Headlines, 3-2-1 Bridge
Reading Strategies Covered:
Visualizing, Making Connections, Questioning, Determining Importance,
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Calvin and Hobbes comics SmartBoard Cloze Activity Inferencing
This minilesson is very engaging for students because it uses Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, and the SmartBoard. It can be used for teaching using context clues or inferencing. The file contains comics that have words missing. The students must use the context of the comic to figure out the misssing word. The slide after that will have the original comic to check their work.
*If you do not have a SmartBoard you can still use this with a projector and print out the comics for students to w
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Grades:
1st - 9th
Rhythm Builder (SMART) - Crotchets, quavers, rests, quarter notes, eighth notes
Use this wonderful rhythm builder to create rhythms with pupils in 3/4 or 4/4 time. Drag and drop the note or rest into the grid to create a rhythm pattern. Use alongside music that you are studying to help pupils follow the beat and read a rhythm. Please note, this resource uses SMART Notebook software. This allows easy movement of notes and rests. This works best when presented in full screen mode.
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PreK - 8th
Introduction to Mystery Genre SMARTBOARD
This interactive lesson provides an introduction to the mystery genre with a link to a video. Vocabulary is included with additional explanations of the elements of mysteries. This is both a lesson and a review of mystery genre terms. Vocabulary includes alibi, detective, witness, sleuth, evidence, mystery, clue, crime, victim, suspect, and red herring. Slides with questions are self checking. Links are also provided for two videos. Great for grades 4-8.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Wind and Water Currents and their effect on Weather Patterns-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. understand that wind is the result of unequal heating of Earth’s surface as air moves from areas of high to low pressure,
2. understand how winds and the Coriolis effect influence global circulation patterns and climate,
3. explore surface and deep water currents,
4. identify some of the major water currents of the world,
5. understand how water currents affect weather.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Social Issues Reading Unit Smartboard
This product is a series of eight reading minilessons which focus on social issues in books. The Smartboard presentation follows the Reader's Workshop model and each lesson includes a connection, a teaching point, a teaching component, active engagement, and link (as well as other supplemental activities and slides). The lessons included in this product are:
1) What are Social Issues
2) Readers Evaluate How Characters are Treated
3) Issues Hide Within the Pages of Books That You Know Well
4) R
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Foreshadowing and Flashback-Interactive Lesson
Students will be able to define and identify instances of foreshadowing and flashback in a text.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio, animation, virtual manipulatives and other engaging experiences. Our Lessons are compete with a lesson plan and a companion quiz so you can quickly prepare and evaluate your learners’ progress.
To use these lessons you will need a free viewer from SMART Technologies™ called SMART Noteboo
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Guitar Introduction to Chords and Reading Chord Charts
There really isn't a lot of resources for teaching Guitar to groups. This SMART lesson goes over the basics of reading guitar chord diagrams, understanding finger numbers on the guitar, and gives an assessment with answer key.
There are 3D representative visuals of how the hand should look when playing specific chord shapes and are moveable.
There are even some clear and easy interdisciplinary relationships with Math. Principals and Administrators should love that.
Finger Numbers are in
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Weathering Erosion Deposition Landscapes Smartboard Notebook Lesson
This Smartboard Notebook presentation Lesson Plan has 42 slides on the following topics:
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, and Landscapes, Weathering, Physical Weathering, Chemical Weathering, Soil Formation, Erosion of Sediments, Erosion by Water, Velocity of Streams, Erosion by Wind, Erosion by Ice, Deposition, Deposition Factors, Sorting of Sediments, Deposition by Wind, Deposition by Gravity, Deposition by Glaciers, Continental Glaciers, Glacial Features, North American Continental Glaciatio
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Minerals Rocks Resources Smartboard Notebook Presentation Lesson Plan
This Smartboard Notebook presentation Lesson Plan has 24 slides on the following topics:
Minerals, Rocks and Resources, Minerals, Luster, Streak, Crystal Structure, Hardness, Mohs Scale of Hardness, Cleavage, Density, Rocks, Igneous Rocks, Igneous Rock Formation, Igneous Rock Classification, Sedimentary Rocks, Sedimentary Rock Characteristics, Sedimentary Rock Classification, Metamorphic Rocks, Metamorphic Rock Classification, The Rock Cycle, Natural Resources, Alternative Energy Sources
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Plant Tropism-Interactive Lesson
Students will identify and describe the four main types of plant tropism (geotropism, phototropism, hydrotropism and thigmotropism)
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio, animation, virtual manipulatives and other engaging experiences. Our Lessons are compete with a lesson plan and a companion quiz so you can quickly prepare and evaluate your learners’ progress.
To use these lessons you will need a free viewer from SMART
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Special Education Morning Meeting Template
This Morning Meeting Template allows for students to discuss their schedule, the day, date, month, year, season, weather, temperature, and what the lunch menu will be while placing it in the new My Plate food categories. This is to be used with Smart Notebook Software so that students can interactively complete the sentences by writing on the board. Includes a link for students to look up the weather on www.weather.com. Students are able to fill in a graph compiling the weather forecasts for eac
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Grades:
PreK - 12th
Interactive Area Perimeter of Parallelograms and Triangles Smartboard Notebook
Need a fun and interactive way to teach area and perimeter of parallelograms and triangles. You can start with this lesson. Students can come up to the board to draw or move squares to create a shape. Please check out my graphic organizers to go with this Smartboard notebook. File does require Notebook software.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Finding the Area & the Perimeter of Parallelograms and Triangles Bundle
Murder Mystery!! Inferences (Notebook Guide)
This notebook files guides the class along as they solve the Murder Mystery clues using inferences.
NOTEBOOK FILE ACCOMPANIES Murder Mystery!!! Inferences resource that is available for purchase in my store.
Great and fun way to have students make and understand inferences!
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
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The Water Cycle-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. describe how water cycles between each of Earth’s spheres,
2. recognize that the water cycle is driven by energy from the Sun,
3. understand that phase changes (e.g., the change from a liquid to a gas) occur at different points within the water cycle when heat energy is gained or lost,
4. understand how the water cycle purifies water, and distributes water and essential minerals to Earth’s ecosystems.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage th
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Drug Use Misuse Abuse Smartboard Notebook Presentation Lesson Plan
This Smartboard Notebook presentation Lesson Plan has 17 slides on the following topics:
Drug Use, Misuse, and Abuse, Why do Drugs Work?, Types of Drugs, Taking Drugs, Misusing and Abusing Drugs, Addiction, Cocaine, Amphetamines, Marijuana, Opiates / Narcotics, Hallucinogens, Dissociative drugs, Designer Drugs, Inhalants, Steroids
My presentations have been made to be both informative on curricular topics and visually stimulating for all students. 100% of my students prefer to receive and disc
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
From Cells to Organ Systems-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. describe the organization of multi-cellular organisms from cells to organ systems,
2. demonstrate an understanding of cell specialization.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio, animation, virtual manipulatives and other engaging experiences. Our Lessons are compete with a lesson plan and a companion quiz so you can quickly prepare and evaluate your learners’ progress.
To use these lessons you will need
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Acids & Bases, Chemistry - Lesson Presentation, Mini-Lab Experiment, Videos
This zip file contains material for a middle school science lesson on acids and bases as part of a basic chemistry unit. These materials were designed for 7th grade science in New York City.
Includes:
SMARTboard .notebook lesson presentation (12 slides) with instructions for a short lab experiment, which can be revisited over multiple days.
Presentations serve as lesson plans that guide the teacher through the entire lesson. Presentations include links to related YouTube videos to increase st
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Smartboard Teachers Edition for 7th Grade Math Teachers
Have you ever wished you could have a teachers edition book on the Smartboard? Now you can! I have created a 297 page Smartboard Lesson that basically puts your teachers edition book on the wall. This file contains practice for transformations, probability, ratios, angles triangles, and much more. The layout has been designed similar to a smartphone where the homepage acts like a navigational tool to take you to the specific skills you desire. You can be redirected to the homepage from anywhere
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Grades:
5th - 9th, Staff
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