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8th grade projects for SMART Notebook
Family Culture Project: Activities, Resources, Google Slides and Lessons
The Family Culture Project offers an engaging exploration of students' ancestral roots, inviting them to delve into the rich tapestry of their family histories and original countries. Through interactive activities and research, elementary and middle school participants embark on a journey of discovery, celebrating cultural diversity and fostering a deeper understanding of their heritage. With hands-on projects and presentations, students not only learn about their own backgrounds but also gain
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1st - 8th
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Lewis and Clark Expedition Postcard Lesson
This lesson is based on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Included in the Smart Notebook file is a Bell Ringer, Video Guide, Timeline, Postcard Assignment Directions, and a Postcard Model. The idea of the lesson is to utilize a video resource and timeline to help students identify the goals, accomplishments, and positive/negative experiences associated with the efforts of the Corps of Discovery from 1804-1806 and then to use that knowledge to extend their own learning by creating an original pos
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5th - 10th
Mendelian Genetics Unit: Lesson 5: Mendelian Monster Project
In the first part of this culminating genetics project, students will randomly design and illustrate their own monsters. On the final illustration, students will label both genotypes and phenotypes of their monster.
In the next two lessons, students will create punnet squares between their monster and a fellow classmate's monster to see what potential offspring would look like.
For six years, students identified this project as one of their favorites of the year.
Key words: genetics, Mende
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6th - 8th
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
A Day At the Movies
Use this fun and original Core French product with your class to get your students excited about using French. This is a Smartboard Notebook file that includes 17 slides that cover an entire unit. Many things are included in the unit - movie trailers, bus schedules, ticket and food costs and finally, an authentic task that brings it all together.
The unit is called "Le cinema". Students use a variety of sources to choose a movie (using movie trailers and movie times, incorporating the 24 hour c
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5th - 8th
Selling Colonial America
Project Based Learning (PBL) Activity in which students are placed into 13 small groups. Each group is provided one of the thirteen american colonies to create a presentation in the form of a 30-70 second commercial to their peers. Lesson comes with plan, rubric and technology (available free apps, computer web sites, etc.) description/s for student development and use.
Grades:
8th - 11th
Science Project Outline
Here is a template for helping students create a science project. It leads students through all the necessary steps in a very organized way from choosing a topic to building a display. After students complete all of the pages, they can use the information to complete their project, and be ready to submit it into the science fair!!
These are Smartboard Notebook files, but you can print them out to use as hard copies, or keep them as virtual files to be filled out on computers or iPads.
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1st - 8th
Fantasy Vacation Internet Research Project
This lesson plan was designed to increase the computer literacy and internet research skills of 7th and 8th grade English Language Learners with very little experience with computers. Students use the internet to schedule a flight, hotel, transportation and visits to attractions within a two-week time span. Students must carefully budget their expenses. Students use power point to organize their information and photos. The assignment sheet and grading rubric are within the Notebook file.
Grades:
4th - 9th
Planet Brochure Smartboard
Want to have your students research and make a planetary brochure? If so, this Smartboard will be a great guide to help your students do that. This product includes a guide explaining the expectations of the project, a rubric, and a link to a good website for students to use. Check out the preview and see if this product is for you!
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3rd - 8th
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Writer's Workshop
SMARTboard Writer's Workshop organizational tool. Students can write their names with the Notebook pens, then move names between steps of the writing process.
Steps in this interactive notebook include brainstorming, drafting, peer conference, teacher conference, editing, revise, publishing, and finished.
There is a second slide for the steps that are not currently in use to "hide."
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K - 12th
CC the Common Core Caterpillar
This is a SMART Notebook file containing resources for Bloom's Taxonomy and the Common Core. It is a diagram of CC the Common Core Caterpillar that (when clicked) goes to various resources that my grade level partner and I found. These tools and websites correlate to the Common Core and Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. The links go to sites that either are free to join, or at least to try. These have all been used in the past by teachers, but this is a fun and interactive way to find resources tha
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PreK - 12th, Staff
Character Suitcase
Use this lesson to complete a study of character traits. This lesson includes an introduction to character traits and how to isdentify them. You students will create a "suticase" using a file folder which highlights their selected character's traits. Additional resoucres and a rubric are also included.
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4th - 8th
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Great Depression Flow Chart
Causes and Effects of the Great Depression
From the Directions:
Directions: This activity is intended to get you to reflect on the events that we have already talked about as well as those to come and link them together. Why does one event cause or come about from another event? Consider each of the concepts listed below to be puzzle pieces. How do they fit together? How are these “links” connected in a single chain?
The format of the product is left up to you, but you must EXPLAIN the c
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8th - 11th
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All About Me - Math Windows
As a back to school or All About Me activity, students will create a "math window" that represents the important numbers in their lives. Numbers are everywhere. This is a great way to get them back into a math mode and get them thinking about numbers. It's also a nice way for students to explore the numbers in their worlds and display them colorfully in the classroom. It can work as a great ice-breaker as well.
As an enrichment activity, students can cover their information with post-it/sticky
Spanish Commands
This is a smart board document created to help students learn informal commands. It starts with a review and practice of affirmative informal commands and then presents negative informal commands. It has opportunities for students to figure out the pattern of negative commands on their own and then ways to practice it's use. The last slide contains a poster project which can be done as group work or individually. The poster slide has examples of phrases the students can use. However, the t
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Straw Tower STEAM Activity/Project
Includes:-editable-interactive powerpoint (smart notebook)-student packer-materials-check for understanding-student activity questions-planning space
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3rd - 8th
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Sleigh Design Christmas Project
Santa needs your help! Santa crashed his sleigh and now it's up to your students to design and construct him a new one in time for Christmas. This is a project that will take multiple lessons and therefore it is recommended that the size limit of the sleighs be no larger than a shoe box to allow storage between lessons. ll instructions and guidelines are in the notebook.
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5th - 8th
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Engineer the Tallest Tower: Opertions with Integers
This lesson includes an Engineering Design Challenge where students construct the tallest tower possible using a set of materials.
The lesson connects to operations with integers as students connect the items they used to a credit or debt.
Great for the first week of school with a built in getting to know you piece where students interview their engineering design team partner.
Additional practice with integer operations is included.
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5th - 8th
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Chuck Close Value Study
Students will create a double self-portrait, an image of themselves made with their one-of-a-kind fingerprint!
I love to do this project after I have taught value scales and allow students a chance to study value in a unique way. It is also a great project for teaching to draw and paint using the grid technique. I have done this project with grade sixes, however I provided them with a photocopy of their school photo with a grid already printed. I also give them a larger sheet of paper printed
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6th - 12th
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25 Days of Kindness Chart
This was created in smart notebook. It is calendar with 25 things that a child can do to show how to be kind for the month of December. Each square is covered by a red marker. One student can move the marker down to see what act of kindness the students will be challenged to preform that day. You can edit each daily task by clicking on the prompt and click unlock.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Present Tense Verb Lesson and Activity
This is a great way to introduce Verbs, then teach the present tense conjugation for ER, IR and RE verbs. It does not include irregular verbs. Keeping it simple for beginners of French speaking. Included is a couple of Verb search games, a Present Tense Chart that the class can build together, as well as some culminating games and activities for conjugating Present tense verbs in French.
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4th - 8th
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Persuasive Essay Research Paper Lecture
Students will get involved with their own writing after listening and interacting with this persuasive essay research paper lecture. Work through the parts of a persuasive essay through this lecture with the students.
**Student notes that go along with lecture sold separately.
**Also look for my rough draft graphic organizer.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Adjectives--acrostic poems using adjectives
Students review adjectives, cognates, and create an acrostic poem using their name and adjectives that describe themselves
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6th - 8th
Volcano Independent Research Project
This is an activity that I give students at the beginning of my volcano unit. The final product is either a song or a children's book. They have the length of the unit to complete the project. Students are given the rubric at the beginning and then you can use the same rubric to grade them at the end.
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6th - 8th
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